· Private foundation
Strickland Family Foundation Cynthia a S Graham
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k78 grants · $212k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $418k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $514k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $304,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES INC | $255,000 |
| SUMMIT SCHOOL | $252,000 |
| MUSE | $250,000 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $184,500 |
| FORSYTH HUMANE SOCIETY | $103,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NWNC | $101,000 |
| COMMUNITY CARE CENTER | $75,000 |
| CENTER FOR A CREATIVE ECONOMY | $50,000 |
| ATRIUM HEALTH WAKE FOREST BAPTIST | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $27,500 |
| WOMEN IN MOTION OF HIGH POINT | $25,000 |
| CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| SAINT PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $415k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
112 repeat relationships — 87 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 24 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $635k 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 UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $413k · revenue +14%
- FSFAMILY SERVICES INC4× · 2022–2025 · $273k · revenue +12%
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC4× · 2022–2025 · $251k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- MMYFUTURENCINCone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +12%
- TSTRIAD STAGE INCone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -28%
- PIProject Impactone grant, 2022 · $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.
To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Greater winston-salem inc. is a leading business organization in winston- salem and forsyth county. the organization is focused on establishing winston-salem as a technology-driven economic center. greater winston-salem inc. offers…
The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
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.
Located in raleigh, nc, the spca of wake county works in over half the state of north carolina through collaborative partnerships that save pets and help people. significant activities include: decreasing the number of animals entering…
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…
Goodwill industries of central north carolina, inc.'s mission is improving lives and enriching communities through the power of work
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
The winston-salem alliance assists with identifying and responding to needed changes in the economic makeup of the winston-salem community by acting on projects that have a direct impact on the creation of jobs and the economic vitality of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Million Kids. 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 39 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
84 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 84 of the 161 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 WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Summit School Incorporated ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CENTER FOR FORSYTH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Forsyth Humane Society ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Center for Creative Economy ↗
- Who funds MIRACLES IN SIGHT ↗
- Who funds WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT CRAFTSMEN INC ↗
- Who funds MYFUTURENCINC ↗
- Who funds TRIAD STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE OF WINSTON SALEM INC ↗
- Who funds QUANTUM FUTURE GROUP ↗
- Who funds University of North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds REYNOLDA HOUSE 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.
Open a dossier: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · Reynolds Foundation 186-8803582 · Flow Foundation Inc · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Richard Wood Averill Charitable Trust aka Richard Wood Averill Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · James G Hanes Memorial Fund · The Arts Council Inc · Duke Energy 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 Strickland Family Foundation Cynthia a S Graham 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
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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