· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
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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…
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Smart Start of Forsyth County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Smart Start of Forsyth County. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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