· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 54 grants below total $6,951,665 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,498,575 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $546,910 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 $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $627k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+7 grants · $4.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WinstonSalem Forsyth County Schools | $1,670,049 |
| Family Services Head Start | $786,972 |
| Work Family Resource Center | $429,251 |
| North Point Academy | $388,804 |
| Bethlehem Community Center Inc | $335,771 |
| Childcare Network Lewisville | $297,502 |
| Church Child Care Plus | $269,511 |
| IMPRINTS Cares | $234,165 |
| Child Care Network Reynolds Road | $216,053 |
| La Petite Academy Inc | $214,642 |
| June Miller dba | $191,867 |
| Oak Summit Learning Academy LLC | $164,153 |
| Quality Education Institute Inc | $143,630 |
| First Baptist Child Development Center | $134,116 |
| TLC The Learning Academy | $126,850 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $5.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
56 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FSFAMILY SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +16%
- BCBethlehem Center Incorporated6× · 2020–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +25% · 32% of their budget
- ICIMPRINTS CARES6× · 2020–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +55%
Funded once
- WSWinston Salem Forsyth County Schoolsone grant, 2020 · $3.5M
- CRChildcare Resource Centerone grant, 2021 · $111k
- BSBunny Stop Preschool Incone grant, 2020 · $63k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
When they have challenges, we connect all children and their families to programs and resources that provide opportunities and hope.
The Guilford County Partnership for Children is a local non-profit strategically directing Smart Start and NC Pre-K funding to ensure equitable access to high quality childcare, professional development for early childhood educators and…
Act as an organization to provide education, information distribution, training, newsletters, fact sheets, and other materials to educate communities about the importance of high quality childhood education, especially for infants and…
To provide parenting and early childhood programs that nurture children, empower parents, and strengthen whole families to flourish by significantly improving school readiness and economic mobility. We start early through home visiting,…
To promote equitable access to quality, comprehensive early childhood development and education in response to the needs of our community.
Our mission is to prepare the children of our community for the road ahead. We take a whole-child approach that blends personalized care plans with physical play, social development, and academic readiness.
Charlotte Bilingual Preschool (CltBP) prepares Spanish-speaking children for success in school and life by providing superior dual language, multi-cultural early childhood education.
The Small People Child Development Center is organized to provide early childhood education, care, and developmental services to infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children. The organization supports working families by offering a safe,…
Foundations Child Care Center is committed to providing exceptional early childhood educational care in a safe and loving environment for children (ages 0 - 12 years) to help them develop to their fullest potential: physically,…
Our mission is to provide the best quality education and care for children and to become a national model for early childhood education. in addition to providing a healthy learning environment for children, the center also provides an…
Family Focus partners with families to provide high-quality care and education to meet the individual needs of our children. They are committed to preparing children for future success through credentialed staff, nurturing environments and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Centers for Exceptional Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hispanic League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 81 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Bethlehem Center Incorporated ↗
- Who funds IMPRINTS CARES ↗
- Who funds WORK FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC DBA CHILD CARE RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Quality Education Institute ↗
- Who funds THE CENTERS FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds EXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA MEDICORP ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds Forsyth Futures ↗
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.
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
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 Smart Start of Forsyth County 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.
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.