· Private foundation
The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of THE EDWARD M ARMFIELD SR FOUNDATION I’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $570k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390k 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
Davidson College7× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +42%- TMTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL5× · 2019–2023 · $500k · revenue +22%
- CFCENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP5× · 2018–2024 · $470k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREAT GREENSBOROone grant, 2017 · $700k
- RSRANDOLPH SENIOR ADULTS ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +42%
- UCUNCG-CAROLINA COLLEGE ADVISING CORPSone grant, 2017 · $193k
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.
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…
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.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
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.
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.
Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.
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…
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbell University and 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.
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 56 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 174 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 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH SENIOR ADULTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ACTION GREENSBORO ↗
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: 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
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 Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I 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.
- 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
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.