· Public charity
The Millennium Fund CO Winston-Salem Foundation
Help in the development of downtown Winston-Salem, NC via projects, infrastructure, business recruitment, and site selection.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $535k
- $250k+1 grant · $800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Greater Winston-Salem Inc | $800,000 |
| UNC School of the Arts Foundation | $200,000 |
| Winston-Salem State University Foundation | $200,000 |
| North Carolina Black Reperatory Company | $75,000 |
| Winston Starts | $60,000 |
| RiverRun International Film Festival | $40,000 |
| Bookmarks | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of your 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.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- GWGREATER WINSTON-SALEM DEVELOPMENT CORP3× · 2017–2023 · $942k · revenue +16% · 56% of their budget
- NCNORTH CAROLINA BLACK REPERTORY COMPANY INC4× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +10%
- WSWINSTON STARTS5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- DWDOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $350k · revenue -82% · 90% of their budget
- TATHE ARTS COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +100%
- DWDOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM PARTNERSHIP INC2× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +16%
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.
Help in the development of downtown Winston-Salem, NC via projects, infrastructure, business recruitment, and site selection.
To connect, enrich, and enlarge the community through history, storytelling, an informed, balanced perspective that leads to acceptance, understanding, and belonging.
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To protect and strengthen the wilmington business community and help businesses grow and thrive by providing members with business-building programs and events to help them connect and do business with one another.
The North Carolina Azalea Festival celebrates our community's art, gardens, history, and culture through educational, recreational, and family-friendly events that promote volunteerism, civic pride, and regional economic growth.
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To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The mission is to provide the community an avenue for education and development in all aspects of theatrical arts and to provide entertainment for the community by offering a series of well-staged performances of live theatre.
Enhance economic development
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Winston-Salem Development Corp and the most unlike its peers is North Carolina Black Repertory Company Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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.
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 GREATER WINSTON-SALEM DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds GREATER WINSTON-SALEM INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Winston-Salem State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERRUN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BLACK REPERTORY COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds WINSTON STARTS ↗
- Who funds BOOKMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds AGILE CITY WINSTON-SALEM ↗
- Who funds Downtown Winston-Salem Community Cinema ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CYCLING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SPORTS MEDIA ASSOCIATION 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 Winston-Salem Foundation · Twin City Development Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · North Carolina Baptist Hospital · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · The Arts Council Inc · Wake Forest University · Richard Wood Averill Charitable Trust aka Richard Wood Averill Foundation · Flow Foundation Inc · Strickland Family Foundation Cynthia a S Graham · Reynolds Foundation 186-8803582
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 Millennium Fund CO Winston-Salem 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.