· Private foundation
The Anonymous Fund
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONE HEALTH PHILANTHROPY | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO | $100,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $100,000 |
| EASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL | $50,000 |
| THE SANTA FE OPERA | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS FOR AN EARLIER BREAST CANCER TEST INC | $10,000 |
| GREENHILL CENTER FOR NC ART | $10,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION | $10,000 |
| THE GREENSBORO SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| SANTE FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL | $5,000 |
| LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| DIOCESE OF CHARLOTTE | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
46 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 4 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k 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
- TSTHE SANTA FE OPERA6× · 2019–2024 · $424k · revenue +15%
- EMEASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $255k · revenue +8%
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $140k · revenue +155%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NC GREENSBOROone grant, 2021 · $100k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBOROone grant, 2019 · $100k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NC ASHEVILLEone grant, 2021 · $50k
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 opera is a community-based company dedicated to fostering the growth of opera and to presenting professional productions of the highest artistic caliber for the enjoyment, education, and enrichment of the triad region of north…
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Together with its diverse communities, the organization collects objects and stories, connects generations, and challenges people to explore our city's past, present and future. the museum sparks wonder through bold exhibitions and…
To enrich and connect individuals in the greater raleigh community through intimate and exceptional chamber music experiences. we are committed to presenting world class artists performing music of the highest caliber, providing…
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
The arts council connects our communities, embraces diversity, promotes individual creativity, advances economic development, and fosters lifelong learning through the arts.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of the center is inspiring curiosity and connecting communities through science and conservation. we accomplish this by providing ever-evolving experiences where exploration and imagination intersect, igniting a lifelong…
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
Provide relevant educational and entertaining opportunities within the region that exceed customer expectations, while preserving our community's vibrant cultural history.
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
The greenville symphony is dedicated to providing educational and cultural opportunities for the citizens of greenville and surrounding communities through the presentation of live orchestral music.
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 Richard Hampton Jenrette 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 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 73 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 THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS FOR AN EARLIER BREAST CANCER TEST INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds GREEN HILL CENTER FOR NORTH CAROLINA ART ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD ↗
- Who funds THE TRIAD HEALTH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION GREENSBORO ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NEW GARDEN FRIENDS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD GREEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRIAD STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
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 · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · Dawn S Chaney Foundation · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I · Hillsdale Fund · Griffin Family Foundation · The Hummel Family Fund Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Joseph M Bryan 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 The Anonymous 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.
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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.