· Private foundation
Sue & John Irvin Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GRE | $50,000 |
| WILD TRAILS NC | $20,000 |
| TOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL INC | $20,000 |
| BACK PACK BEGINNINGS | $5,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF GREENSBORO | $5,000 |
| MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITY HEALTH | $5,000 |
| ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER GREENSBORO | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NW NC | $5,000 |
| GUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| RECONSIDERED GOODS | $5,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
The greenville center for creative arts exists to enrich the cultural fabric of the communities we serve by providing a nurturing environment for art-education, appreciation and enjoyment, and by establishing a lasting legacy in the visual…
The mission of green hill center for nc art is to promote the visual arts of north carolina by engaging a broad community of artists, adults and children through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs while providing a platform for…
To serve as greensboro, north carolina's principal economic and community development organization. our goal is to strategically develop a vibrant community that creates, expands, and attracts business while advancing the quality of life…
Together with its diverse communities, the organization collects objects and stories, connects generations, and challenges people to explore our city's past, present and future. the museum sparks wonder through bold exhibitions and…
Goodwill industries of central north carolina, inc.'s mission is improving lives and enriching communities through the power of work
Greensboro opera is a community-based company dedicated to fostering the growth of opera and to presenting professional productions of the highest artistic caliber for the enjoyment, education, and enrichment of the triad region of north…
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
The greensboro children's museum engages all children and families in hands-on, fun, learning experiences which contribute to their growth and development through play, creation, outdoor exploration, and stem activities.
Promoting and enhancing the economic growth and development of greenville county south carolina; gadc was formed by greenville county council.
Support emerging artists of all ages through education programs, exhibition opportunities, and community outreach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Arts Council of Greensboro Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reconsidered Goods Inc. 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 12 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds WILD TAILS NC INC ↗
- Who funds TOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RECONSIDERED GOODS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC 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: Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Hillsdale Fund · Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation · Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community Health Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Allendale Fund · Hagan Family Fund · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I · Weaver Foundation Inc · The Cemala Foundation Inc · The VF 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 Sue & John Irvin 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.