· Private foundation
The Bridgewater 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 $10k2 grants · $1k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO | $17,988 |
| BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION | $100 |
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 (FY17–22, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +166% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- ACAUTHORACARE COLLECTIVE4× · 2017–2022 · $151k · revenue +193%
- PLPIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY3× · 2022–2025 · $129k · revenue +166%
- CHChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $600 · revenue +51%
Funded once
- TATEXAS A&Mone grant, 2022 · $7k
- GUGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRYone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -26%
- CHCONE HEALTH - ALIGHT PROGRAMone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
Glencoe regional health services exists to improve every life by offering high-quality, safe, and accessible healthcare. we are dedicated to strengthening healthcare by connecting our communities, enhancing the patient experience,…
The purpose of the corporation is to engage in charitable efforts and to support granville health system in providing healthcare and related services to the citizens and residents of granville county and the surrounding community.
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…
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
Blue ridge medical group is committed to improving the health of our communities by providing excellent and compassionate care.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
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…
The mission of the bladen county hospital foundation is to serve the community by building awareness and philanthropic support for bladen county hospital as it provides compassionate, quality healthcare for all its patients.
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
To inspire health and healing by putting patients first -- always.
Preserving, interpreting, and developing the heritage resources of the North Carolina mountains.
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…
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 Royal Expressions Contemporary Ballet. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds AUTHORACARE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO LITERARY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds HIRSCH WELLNESS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds Royal Expressions Contemporary Ballet ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HSHS Holy Family Hospital ↗
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: Weaver Foundation Inc · Hillsdale Fund · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Loomis Family Foundation Inc · Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving 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 Bridgewater 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.
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.