· Private foundation
The Bodford Family Foundation
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 $10k11 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $94k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $321k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH | $221,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (UNC) | $50,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NC GREENSBORO | $29,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION - VIRGINIANORTH CAROLINA | $15,000 |
| NC CAPITOL COMMISSION | $10,000 |
| BIKES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| UNITE GUILFORD JAIL MINISTRIES INC | $6,000 |
| GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| BILTMORE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ASHEVILLE BUNCOMBE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| WINSTON-SALEM RESCUE MISSION INC | $1,752 |
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, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% 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.
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 +16% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 8 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k 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
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +10%
NORTH RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC5× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +27%- UGUNITE GREENSBORO JAIL MINISTRY8× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- UCUNCG CAMPAIGN FOR CHAMPIONSone grant, 2021 · $600k
- CCCATALYST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $30k
- CCCAPITOL COMMISSION INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -11%
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.
To minister the good news of christianity to individuals caught in the crisis of hopelessness, poverty or chemical addictions by meeting their spiritual, physical, emotional, social, and vocational needs.
Our mission is to meet, through the power of jesus christ, the spiritual, educational, emotional, physical, social, and vocational needs of the whole person so that those who are hurting may become fully functioning members of society. the…
A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
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 improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
To enhance the quality of life for the residents and visitors of dare county and the surrounding region by promoting wellness and providing the highest quality healthcare services.
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Believing every individual has sacred value, we equip people to impact the world for good through the love of jesus christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 34 years old; the field is 11. 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 — 2% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 85 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 UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITE GREENSBORO JAIL MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds BIKES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ROAD CHURCH OF CHRIST ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds GUATEMALAN STUDENT SUPPORT GROUP ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WINSTON-SALEM RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds LENOIR COMMITTEE OF 100 INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH MYRTLE BEACH RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds MALACHI HOUSE II ↗
- Who funds LIFE CARE PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE A DIFFERENCE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Betty J and Robert P Williams Family Foundation · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · Crossroads Fellowship Foundation · The Joseph M Bryan Foundation · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Bodford 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
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.