· Private foundation
Ta Thomas Austin Finch Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $407k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THOMASVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC | $96,000 |
| NOVANT HEALTH THOMASVILLE MEDICAL | $87,000 |
| WESTCHESTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $64,990 |
| MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $55,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $54,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NC AT CHAPEL HILL | $45,000 |
| Thomasville Hospital Foundation | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA | $18,000 |
| TOM A FINCH YMCA | $16,392 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $9,000 |
| UNC G | $9,000 |
| Johnson & Wales University | $9,000 |
| The University of Tennessee | $9,000 |
| APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $9,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- TCTHOMASVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $476k · revenue +92%
- WCWestchester Country Day School Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $461k · revenue +6%
- WFWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- TCTHOMASVILLE CHAMBER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +552%
- TRThomasville Rotary Clubone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
The mission of wilmington college is to educate, inspire and prepare each student for a life of service and success. to fulfill that mission, wilmington college provides a high-quality undergraduate and graduate educational environment…
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.
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
Building on a rich Presbyterian heritage and a pioneering spirit, Tusculum University provides an active and experiential education within a caring Christian environment to inspire civic engagement, enrich personal lives, and equip…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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.
William peace university is a private four-year university in downtown raleigh, north carolina. the mission of the university is to prepare students for careers in the organizations of tomorrow. rooted in the liberal arts tradition, the…
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…
Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lenoir-Rhyne University and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 28 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 THOMASVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Westchester Country Day School Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THOMASVILLE NC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THOMASVILLE CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIDSON-DAVIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF DAVIDSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT 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: Novant Health Inc · Reynolds American Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ta Thomas Austin Finch 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.