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Stephen Knight Pond Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $345k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC | $345,000 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $21,400 |
| UNITED WAY OF HIGH POINT NC | $10,000 |
| KING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION UNITED STATES INC | $10,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC | $5,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $350 |
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 (FY17–24, $823k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
24 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- HPHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $762k · revenue +89%
- COCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2020 · $110k · revenue +110%
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $85k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- HPHIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +112%
- FCFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $25k
- MVMalone Veterans Field Foundationone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.
To support and carry out the functions and purposes of wrmc hospital operating corporation (dba atrium health wake forest baptist wilkes medical center) to enhance the delivery of quality health care within the organization's region.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
See schedule oto render aid and assistance to wake forest university health sciences (wfuhs) and north carolina baptist hospital (ncbh) in their pursuits by approved methods for the promotion of medical science and medical knowledge, the…
Queens university of charlotte provides transformative educational experiences that nurture intellectual curiosity, promote global understanding, encourage ethical living and prepare individuals for purposeful and fulfilling lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is High Point Regional Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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.
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 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
30 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. 30 of the 47 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 AMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SERVANTS OF JESUS AND MARY INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES LUGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THEHOPELINE INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds Franklin County Historical and Museum Society ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE VALLEY CHILDRENS CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds REYNOLDA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WATCH HILL LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ASSOC ↗
- Who funds THE JESSE HELMS CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AABROO ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE NORTH COUNTRY ↗
- Who funds High Point Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ABC OF NC FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Brayton Family Charitable Foundation · Flow Foundation Inc · Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Stephen Knight Pond Foundation 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.
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