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Shallow Ford Foundation Inc

To unlock the full philanthropic potential of our communities of clemmons, lewisville, and yadkin county.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$205k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$562kPublic Safety & Disaster$524kCommunity Improvement$490kHuman Services$479kEducation$448kRecreation & Sports$187kReligion$185kArts & Culture$129kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 49 grants below total $1,205,756 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,374,258 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $168,502 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $181k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $302k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $723k
$9,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEEKENDS WITH WARRIORS INC$205,000
BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION$175,000
THE V FOUNDATION$150,000
OPERATION HELO INC$133,200
LOVE OUT LOUD$59,645
CANCER SERVICES INC$47,536
CALVERY BAPTIST CHURCH$40,000
HOTWIRE MINISTRIES INC$24,000
CLEMMONS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$16,800
FORBUSH FRIENDS MEETING INC$15,895
SURRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$13,000
FORBUSH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT$12,800
YADKIN ARTS COUNCIL$12,250
UNIVERSITY OF NC-WILMINGTON$12,170
HANDS OF HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC$12,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $729k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA: $8k → 11%CITY LIGHTS MINISTRY: $17k → 13%DIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA: $7k → 11%LOVE OUT LOUD: $25k → 15%SENIOR SERVICES INC: $13k → 15%MOUNTAIN VALLEY HOSPICE & PALLIATIV: $6k → 17%SENIOR SERVICES INC: $8k → 15%MOUNTAIN VALLEY HOSPICE: $10k → 17%LOVE OUT LOUD: $180k → 15%LOVE OUT LOUD: $66k → 15%LOVE OUT LOUD: $60k → 15%LOVE OUT LOUD: $60k → 15%LOVE OUT LOUD: $60k → 15%LOVE OUT LOUD: $20k → 15%FINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF PIEDMONT: $8k → 15%NEW HORIZONS ADULT DAY SERVICES INC: $8k → 12%NEW HORIZONS ADULT DAY SERVICES INC: $6k → 12%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CENTER: $9k → 15%YVEDDI: $15k → 12%YADKIN VALLEY ECONOMIC DEV DISTRIC: $12k → 12%TRELLIS SUPPORTIVE CARE: $6k → 15%YVEDDI: $12k → 12%HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: $5k → 15%YADKIN VALLEY ECONOMIC DEV DISTRIC: $12k → 12%YMCA OF NORTHWEST NC: $34k → 15%CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY: $23k → 15%YMCA OF NORTHWEST NC: $17k → 15%YMCA OF NORTHWEST NC: $14k → 15%YMCA OF NORTHWEST NC: $8k → 15%CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 37 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
27

Total granted

$2.1M
$263k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+37%

Still filing today

76%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $846k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationReligionArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LOVE OUT LOUD
    8× · 2018–2025 · $670k · revenue +123%
  • CS
    CANCER SERVICES INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $249k · revenue +36%
  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626)
    4× · 2018–2024 · $72k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • YC
    YADKIN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEV
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • IC
    IMPRINTS CARESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue +55%
  • YR
    YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +80%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wnc Lighthouse Inc

The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…

Human Services
2
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
3
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

4
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
5
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services
6
Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc

Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless

Housing & Shelter
7
Grace Clinic of Yadkin Valley

Provide medical care to low income and uninsured adults.

Human Services
8
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
9
Womens Resource Center of Greensboro Inc

To promote the self-reliance of women by assessing needs, providing services, and acting as a gateway to community resources; to seek solutions for unmet needs by providing strategic leadership through collaboration and partnerships within…

Human Services
10
First Choice Community Health Ctrs

Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.

Health
11
North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc

To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.

Health
12
Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce

The Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Faithhealthinnovations Inc and the most unlike its peers is Weekends With Warriors Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal-Assisted Therapy & R…Faith-Based Crisis SupportIntegrated Healthcare Syste…Professional & Trade Associ…Specialized Care & Support …Regional Community Developm…Affordable Senior HousingMaternal and Child Health S…Faith-Based Community Servi…Youth Education and Recreat…End-of-Life and Specialized…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%5%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr12%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%11%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr15%33%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr12%13%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/82
the rest of the field
15%
624/4,082

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 82 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
36/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LOVE OUT LOUD — $669,671 · Human ServicesLOVE OUT LOUDYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626) — $72,365 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Associatio…YADKIN VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC — $51,000 · Human ServicesYADKIN VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPME…+9 more — $145,490 · Human Services+9 moreWeekends With Warriors Inc — $205,000 · OtherWeekends With Warriors IncYADKIN COUNTY SCHOOLS — $146,248 · OtherYADKIN COUNTY SCHOOLSYadkin Arts Council Inc — $56,025 · OtherCLEMMONS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $50,900 · OtherSALPOINTE CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $45,000 · OtherCALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH — $40,000 · OtherLEWISVILLE CLEMMONS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $49,140 · Other+39 more — $583,263 · Other+39 moreCANCER SERVICES INC — $248,525 · HealthCANCER SERVICES INCTHE V FOUNDATION — $150,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATIONHANDS OF HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $59,000 · HealthHANDS OF HOPE MEDIC…YADKIN COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC — $51,653 · HealthYADKIN COUNTY RESCU…+5 more — $54,204 · Health+5 moreBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION — $175,000 · EnvironmentOPERATION HELO INC — $133,200 · Public Safety & DisasterFORBUSH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTINC — $28,800 · Public Safety & DisasterSMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY INC — $27,900 · EducationNORTHWESTERN REGIONAL LIBRARY — $23,500 · EducationIMPRINTS CARES — $18,500 · EducationYADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC — $18,000 · EducationSURRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 · EducationROTARY ZONES 33-34 FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationBOOKMARKS INC — $7,500 · EducationWINSTON-SALEM STREET SCHOOL — $5,425 · EducationMAGNIFY MINISTRIES INC — $48,750 · ReligionTHRESHOLD RETREAT INC — $19,000 · ReligionENGAGE WEST AFRICA INC — $10,500 · ReligionFAITHHEALTHINNOVATIONS INC — $9,000 · Religion
Human Services$938,526Other$1,175,576Health$563,382Environment$175,000Public Safety & Disaster$162,000Education$123,825Religion$87,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLOVE OUT LOUD — $669,671 over 8y, 22% of budgetCANCER SERVICES INC — $248,525 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626) — $72,365 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHANDS OF HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $59,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetYadkin Arts Council Inc — $56,025 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetYADKIN COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC — $51,653 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetYADKIN VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC — $51,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLEWISVILLE CLEMMONS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $49,140 over 3y, 16% of budgetMAGNIFY MINISTRIES INC — $48,750 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetSALPOINTE CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTER OF SURRY INC — $38,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetArts For Life — $29,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF DAVIE COUNTY — $29,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetFORBUSH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTINC — $28,800 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetSMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY INC — $27,900 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC — $27,650 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHWESTERN REGIONAL LIBRARY — $23,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC — $20,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARECENTER — $20,340 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHRESHOLD RETREAT INC — $19,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetIMPRINTS CARES — $18,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC — $18,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA — $17,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SERVICES INC — $16,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCITY LIGHTS MINISTRY — $16,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSOLUS CHRISTUS INC — $16,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNEW HOPE PREGNANCY CARE — $15,704 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHospice of Surry County Inc — $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $14,287 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA — $14,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW HORIZONS ADULT DAY SERVICES INC — $13,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSURRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $13,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHISTORIC NISSEN HOUSE INC — $11,524 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetENGAGE WEST AFRICA INC — $10,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY ZONES 33-34 FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WINSTON-SALEM RESCUE MISSION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFAITHHEALTHINNOVATIONS INC — $9,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONT — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOOKMARKS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSCHOOL HEALTH ALLIANCE FOR FORSYTH COUNTY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWinston Salem Industries for the Blind Inc — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClemmons Food Pantry Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds LOVE OUT LOUD
  • Who funds CANCER SERVICES INC
  • Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE V FOUNDATION
  • Who funds OPERATION HELO INC
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626)
  • Who funds HANDS OF HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC
  • Who funds Yadkin Arts Council Inc
  • Who funds YADKIN COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD AND EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC
  • Who funds YADKIN VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC
  • Who funds LEWISVILLE CLEMMONS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
  • Who funds MAGNIFY MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds SALPOINTE CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER OF SURRY INC
  • Who funds Arts For Life
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF DAVIE COUNTY
  • Who funds FORBUSH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTINC
  • Who funds SMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY INC
  • Who funds CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC
  • Who funds NORTHWESTERN REGIONAL LIBRARY
  • Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC
  • Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARECENTER
  • Who funds THRESHOLD RETREAT INC
  • Who funds IMPRINTS CARES
  • Who funds YADKIN RIVERKEEPER INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SERVICES INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Winston-Salem FoundationNC61.9× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · North Carolina Community Foundation · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · Reynolds Foundation 186-8803582 · United Way of Forsyth County Inc · Davie Community Foundation Inc · Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc · Richard Wood Averill Charitable Trust aka Richard Wood Averill Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Shallow Ford Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 82 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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