· Private foundation
The Goodnight Educational 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k10 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $410k
- $250k+8 grants · $8.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NC MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| CARY ACADEMY | $1,090,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NC MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES | $1,050,000 |
| PBS NORTH CAROLINA | $1,000,000 |
| NC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| NC MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| MYFUTURENC INC | $1,000,000 |
| NCSU FOUNDATION INC | $400,000 |
| THE YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA | $100,000 |
| NC BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUCATION | $60,000 |
| NC SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| EDUCATIONNC | $50,000 |
| PUBLIC ED WORKS | $50,000 |
| PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC | $50,000 |
| UNC AT CHAPEL HILL - PUBLIC RADIO WUNC | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +53% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- NCNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $28M · revenue +232%
CARY ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $8.7M · revenue +24%- MMYFUTURENCINC7× · 2019–2025 · $7.0M · revenue +203% · 80% of their budget
Funded once
- NCNC COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $1.0M
- FOFRIENDS OF NC STATE MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $450k
- HCHOKE COUNTY SCHOOLSone grant, 2018 · $250k
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.
To advocate for members and students, to enhance the education profession, and to advance public education.
To support public school adminisrators in north carolina through services in communications, professional development, and public policy.
Operation of a public charter school.
North carolina charter educational foundation is a north carolina not-for-profit entity organized exclusively for educational purposes. the foundation is comprised of respected leaders in the state of north carolina who are committed to…
The nccee provides economic and financial education for educators and students throughout north carolina. this mission is accomplished through standards based workshops and a variety of resources for educators, academic competitions for…
NCAIS promotes educational excellence and empowers member schools to thrive in pursuit of their missions. Our core commitments are to provide leading-edge educational opportunities communities of colleagues guidance in school leadership…
Great schools north carolina (gsnc) was founded to remove barriers to success for both existing and new public charter schools across the state. gsnc supports leaders with strategic funding and collaborative partnerships to increase access…
The north carolina leadership academy provides its k-12 students with a solid foundation of skills, knowledge, and information as part of their college preparatory program. additionally, ncla seeks the acceptance of all high school…
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…
To provide basic necessities for public school children as well as improving parenting skills in order for the children to be successful in school and to expand professional development opportunities for educators.
Ncaeyc promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. we advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Education Corps and the most unlike its peers is North Carolina Freedom Park. 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 40 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 58 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 NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MYFUTURENCINC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION OF THE NCCAT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LATINX EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONNC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT U ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONALS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ED WORKS ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLEASANT GROVE FOUNDATION 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: Duke Energy Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Belk Foundation · Childtrust Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008 · Truist Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas
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 Goodnight Educational 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.
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