North Carolina · Public charity
Smart Start of Forsyth County
To promote equitable access to quality, comprehensive early childhood development and education in response to the needs of our community.
- $7.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $7.0M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,885
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,670,049
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 55
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $93k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Smart Start of Forsyth County funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 50 | $7.0M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $7.3M | 4% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $6.4M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $7.0M | 2% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $6.6M | 40% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $12M | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Education$22MHuman Services$20MHealth$1.2MYouth Development$881kHousing & Shelter$572kArts & Culture$458kEnvironment$240kCommunity Improvement$232kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winston Salem Forsyth County Schools | $9,071,985 | 5 | n/a |
| Childcare Network Inc | $3,954,324 | 6 | n/a |
| Winston Salem Forsyth County Schools | $3,499,710 | 1 | n/a |
| Family Services Inc | $2,841,436 | 6 | 6% |
| North Point Academy | $2,407,823 | 6 | n/a |
| Bethlehem Center Incorporated | $2,383,148 | 6 | 32% |
| Imprints Cares | $2,373,336 | 6 | 9% |
| Church Child Care Center | $2,297,144 | 6 | n/a |
| Work Family Resource Center Inc Dba Child Care Resource Center | $2,157,304 | 6 | 30% |
| La Petite Academy | $1,240,976 | 6 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winston Salem Forsyth County Schools | $9,071,985 | 5 | n/a |
| Childcare Network Inc | $3,954,324 | 6 | n/a |
| Winston Salem Forsyth County Schools | $3,499,710 | 1 | n/a |
| Family Services Inc | $2,841,436 | 6 | 6% |
| North Point Academy | $2,407,823 | 6 | n/a |
| Bethlehem Center Incorporated | $2,383,148 | 6 | 32% |
| Imprints Cares | $2,373,336 | 6 | 9% |
| Church Child Care Center | $2,297,144 | 6 | n/a |
| Work Family Resource Center Inc Dba Child Care Resource Center | $2,157,304 | 6 | 30% |
| La Petite Academy | $1,240,976 | 6 | n/a |
| Oak Summit Learning Academy LLC | $1,010,160 | 6 | n/a |
| TLC The Learning Academy | $1,007,089 | 6 | n/a |
| Quality Education Institute | $990,903 | 6 | 27% |
| First Baptist Child Development Center | $813,074 | 6 | n/a |
| June Miller Maxx KindercCollege | $791,887 | 4 | n/a |
| The Centers for Exceptional Children Inc | $729,103 | 6 | 12% |
| Waughtown Kids R Us | $642,059 | 6 | n/a |
| Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of North Carolina Inc | $620,442 | 6 | 8% |
| The Sunshine House Inc | $572,285 | 6 | n/a |
| Childtime Childcare Inc | $519,743 | 6 | n/a |
| Victoria's Academy dba Carver Educational & Development Ctr | $418,703 | 5 | n/a |
| Hy Tec of Winston Salem Inc dba A Childs World | $386,997 | 6 | n/a |
| A Childs World Hartman Plaza | $381,570 | 6 | n/a |
| The Childrens Courtyard Inc | $338,909 | 3 | n/a |
| Forsyth Tech Comm College | $332,507 | 4 | n/a |
| First Step Preschool | $309,866 | 6 | n/a |
| Carolina Medicorp Enterprises Inc | $304,006 | 6 | 1% |
| ACWLC II Inc | $269,440 | 6 | n/a |
| A Better World Learning Center | $258,052 | 6 | n/a |
| Kidz Zone Learning Center LLC | $237,445 | 6 | n/a |
| Forsyth Futures | $232,449 | 3 | 17% |
| Ephesus Learning Center | $188,930 | 6 | n/a |
| Mt Zion Baptist Church of Winston- Salem Inc | $184,436 | 6 | n/a |
| Country Club Learning and Development Center LLC | $170,503 | 5 | n/a |
| Discovering Our World Child Development Center LLC | $166,528 | 6 | n/a |
| The Learning Place CDC Inc | $166,084 | 6 | n/a |
| Step by Step Day Care Center | $153,026 | 5 | n/a |
| The Potters House for Children | $131,695 | 4 | n/a |
| The Children's Courtyard Inc | $119,226 | 2 | n/a |
| Childcare Resource Center | $111,311 | 1 | n/a |
| Lollipop Stop Child Development Center LLC | $107,112 | 3 | n/a |
| James A Coleman Learning Day Care | $81,865 | 5 | n/a |
| Phoinece Green dba Little Gifts Learning | $75,006 | 3 | n/a |
| Janis Gooding | $66,491 | 4 | n/a |
| Bunny Stop Preschool Inc | $62,590 | 1 | n/a |
| Rozi Inc dba Clemmons Learning Center | $61,792 | 3 | n/a |
| Enrich Kids Academy LLC | $58,531 | 2 | n/a |
| Constance Cannon Building Blocks | $51,138 | 2 | n/a |
| Bailey Preschool | $39,122 | 3 | n/a |
| Tiny Stars Playschool | $36,467 | 1 | n/a |
| Immanuel Baptist Day Care | $33,244 | 1 | n/a |
| Crystal Pearson DBA Great Thinkers | $32,670 | 2 | n/a |
| WSSU Child Development Center and Lab Support | $31,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Nicole Jacobs dba Kiddie Love | $30,882 | 2 | n/a |
| Little Geniuses Learning Center | $30,569 | 3 | n/a |
| Palace Learning Center | $29,919 | 2 | n/a |
| Sheila Bea Cuddling Cuties | $27,931 | 2 | n/a |
| Sunshine House | $26,560 | 1 | n/a |
| A Circle of Life Preschool | $26,480 | 3 | n/a |
| Doletta Learning Center | $23,795 | 2 | n/a |
| Hispanic League | $19,857 | 1 | 5% |
| Impact Preparatory Christian Academy | $19,116 | 1 | n/a |
| Winston-Salem State University Foundation Inc | $18,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Epiphany | $17,430 | 2 | n/a |
| Little Ones Heaven | $15,243 | 1 | n/a |
| Sherman Catherine DBA Unique Kids | $14,846 | 2 | n/a |
| Lawanda Brown Cherry Tree House | $13,995 | 1 | n/a |
| Tonyas Tiny Tots | $13,720 | 1 | n/a |
| Valerie Bowman dba Cuddle Bugs | $13,538 | 2 | n/a |
| Lillys Network | $11,912 | 1 | n/a |
| Phoinece Green Little Gifts Learning | $11,642 | 1 | n/a |
| Holy Cross Ministerio Hispano | $11,013 | 1 | n/a |
| Gloria Cole | $10,546 | 1 | n/a |
| Wanda C Westbury dba Wandas Little Wonders | $8,063 | 1 | n/a |
| Gullick Cassandra dba | $7,406 | 1 | n/a |
| Doodle Bugs Academy | $7,319 | 1 | n/a |
| Smiling Faces Childcare | $6,640 | 1 | n/a |
| M and M Safe Haven | $6,015 | 1 | n/a |
| Sandra's Family Child Care | $5,749 | 1 | n/a |
| Phoinece Green Little Ones | $5,394 | 1 | n/a |
| Little Geniuses Learning Center | $5,062 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Smart Start of Forsyth County supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
The Winston-Salem FoundationNC22.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · United Way of Forsyth County Inc · Reynolds American Foundation · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Work Family Resource Center Inc Dba Child Care Resource Center · The Kooken Family Foundation · Shallow Ford Foundation Inc · Early Years Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
About Smart Start of Forsyth County
- How much does Smart Start of Forsyth County give?
- Smart Start of Forsyth County reported 54 itemized grants totaling $6,951,665, out of $7,498,575 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 55 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Smart Start of Forsyth County fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Human Services (43%), Health (3%).
- Who are Smart Start of Forsyth County's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Winston Salem Forsyth County Schools ($9.1M), Childcare Network Inc ($4.0M), Winston Salem Forsyth County Schools ($3.5M).
- Does Smart Start of Forsyth County fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Smart Start of Forsyth County?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Winston-Salem Foundation, Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc, United Way of Forsyth County Inc.
- Where is Smart Start of Forsyth County based?
- Smart Start of Forsyth County is based in NC.
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The regranting layer
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The camps
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