· Private foundation
The Hummel Family Fund Inc
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YWCA GREENSBORO | $20,000 |
| NC MUSEUM OF ART FNDN | $15,250 |
| IMAGINE NC FIRST | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CHATHAM COUNTY | $6,000 |
| UW OF GREATER GSO | $5,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR SOUTHERN STUDIES | $5,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $2,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| FEARRINGTON CARES | $1,500 |
| FEARRINGTON VILLAGE SINGERS | $1,490 |
| EL FUTURO | $1,000 |
| CORA | $1,000 |
| CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY | $1,000 |
| CONE HEALTH | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
108 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 76 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
IMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST5× · 2018–2025 · $95k · revenue +258%
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $51k · revenue +85%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC8× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- CECLEAN ENERGY WORKSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +112%
- J(JDRF (GALA FUND-A-CURE)one grant, 2023 · $10k
- NNNEW NORTH CAROLINA PROJECT FOUNDATIone grant, 2021 · $6k
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 north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To tackle the accelerating crisis of climate change by working to transition nc to clean, efficient energy & by watch-dogging utility practices. we pursue this work through grassroots activism, technical analysis, legal challenges and…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
The endowment works collaboratively with partners in the public and private sectors to advance systemic, transformative, and sustainable change for the health and vitality of the nation's working forests and forest reliant communities.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greensboro Housing Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Amnion Foundation 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 34 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 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
122 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. 122 of the 263 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 YWCA Greensboro ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN ENERGY WORKS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CHATHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds P E R C INC ↗
- Who funds Fearrington Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EL FUTURO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Democracy North Carolina ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds Nonprofit Information Networking Association ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORD INC ↗
- Who funds WILLOW OAK MONTESSORI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Institute for Southern Studies Inc ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Just Money Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA 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: Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Hillsdale Fund · Foundation for the Carolinas · Dawn S Chaney Foundation · William a Stern Foundation · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · Griffin Family 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 Hummel Family Fund 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% 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.
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