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The Allendale Fund
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREENSBORO | $15,000 |
| BUFFALO PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $7,000 |
| GREENSBORO DAY SCHOOL | $5,500 |
| UNC ARTS & SCIENCES FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $2,500 |
| CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| BACKPACK BEGINNINGS | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| CONE HEALTH | $1,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- CHChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +51%
- AFAUTHORACARE FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +123%
- TNTHE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER3× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +210%
Funded once
- KFKiawanis Foundation for Greensboro Science Centerone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $2k
- ROREACH OUT FIRST INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +199%
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.
Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Goodwill builds pathways that help people pursue the life they want to achieve. goodwill exists to help people see possibilities, seize opportunities, and prosper. we partner with individuals to identify their strengths, interests and…
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
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.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Service of the Piedmont Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 20% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 38 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds Greensboro Independent School Corp ↗
- Who funds AUTHORACARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds Grandfather Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARNABAS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AUTHORACARE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds I AM 247 ↗
- Who funds Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds Chapel by the Lake 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 · Hillsdale Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · M Haley Foundation Inc · Hagan Family Fund · Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation · Foundation for the Carolinas
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 The Allendale Fund 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.
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