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The Bodford Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$5.9MEducation$975kReligion$297kHuman Services$61kCrime & Legal$56kPublic Benefit$52kInternational$40kPhilanthropy$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $94k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $321k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$6,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,000,000
CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH$221,000
THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (UNC)$50,000
Individual grant recipient$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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%EAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%MAKE A DIFFERENCE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $1k → 16%MAKE A DIFFERENCE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $500 → 16%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF GREENSBORO: $1k → 16%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF GREENSBORO: $1k → 16%MAKE A DIFFERANCE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $500 → 16%MAKE A DIFFERANCE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $500 → 16%MAKE A DIFFERANCE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $500 → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $25k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $5k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $3k → 16%MACARES: $500 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
VA
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 39 repeat orgs$861k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
38

Total granted

$6.7M
$702k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+10%

Still filing today

54%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesReligionArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +10%
  • NORTH RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +27%
  • UG
    UNITE GREENSBORO JAIL MINISTRY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • UC
    UNCG CAMPAIGN FOR CHAMPIONS
    one grant, 2021 · $600k
  • CC
    CATALYST CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • CC
    CAPITOL COMMISSION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +9%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Charlotte Rescue Mission

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.

Health
2
Rescue Missions Ministries Inc

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…

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3
Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Education and Research Foundation
Health
4
Carolina University

A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education
5
East Carolina Health

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
6
Greensboro College

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.

Education
7
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
8
The Outer Banks Hospital Inc

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.

Health
9
North Carolina Medical Society

To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.

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10
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

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…

Science & Tech
11
Hospice of Gaston County Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

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12
The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc

Believing every individual has sacred value, we equip people to impact the world for good through the love of jesus christ.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/42
Grantees still filing
25/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $5,825,000 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC+7 more: $67,320 · EducationUNCG CAMPAIGN FOR CHAMPIONS: $600,000 · OtherUNCG CAMPAIGN FOR CHA…CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH: $241,000 · OtherCORNERSTONE BAPTIST C…UNIVERSITY OF NC GREENSBORO: $116,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NC GREE…EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION - UNC CHAPEL HILL: $110,000 · OtherEDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO…Individual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (UNC): $50,000 · Other+52 more: $246,901 · Other+52 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $40,000 · ReligionCAPITOL COMMISSION INC: $10,000 · ReligionPROVIDENCE ROAD CHURCH OF CHRIST: $10,000 · Religion+1 more: $500 · ReligionUNITE GREENSBORO JAIL MINISTRY: $49,400 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $500 · Crime & LegalGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $33,000 · Human ServicesMAKE A DIFFERENCE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $3,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesEAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Human ServicesAUTHORACARE COLLECTIVE: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesAmerican Diabetes Association: $15,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC: $6,000 · HealthMALACHI HOUSE II: $3,000 · HealthHOPE REINS: $2,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $2,000 · HealthTRIAD BE HEAD STRONGORG INC: $1,500 · HealthBIKES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $26,000 · Philanthropy
Education$5,892,320Other$1,413,901Religion$60,500Crime & Legal$49,900Human Services$42,500Health$29,500Philanthropy$26,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $5,825,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetNORTH RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITE GREENSBORO JAIL MINISTRY: $49,400 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $33,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBIKES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITOL COMMISSION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGUATEMALAN STUDENT SUPPORT GROUP: $8,500 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINSTON-SALEM RESCUE MISSION INC: $5,041 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLENOIR COMMITTEE OF 100 INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNORTH MYRTLE BEACH RESCUE SQUAD INC: $3,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE A DIFFERENCE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES: $3,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE II: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA CAROLINA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGATEWAY WOMEN'S CARE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,320 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPUT ON THE BRAKES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE REINS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTHORACARE COLLECTIVE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNC TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRIAD BE HEAD STRONGORG INC: $1,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetGUILFORD TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUCKER BUDDY INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCROSS CONNECTION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABOLITIONNC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION RESOLUTE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 CAPITOL COMMISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE ROAD CHURCH OF CHRIST ↗
  • Who funds GUATEMALAN STUDENT SUPPORT GROUP ↗
  • Who funds UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
  • 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 GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds LENOIR COMMITTEE OF 100 INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH MYRTLE BEACH RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFE CARE PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE A DIFFERENCE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Duke Energy FoundationFoundation for the Ca…Lincoln Financial Fou…Ibm International Fou…Betty J and Robert P …Well-Spring Retiremen…Crossroads Fellowship…The Joseph M Bryan Fo…Tannenbaum-Sternberge…The Cannon Foundation…Triangle Community Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …
Duke Energy FoundationNC23.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bodford Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bodford Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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