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The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I at a glance

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The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$17MPhilanthropy$2.7MHuman Services$1.2MYouth Development$610kArts & Culture$464kCommunity Improvement$385kHealth$380kHousing & Shelter$275kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $570k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$14,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHIFTED$500,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$200,000
UNC - CAROLINA COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS$200,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS$187,500
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY$97,000
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY$96,291
CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP$80,000
ACTION GREENSBORO$75,000
UNC-CHARLOTTE$70,000
READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE$66,667
UNC-CHAPEL HILL$66,500
MOTIVATIONAL FOUNDATION THE BLAKE ODUM$50,000
MONTREAT COLLEGE$45,000
GREENSBORO LITERARY ORGANIZATION - GREENSBORO BOUND$40,000
LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY$40,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $343k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $200k → 16%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $50k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $25k → 16%HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF GREENSBORO: $20k → 16%HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF GREENSBORO: $20k → 16%BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF GREENSBORO: $21k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT: $7k → 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

VT
PA
CA
UT
WV
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 102 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

102 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102
56

Total granted

$20M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+27%

Still filing today

50%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • Davidson College
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +42%
  • TM
    THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2023 · $500k · revenue +22%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP
    5× · 2018–2024 · $470k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREAT GREENSBORO
    one grant, 2017 · $700k
  • RS
    RANDOLPH SENIOR ADULTS ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +42%
  • UC
    UNCG-CAROLINA COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS
    one grant, 2017 · $193k
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
Lehigh University

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…

Education
2
Greenville College

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.

Education
3
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
6
Furman University

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.

Education
7
Gordon College

Gordon college strives to graduate men & women distinguished by (continued on schedule o) (continuation) intellectual maturity and christian character, committed to lives of service and prepared for leadership worldwide.

Education
8
Brevard College Corporation

Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.

Education
9
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education
10
North Greenville University

North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbell University; the most unlike its peers is Communities in Schools of Greater Greensboro Inc. 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

80 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. 80 of the 174 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/80
Grantees still filing
54/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNC-GREENSBORO: $1,405,000 · OtherUNC-GREENSBOROAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $946,408 · OtherAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITYCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREAT GREENSBORO: $700,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREAT GREENSBORONORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $586,100 · OtherCANTERBURY SCHOOL: $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $480,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-CHAPEL HILL: $453,107 · Other+97 more: $8,014,422 · Other+97 moreDavidson College: $1,611,250 · EducationDavidson CollegeSHIFT EDUCATION: $1,000,000 · EducationSHIFT EDUCATIONGUILFORD COLLEGE: $882,000 · EducationGUILFORD COLLEGESALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE: $601,451 · EducationSALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGETHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $500,000 · EducationTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOLCENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP: $470,000 · EducationCENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIPNORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · EducationGUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $390,000 · Education+44 more: $2,070,909 · Education+44 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $1,705,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY …Alleghany Memorial Hospital Foundation INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyAlleghany …UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…+1 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyBACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $250,000 · Human ServicesRANDOLPH SENIOR ADULTS ASSOCIATION INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $140,000 · Human ServicesAUTHORACARE COLLECTIVE: $40,000 · Human Services+2 more: $27,500 · Human ServicesGREENSBORO LITERARY ORGANIZATION: $135,000 · Arts & CultureGREEN HILL CENTER FOR NORTH CAROLINA ART: $35,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE NC STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePreservation Greensboro Inc: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $6,500 · Arts & CultureACTION GREENSBORO: $170,000 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TRIAD INC: $150,000 · International
Other$13,085,037Education$7,925,610Philanthropy$2,205,000Human Services$657,500Arts & Culture$211,500Community Improvement$170,000International$150,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $1,705,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetDavidson College: $1,611,250 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSHIFT EDUCATION: $1,000,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetGUILFORD COLLEGE: $882,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE: $601,451 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $500,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP: $470,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Greater Greensboro Inc: $396,842 over 4y, 19% of budgetGUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $390,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetAlleghany Memorial Hospital Foundation INC: $250,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetBACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $250,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetREADY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE: $233,334 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetRANDOLPH SENIOR ADULTS ASSOCIATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $174,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetACTION GREENSBORO: $170,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetGUILFORD COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE TRIAD INC: $150,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $140,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGREENSBORO LITERARY ORGANIZATION: $135,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetGARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $130,641 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWINGATE UNIVERSITY: $119,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetElon University: $111,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY: $104,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEREDITH COLLEGE: $103,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMONTREAT COLLEGE: $92,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $87,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $83,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $59,972 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGreensboro College: $58,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte: $52,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $52,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED FUND OF SURRY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC RANDOLPH-ASHEBORO: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCATAWBA COLLEGE: $48,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAUTHORACARE COLLECTIVE: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $37,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFERRUM COLLEGE: $36,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN HILL CENTER FOR NORTH CAROLINA ART: $35,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetBELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC: $34,763 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMORY & HENRY UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN SURRY FOUNDATION FOR BETTER HEALTH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA FOR COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
  • Who funds Davidson College ↗
  • Who funds SHIFT EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds GUILFORD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Communities in Schools of Greater Greensboro Inc ↗
  • Who funds GUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Alleghany Memorial Hospital Foundation INC ↗
  • Who funds BACKPACK BEGINNINGS ↗
  • Who funds READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds RANDOLPH SENIOR ADULTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ACTION GREENSBORO ↗

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.

The Cemala Foundation…Lincoln Financial Fou…Tannenbaum-Sternberge…The Cannon Foundation…Hillsdale FundAmg Charitable Gift F…Duke Energy FoundationFoundation for the Ca…National Collegiate A…Community Foundation …Lettie Pate Whitehead…Reynolds American Fou…
The Cemala Foundation IncNC43× affinity18 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cemala Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Hillsdale Fund · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Reynolds American Foundation

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 Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Norwich University: 4% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 174 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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