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Ta Blue Bell Foundation Main

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2022
13
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Education$2.6MPhilanthropy$1.4MHuman Services$807kFood & Nutrition$135kHousing & Shelter$41kHealth$35kYouth Development$34kArts & Culture$29kOther$0
02FY2022 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $205k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $117k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
$30,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NO$30,000
A SIMPLE GESTURE GREENSBORO INC$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WILSON FAMILY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC: $300k → 20%INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $20k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NC: $20k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $35k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $30k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
IN
NJ
KY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
OK
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$937k · 13 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
49

Total granted

$937k
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+51%

Still filing today

62%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MO
    MARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC
    2× · 2020–2022 · $275k · revenue +45%
  • BC
    BARTON COLLEGE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $126k · revenue +6%
  • GU
    GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY
    2× · 2020–2022 · $65k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • UE
    UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue +355%
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue -20%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF
    one grant, 2020 · $60k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Greensboro College

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.

Education
2
Furman University

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.

Education
3
Greenville College

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.

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
North Greenville University

North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.

Education
6
Columbia College

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.

Education
7
Gardner-Webb University

The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.

Education
8
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
9
Wingate University

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.

Education
10
Brevard College Corporation

Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.

Education
11
Lehigh University

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…

Education
12
Wofford College

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 72 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
43/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000,000 · EducationUNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INCNORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INCBARTON COLLEGE: $125,500 · Education+16 more: $41,084 · EducationKontoor Brands Foundation: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyKontoor Brands FoundationUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $340,750 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBO…COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $30,000 · PhilanthropyThe Wilson Area Young Men's Christian Association: $300,000 · Human ServicesGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $65,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE SALVATION ARMY: $66,994 · OtherTHE SALVAT…SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF: $60,000 · OtherSECOND HAR…LORD FAIRFAX COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $50,000 · OtherLORD FAIRF…YMCA OF GREENSBORO: $40,000 · OtherYMCA OF GR…LIVING WATER OF GREENSBORO INC: $25,000 · OtherPAGE COUNTY TECHNICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherCOUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FOR PAGE COUNTY INC: $25,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA: $19,375 · Other+31 more: $177,863 · Other+31 moreMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $275,000 · ReligionA SIMPLE GESTURE - GREENSBORO INC: $45,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureGREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Education$2,516,584Philanthropy$1,420,750Human Services$405,000Other$489,232Religion$275,000Food & Nutrition$75,000Arts & Culture$27,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetKontoor Brands Foundation: $1,000,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $340,750 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Wilson Area Young Men's Christian Association: $300,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMARTHA O'BRYAN CENTER INC: $275,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBARTON COLLEGE: $125,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $65,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA SIMPLE GESTURE - GREENSBORO INC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FOR PAGE COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING SOLUTIONS OF GUILFORD INC: $15,823 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPAGE ONE OF PAGE COUNTY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TRIAD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWilson Youth United Inc: $14,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWhirlidogs Training Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFELLOWSHIP HALL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALDWELL ACADEMY: $7,734 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRIAD HONOR FLIGHT: $6,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetNURTURE THE NEXT FKA PREVENT CHILD ABUSE TENNESSEE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOld North State Council Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSKYLINE CAP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUMAR SERVICES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT RETURN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWabash College: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDePauw University: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMIT SCHOOL INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Lincoln Financial Fou…Amg Charitable Gift F…Tannenbaum-Sternberge…Community Foundation …Foundation for the Ca…The Labcorp Charitabl…Truist Foundation IncWell-Spring Retiremen…The Joseph M Bryan Fo…The Mary Lynn Richard…The Edward M Armfield…The Cemala Foundation…
Lincoln Financial Foundation IncPA28.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ta Blue Bell Foundation Main funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ta Blue Bell Foundation Main. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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