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The Borden Fund Inc
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 $10k36 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NC | $25,100 |
| WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE | $12,500 |
| NC AQUARIUM SOCIETY | $12,500 |
| UNITED WAY-WAYNE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| NC MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| DOWNTOWN GOLDSBORO DEVELOPMENT CORP | $6,500 |
| WAYNE COUNTY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| WAYNE OPPORTUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| ST MARY'S SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| ASHEVILLE SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,700 |
| KRIQUETTE'S KIDS | $3,500 |
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, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
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.
69 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 32 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- WFWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +47%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +46%
- WOWAYNE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- SSST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $27k
- KAKITTY ASKINS HOSPICE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $25k
Habitat for Humanity Orange County NC Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -23%
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 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.
Provide a challenging learning environment in science, technology, engineering, and math to a diverse student population, enabling them to become problem-solving, peace-building, solution-focused citizens. the curriculum is designed to…
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
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…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of wingate university is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.
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.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
The nccf is the single statewide community foundation serving north carolina and was created in 1988 to build capacity through philanthropy. the nccf administers over 1,300 component funds established to provide long-term support of a…
Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Zoological Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Paramount Theatre Foundation the Paramount Theatre 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 52 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 107 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 WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WAYNE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Y ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KRIQUETTES KIDZ ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN GOLDSBORO DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE FOUNDATION THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAYNE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA 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: Borden Foundation · Mid-Atlantic Foundation · M & J Foundation Inc · R a Bryan Foundation Inc · Mount Olive Pickle Company Foundation · Southern Bank Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Ellen & Munroe Best Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc
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 Borden Fund Inc 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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