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The W Duke Kimbrell Family Foundation Co Julia B Singh

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.

$5.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$8.4MPhilanthropy$5.2MHuman Services$3.0MEnvironment$1.3MCommunity Improvement$500kArts & Culture$333kRecreation & Sports$200kHousing & Shelter$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $367k
  • $250k+5 grants · $4.6M
$500,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$97M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GASTON DAY SCHOOL$1,208,601
DANIEL STOWE BOTANICAL GARDEN$1,200,000
GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,114,732
NORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION$600,000
HOMETOWN SERVICE COALITION$500,000
SCHIELE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$166,667
GASTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION$150,000
CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL$50,000
WOODS SERVICES$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%WOODS SERVICES INC: $50k → 6%WOODS SERVICES: $10k → 6%WOODS SERVICES: $10k → 6%WOODS SERVICES: $5k → 6%WOODS SERVICES: $5k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 8 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -8% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$12M
$252k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%
-11%

Still filing today

75%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +75%
  • SM
    SCHIELE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND PLANETARIUM
    2× · 2023–2024 · $333k · revenue +32%
  • WS
    Woods Services Inc
    5× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity of Gaston County Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -11%
  • DS
    DANIEL STOWE BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUND
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • ES
    EMPTY STOCKING FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
2
Greater Gaston Development Corporat

The ggdc is a private sector led non-profit corporation, formed in 2014 for the sole purpose of strengthening factors influencing gaston county's economic competitiveness. the organization has served as a leader, catalyst, convener, and…

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3
Hospice of Gaston County Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

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4
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
5
The Natural Science Center of Greensboro Inc Dba Greensboro Science Center

The mission of the center is inspiring curiosity and connecting communities through science and conservation. we accomplish this by providing ever-evolving experiences where exploration and imagination intersect, igniting a lifelong…

Arts & Culture
6
Carteret County General Hospital Foundation

To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…

Philanthropy
7
Gaston Business Association Inc

To champion an environment for healthy economic growth and quality job creation in gaston county by remaining active on many fronts, including economic development, regional initiatives, membership benefits and services, quality of life,…

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8
Gaston Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Organization provides firefighting and rescue services to the town of gaston and northampton county, nc

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Gaviota Coast Conservancy

Gaviota coast conservancy is dedicated to permanently protecting the rural character and environmental integrity of the gaviota coast for present and future generations.

Environment
10
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
11
Gaston School of the Arts

To provide quality, affordable arts instruction in music, art and drama for children and adults in gaston county, north carolina and the surrounding area.

Arts & Culture
12
Greater Winston-Salem Development Corp

To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gaston Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hometown Service Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GASTON DAY SCHOOL INC: $3,634,480 · EducationGASTON DAY SCHOOL INCGASTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,659,999 · EducationGASTON COLLEGE FOUNDATIONNORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC: $1,200,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INCGaston County Family YMCA: $3,000,000 · OtherGaston County Family YMCADANIEL STOWE BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1,200,000 · OtherDANIEL STOWE BOTANICAL GARDENBEYOND BOUNDARIES CHILDRENS FOUNDAT: $950,000 · OtherBEYOND BOUNDARIES CHILDRENS FOUN…CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL: $200,000 · Other+4 more: $251,500 · OtherGASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,238,297 · PhilanthropyGASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONHOMETOWN SERVICE COALITION: $500,000 · Community ImprovementSCHIELE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND PLANETARIUM: $333,334 · Arts & CultureWoods Services Inc: $80,000 · Human Services
Education$7,494,479Other$5,601,500Philanthropy$5,238,297Community Improvement$500,000Arts & Culture$333,334Human Services$80,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,238,297 over 4y, 22% of budgetGASTON DAY SCHOOL INC: $3,634,480 over 7y, 13% of budgetGaston County Family YMCA: $3,000,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetGASTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,659,999 over 4y, 26% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC: $1,200,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetHOMETOWN SERVICE COALITION: $500,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetSCHIELE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND PLANETARIUM: $333,334 over 2y, 13% of budgetCAROLINA THREAD TRAIL: $200,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Gaston County Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWoods Services Inc: $80,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
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 GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GASTON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Gaston County Family YMCA ↗
  • Who funds GASTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMETOWN SERVICE COALITION ↗
  • Who funds SCHIELE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND PLANETARIUM ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL ↗
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Gaston County Inc ↗
  • Who funds Woods Services 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.

The David Belk Cannon FoundationNC20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The David Belk Cannon Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Howe Foundation Inc · Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc · The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The W Duke Kimbrell Family Foundation Co Julia B Singh funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The W Duke Kimbrell Family Foundation Co Julia B Singh. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to The W Duke Kimbrell Family Foundation Co Julia B Singh through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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