· Community foundation
The Winston-Salem Foundation
We foster meaningful connections and link resources to purposeful action, creating a brighter future for all who call Forsyth County home.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 823 grants below total $88,780,505 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $92,665,055 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,884,550 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k136 grants · $947k
- $10k–50k381 grants · $7.9M
- $50k–250k226 grants · $22M
- $250k+80 grants · $58M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Charities Aid Foundation America | $5,844,669 |
| Davie Community Foundation | $3,000,100 |
| City Year | $2,650,000 |
| American Heart Association | $2,057,733 |
| Family Services | $1,765,615 |
| Wake Forest University | $1,665,831 |
| Atrium Health Foundation | $1,501,000 |
| Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership Inc | $1,500,000 |
| Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina | $1,089,500 |
| UNC Charlotte Foundation | $1,072,658 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest NC | $1,052,881 |
| Crossnore Communities for Children | $1,017,245 |
| Clark Atlanta University | $1,000,000 |
| West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute | $1,000,000 |
| Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund | $1,000,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $20.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
973 repeat relationships — 529 still active in FY2024, 444 since wound down; 247 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; $16M 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
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $8.6M · revenue +33%- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2019–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +151%
- WFWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $7.7M · revenue +22%
Funded once
- RERURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20M · revenue ×12
- NINCINNOVATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue ×76 · 56% of their budget
- CSCOPPIN STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +55% · 33% of their budget
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 primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
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…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Ruff Love Foster Care and Dog Rescue. 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 35 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
1648 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. 1648 of the 2,000 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 RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA DRUG INTERVENTION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds Winston-Salem State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds DAVIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RON CLARK ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Arbor Acres United Methodist Retirement Community Inc ↗
- Who funds The Millennium Fund CO Winston-Salem Foundation ↗
- Who funds CROSBY SCHOLARS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TECHSOUP GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds The Summit School Incorporated ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION 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: Reynolds American Foundation · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · Reynolds Foundation 186-8803582 · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · Twin City Development Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Strickland Family Foundation Cynthia a S Graham · James G Hanes Memorial Fund · Truist Foundation Inc · North Carolina Baptist Hospital · Flow Foundation Inc
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 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.
- Urban League of Broward County Inc — 44% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Florida Community Loan Fund Inc — 31% of income from government
- Baltimore Community Lending Inc — 28% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Miami Bayside Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
- St Thomas University Inc — 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.