· Private foundation
The Armstrong Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k51 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUKE UNIVERSITY - CANCER INSTITUTE | $34,550 |
| DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH (MC 0112) VIRGINIA TECH | $19,030 |
| ELON UNIVERSITY | $17,500 |
| GLADES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $9,000 |
| UNCG ADVANCEMENT SERVICES | $8,700 |
| JESUIT RETREAT HOUSE | $7,500 |
| INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS | $5,000 |
| COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF UVA | $5,000 |
| PLACE OF HOPE | $4,000 |
| HAWKEN SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $3,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $3,000 |
| GUILFORD COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISC | $2,000 |
| SAINT LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 9 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
Elon University5× · 2021–2025 · $86k · revenue +25%- TITHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS5× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +21%
- HSHAWKEN SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- PHPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -51%
- SCSari Centerone grant, 2021 · $3k
- EFEasterseals Florida Treasure Coast Early Stepsone grant, 2021 · $2k
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.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
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.
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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…
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Rogers Free Library Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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 15% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 86 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 Elon University ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS ↗
- Who funds HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds BOCA RATON POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds BOCA HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BEACON OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Greensboro Independent School Corp ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM FOUNDRY ↗
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: Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Harry D Forsyth Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Armstrong Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 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.