· Private foundation
The Hodges Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SWINGPALS INC | $40,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of The Hodges Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SWINGPALS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $347k · revenue +384% · 39% of their budget- SISTREETSQUASH INC4× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +26%
SQUASHBUSTERS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $500
- TMTHE MENS COUNCIL INCone grant, 2018 · $250
- BOBBBS OF THE TRIANGLEone grant, 2017 · $250
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.
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.
To provide strength-based support to durham schools to end the detrimental impact of out of school suspensions. we provide alternative programming that focuses on the inherent strengths and potential of each student to help them…
To improve outcomes for students in the Durham community by providing programs focused on academic success, social-emotional well being, and leadership.
To enrich and impact the lives of economically disadvantaged youth of NC by filling the educational gaps, emotional and lack of parental involvement through the utilization of sports.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
Our mission is to empower and equip first-generation college students in durham public schools, their families, and educators to become the leaders that will transform our city.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Junior achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating private and public school students in grades k-12 about entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and financial literacy, through experiential, hands-on programs.
To provide hope and healing for children who have been abused
To hold juvenile and youthful offenders accountable for criminal and delinquent behaviorand to provide constructive opportunities for community service and victim restitution;and toempower our youth, enhance their knowledge of the legal…
Re-entry Program in Durham NC
To engage, equip, and encourage our refugee neighbors so that all may thrive.
In partnership with educators, CollegeSpring helps students impacted by poverty demonstrate their full potential on college and career readiness assessments that unlock better opportunities after high school. Our vision is that every…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SWINGPALS INC ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds SQUASHBUSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Partners for Youth Opportunity ↗
- Who funds BOOK HARVEST ↗
- Who funds HOPE REINS ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hodges Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hodges Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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