· Private foundation
Ta Blue Bell Foundation Main
Its FY2022 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 FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k8 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $117k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KONTOOR BRANDS FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| WILSON FAMILY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC | $300,000 |
| MARTHA OBRYAN CENTER INC | $250,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $66,994 |
| COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA INC | $50,000 |
| A SIMPLE GESTURE GREENSBORO INC | $30,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NO | $30,000 |
| GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBO | $30,000 |
| COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FOR PAGE CO | $25,000 |
| LIVING WATER OF GREENSBORO INC | $25,000 |
| PAGE COUNTY TECHNICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $405k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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 +49% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- MOMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC2× · 2020–2022 · $275k · revenue +45%
- BCBARTON COLLEGE2× · 2020–2021 · $126k · revenue +6%
- GUGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY2× · 2020–2022 · $65k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- UEUNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue +355%
- NCNORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue -20%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OFone grant, 2020 · $60k
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.
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.
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.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
The mission of wingate university is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.
Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kontoor Brands Foundation. 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 44 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) — 0% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 72 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 UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kontoor Brands Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds The Wilson Area Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BARTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA ↗
- Who funds A SIMPLE GESTURE - GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FOR PAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING SOLUTIONS OF GUILFORD INC ↗
- Who funds PAGE ONE OF PAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TRIAD INC ↗
- Who funds Wilson Youth United Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds Whirlidogs Training Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP HALL INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TRIAD HONOR FLIGHT ↗
- Who funds SKYLINE CAP ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA 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: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Labcorp Charitable Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · The Joseph M Bryan Foundation · The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I · The Cemala Foundation 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 Ta Blue Bell Foundation Main 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.