· Private foundation
The Joseph M Bryan Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $600k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $650k
- $250k+5 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHIFTED | $400,000 |
| ACTION GREENSBORO | $355,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO | $300,000 |
| READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE | $250,274 |
| WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP | $250,000 |
| PIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP | $200,000 |
| GREENSBORO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $105,689 |
| NC A&T UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER GREENSBORO | $75,000 |
| CITY OF GREENSBORO BRYAN GOLF COURSE | $69,393 |
| TRIANGLE SPORTS COMMISSION | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $49,649 |
| GUILFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS | $40,000 |
| GREENSBORO JAYCEES HOLIDAY PARADE | $33,340 |
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 (FY20–22, $32k) 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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 16 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $625k 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
- GMGREENSBORO-RANDOLPH MEGASITE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2024 · $7.7M · revenue +291% · 100% of their budget
- PTPIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION D/B/A WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +101%
- PTPIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP5× · 2020–2024 · $600k · revenue +86%
Funded once
GUILFORD COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue -92%- GRGATEWAY RESEARCH PARK INCone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +20%
- NCNational Collegiate Athletic Associationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +148%
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 serve as greensboro, north carolina's principal economic and community development organization. our goal is to strategically develop a vibrant community that creates, expands, and attracts business while advancing the quality of life…
To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.
Greater winston-salem inc. is a leading business organization in winston- salem and forsyth county. the organization is focused on establishing winston-salem as a technology-driven economic center. greater winston-salem inc. offers…
Promoting and enhancing the economic growth and development of greenville county south carolina; gadc was formed by greenville county council.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
The carolinas gateway partnership is dedicated to the creation of community wealth through the retention, creation, and expansion of business opportunities in tarboro, rocky mount, and edgecombe county, north carolina.
To build a thriving regional economy, enhance the community's quality of life, and strengthen member businesses.
Gusa's mission is to promote soccer competition.
Goodwill builds pathways that help people pursue the life they want to achieve. goodwill exists to help people see possibilities, seize opportunities, and prosper. we partner with individuals to identify their strengths, interests and…
The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…
The cga is a non-profit service organization that was formed in 1909 to conduct championships and tournaments for amateur golfers in north and south carolina, administer the usga handicap system in the carolinas, and support its membership…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Cemala 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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 107 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 GREENSBORO-RANDOLPH MEGASITE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT TRIAD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION D/B/A WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP ↗
- Who funds ACTION GREENSBORO ↗
- Who funds READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds SHIFT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY RESEARCH PARK INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds National Collegiate Athletic Association ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOLF FORE FUN INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds BIKES FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN GREENSBORO 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: The Cemala Foundation Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation · Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community Health Foundation · Weaver Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Louis DeJoy & Aldona Z Wos Family Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Truist Foundation Inc · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I
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 Joseph M Bryan 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% 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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