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Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$2.6MArts & Culture$2.0MHuman Services$1.6MHealth$1.2MHousing & Shelter$1.1MFood & Nutrition$666kEnvironment$445kCivil Rights$300kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $464k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+2 grants · $750k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNC SCHOOL OF THE ARTS$500,000
SECCA$250,000
SENIOR SERVICES$100,000
SUMMIT SCHOOL$100,000
MUSE$83,334
YMCA OF NORTHWEST NC$80,000
PIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY$75,000
Individual grant recipient$75,000
FAMILY SERVICES INC$70,000
HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE$60,000
MIRACLES IN SIGHT$60,000
WINSTON NET$50,000
IMPRINT CARES$50,000
NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$50,000
ATRIUM HEALTH WAKE FOREST BAPTIST$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WESTERN YOUTH NETWORK: $50k → 11%HAYWOOD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $10k → 12%WESTERN YOUTH NETWORK: $50k → 21%WESTERN YOUTH NETWORK: $50k → 21%YOUTH COLLABORATIVE INC: $10k → 13%SENIOR SERVICES: $200k → 15%YOUTH COLLABORATIVE: $8k → 13%YOUTH COLLABORATIVE INC: $5k → 13%Senior Services Inc: $100k → 15%SENIOR SERVICES: $100k → 15%SENIOR SERVICES: $100k → 15%HORIZONS RESIDENTIAL CARE CENTER: $50k → 15%HORIZONS RESIDENTIAL CARE CENTER: $10k → 15%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CENTER: $120k → 15%BETHESDA CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS: $100k → 15%YMCA OF NORTHWEST NC: $80k → 15%YMCA OF NW NC: $80k → 15%FAMILY SERVICES INC: $70k → 15%FAMILY SERVICES INC: $70k → 15%FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30k → 15%FAMILY SERVICES: $30k → 15%BETHESDA CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS: $26k → 15%YWCA OF WINSTON-SALEM & FORSYTH COUNTY: $25k → 15%WINSTON NET: $25k → 15%YWCA OF WINSTON-SALEM & FORSYTH COUNTY: $25k → 15%GREENEST: $10k → 15%GREENEST: $8k → 15%PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.2M · 52 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

52 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
76

Total granted

$8.2M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+13%

Still filing today

71%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $475k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

  • SENIOR SERVICES INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $500k · revenue +43%
  • LF
    LIBFORALL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +33%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICES INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $200k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • SF
    SECCA Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +33% · 30% of their budget
  • UC
    UNC CHAPEL HILL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • WS
    WINSTON SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $150k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Greater Winston-Salem Development Corp

To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.

Community Improvement
2
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
3
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

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4
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services
5
Winston Starts

The specific purposes for which the corporation is organized are (i) to create long-term job growth and economic vitality in and around winston-salem, north carolina, and accordingly benefit the winston-salem area and its citizens as a…

Community Improvement
6
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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7
Wireless Research Center of North Carolina

The Wireless Research Center is an independent, private nonprofit research center dedicated to applied research and engineering. Located in North Carolina's Research Triangle region, the WRC helps clients from around the world develop…

Science & Tech
8
North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc

To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.

Health
9
The Charlotte Center for the Humanities Inc

The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.

Human Services
10
North Carolina Council On Economic Education Inc

The nccee provides economic and financial education for educators and students throughout north carolina. this mission is accomplished through standards based workshops and a variety of resources for educators, academic competitions for…

Social Science
11
Caldwell Arts Council Inc

To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc

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12
The Children's Center of Western North Carolina

At The Childrens Center of Western North Carolina (TCC), we are dedicated to creating an inclusive, playful, and nuturing environment where children can grow and learn together in acceptance of one another.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Winston-Salem Inc and the most unlike its peers is James G Hanes Memorial Fund. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPublic Charter SchoolsAffordable Senior HousingHigh School Booster ClubsNorth Carolina Policy Advoc…Pet Rescue and AdoptionUniversity Support Organiza…Integrated Healthcare Syste…Student Support and College…Youth Sports ProgramsEarly Childhood Special Nee…Family Philanthropic Founda…Professional Certification …Food Assistance & Hunger Re…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%2%<5yr17%11%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr14%19%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr10%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%2%<5yr17%4%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr14%14%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr10%50%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/100
the rest of the field
15%
1,782/12,137

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.

04the grantee network

97 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. 97 of the 151 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
96/97
Grantees still filing
47/97
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNC SCHOOL OF THE ARTS — $750,000 · OtherUNC SCHOOL OF THE ARTSSECCA — $750,000 · OtherSECCAUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $680,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $400,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKMUSE — $350,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $225,000 · Other+86 more — $3,464,639 · Other+86 moreSENIOR SERVICES INC — $500,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVICES…FAMILY SERVICES INC — $200,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES…Young Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626) — $160,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Chr…The Western Youth Network Inc — $150,000 · Human ServicesThe Western You…Bethesda Center for the Homesless Inc — $126,000 · Human ServicesBethesda Center…HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARECENTER — $120,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE & PALLI…WinstonNet Inc — $75,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS RESIDENTIAL CARE CENTER INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WINSTON-SALEM AND FORSYTH COUNTY — $50,000 · Human Services+4 more — $56,000 · Human ServicesLIBFORALL FOUNDATION — $300,000 · EducationLIBFORALL …The Summit School Incorporated — $200,000 · EducationThe Summit…NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC — $150,000 · EducationNORTH CARO…FORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · EducationFORSYTH TE…IMPRINTS CARES — $100,000 · EducationIMPRINTS C…BOOKMARKS INC — $75,000 · EducationBOOKMARKS …+5 more — $62,499 · Education+5 moreKALEIDEUM — $290,000 · Arts & CultureKALEIDEUMSECCA Foundation — $250,000 · Arts & CultureSECCA Fou…REYNOLDA HOUSE INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureREYNOLDA …RIVERRUN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL — $45,000 · Arts & CultureDowntown Winston-Salem Community Cinema — $35,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $141,260 · Arts & Culture+12 moreCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN — $250,000 · HealthADDICTION RECOVERY CARE ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 · HealthSt Lukes Hospital — $35,000 · HealthTHE CENTERS FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN INC — $30,000 · HealthFORSYTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Health+5 more — $60,000 · HealthPIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY — $175,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA — $100,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $100,000 · EnvironmentSTARWORKS — $50,000 · EnvironmentThe Winston-Salem Foundation — $150,000 · PhilanthropyMUSE WINSTON-SALEM — $100,000 · PhilanthropyAlleghany Memorial Hospital Foundation INC — $80,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$6,619,639Human Services$1,497,000Education$1,012,499Arts & Culture$911,260Health$500,000Environment$425,000Philanthropy$340,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC — $500,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetLIBFORALL FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetKALEIDEUM — $290,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN — $250,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSECCA Foundation — $250,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Summit School Incorporated — $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMIRACLES IN SIGHT — $180,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY — $175,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626) — $160,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Western Youth Network Inc — $150,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC — $150,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetREYNOLDA HOUSE INC — $150,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetThe Winston-Salem Foundation — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBethesda Center for the Homesless Inc — $126,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetFORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARECENTER — $120,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA — $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetIMPRINTS CARES — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetADDICTION RECOVERY CARE ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSE WINSTON-SALEM — $100,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetA BED AND A BOOK — $85,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetAlleghany Memorial Hospital Foundation INC — $80,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetBOOKMARKS INC — $75,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWinstonNet Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE WINSTON-SALEM RESCUE MISSION INC — $70,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHORIZONS RESIDENTIAL CARE CENTER INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetForsyth Humane Society — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJAMES G HANES MEMORIAL FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WINSTON-SALEM AND FORSYTH COUNTY — $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ARTS COUNCIL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTARWORKS — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHOPE OF WINSTON SALEM INC — $50,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetPOWER CROSS — $45,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRIVERRUN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL — $45,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetBethlehem Center Incorporated — $40,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDowntown Winston-Salem Community Cinema — $35,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSt Lukes Hospital — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTriad Cultural Arts Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetHenderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CENTERS FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetECHO MINISTRY — $30,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetANIMAL ADOPTION & RESCUE FOUNDATION OF WINSTON-SALEM INC — $30,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCITY WITH DWELLINGS COMMUNITY FIRST INITIATIVE — $30,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Winston-Salem Fou…Reynolds American Fou…Reynolds Foundation 1…The Cannon Foundation…James G Hanes Memoria…Strickland Family Fou…Forsyth Memorial Hosp…Z Smith Reynolds Foun…Foundation for the Ca…Twin City Development…The Arts Council IncFlow Foundation Inc
The Winston-Salem FoundationNC102.2× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · Reynolds Foundation 186-8803582 · The Cannon Foundation Inc · James G Hanes Memorial Fund · Strickland Family Foundation Cynthia a S Graham · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Twin City Development Foundation · The Arts Council Inc · Flow 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 John W and Anna H Hanes 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    41report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 151 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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