· Private foundation
The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k16 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $304k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $926k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $245,750 |
| WILKES PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN | $230,000 |
| WILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $225,000 |
| OLD HICKORY COUNCIL | $115,000 |
| WILKES COUNTY LIBRARY | $60,000 |
| SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE | $50,074 |
| WILKES ART GALLERY | $30,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC | $26,000 |
| WILKES PLAYMAKERS INC | $20,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| HIGHER ED WORKS | $20,000 |
| WILKES MINISTRY OF HOPE | $15,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $15,000 |
| WILKES COUNTY SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| YMCA OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA | $15,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $217k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +49% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 12 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $351k 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
- WCWILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $470k · revenue +72%
- WEWILKES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION4× · 2020–2024 · $325k · revenue +182%
- BRBLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $186k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $100k
- CHCATHERINE H BARBER MEMORIAL SHELTER INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -51%
CLUB NOVA COMMUNITY INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -11%
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 support and carry out the functions and purposes of wrmc hospital operating corporation (dba atrium health wake forest baptist wilkes medical center) to enhance the delivery of quality health care within the organization's region.
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 provide services, education, and information that promote quality of life and active aging for senior citizens.
Provider of day care and training programs for children with development disabilities
To educate through a commitment to attention, exceptional teaching, and academic excellence.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
The organization provides training and work programs for physically and/or mentally handicapped adults of wilkes county, nc. average enrollment = 40
Committed to helping women and men make life affirming choices concerning pregnancy relationship & sexual behavior. Our goal is to empower these women & men by providing them the tools necessary to make life changing decisions.
To promote the practice of medicine and advocate for the rights of patients to quality medical care.
Wilmington christian school provides a christ-centered challenging academic program with instruction based on the biblical view of god and the world. wcs teaches, influences, and encourages each student to effectively integrate biblical…
To assist educational functions
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wilkes Community Partnership for Children and the most unlike its peers is Wilkes Playmakers 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 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 82 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.
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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 Stone Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Health Foundation Inc · United Way of Wilkes County Inc · Wilkes Medical Center Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Speedway Children's Charities · The Carson Foundation · Syla Foundation · Melton Foundation · Strickland Family Foundation Cynthia a S Graham
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 Leonard G Herring Family 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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