· Public charity
The Health Foundation Inc
To improve the health and well-being of the people in our communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $977,490 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,056,175 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $78,685 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k15 grants · $284k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $355k
- $250k+1 grant · $339k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN OF WILKESBORO | $338,560 |
| WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC | $120,411 |
| WILKES COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $88,000 |
| WILKES COUNTY SCHOOLS | $76,897 |
| SAFE SPOT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF WILKES | $70,000 |
| WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN | $45,750 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC | $40,000 |
| WILKES DEVELOPMENTAL DAY SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| YADKIN RIVER GREENWAY | $30,000 |
| WILKES DENTAL CONSORTIUM INC | $17,972 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE | $16,000 |
| SAMARITAN KITCHEN OF WILKES | $13,000 |
| CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION TEAM | $12,500 |
| WILKES YOUTH LIFE DEVELOPMENT | $12,500 |
| WILKES CIRCLES OF CARE | $10,900 |
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 (FY20–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of The Health Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- WRWILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $321k · revenue ×16
- SSSAFE SPOT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF WILKES2× · 2022–2024 · $145k · revenue +112% · 41% of their budget
- HHHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA5× · 2020–2024 · $119k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- WRWILKES RESCUE SQUAD INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +20%
- TOTOWN OF NORTH WILKESBOROone grant, 2021 · $24k
- NWNORTH WILKESBORO HOUSING AUTHORITYone grant, 2022 · $22k
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 provide adult day health services in a safe, enriching atmosphere. participants will be cared for with dignity, compassion, and acceptance by an exceptional staff dedicated to meeting their needs.
To serve as a catalyst for improving results for Georgia's children, families and communities.
United way of wilkes county is dedicated to improving the lives of our citizens by underwriting identified programs that enhance their well-being through our 21 partner agencies. the united way of wilkes county annually impacts over 32,000…
Economic development of wilkes county
To provide services, education, and information that promote quality of life and active aging for senior citizens.
To provide jobs and training to individuals who, due to physical or mental handicaps, have been unable to obtain a regular position in the workforce of the community. basic skills such as mathematics and personal grooming are taught by the…
The wilkes art gallery provides art exhibits from a variety of artistic media. they also organize art education classes and programs for students and adults of wilkes county, nc and surrounding areas.
To assist educational functions
Provision of primary and preventive care services to the rural population of wirt, jackson, and wood counties in west virginia and the surrounding areas.
To offer women in need the hope of christ, support them in transforming their lives and help them get off of wilkens avenue and into professional detox center, safe housing and thriving lives.
Provide emergency human services
Provide cultural and artistic programs for the public of Wilkes County, NC and the surrounding area
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wilkes Community Partnership for Children and the most unlike its peers is Pleasant Hill Volunteer Fire Department Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 30 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 WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE SPOT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF WILKES ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WILKES ADULT DEVELOPMENTAL ACTIVITIES PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds RONDA COMMUNITY VOL FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES DENTAL CONSORTIUM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHANY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds YADKIN RIVER GREENWAY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CARENET COUNSELING OF WILKES INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES DEVELOPMENTAL DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ECHO MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds WILKES CIRCLE OF CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN KITCHEN OF WILKES ↗
- Who funds WILKES LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION TEAM ↗
- Who funds PLEASANT HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES YOUTH LIFE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds AIDS LEADERSHIP FOOTHILLS AREA ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER ↗
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 Leonard G Herring Family Foundation · Wilkes Medical Center Foundation · United Way of Wilkes County Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Stone Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Carson Foundation · The Golden Leaf Inc · Syla Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc · The Cannon 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 Health Foundation 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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