How much did The Winston-Salem Foundation grant in FY2024?

Education$110MCommunity Improvement$50MHealth$46MPhilanthropy$41MHuman Services$36MArts & Culture$18MHousing & Shelter$18MReligion$12MFood & Nutrition$8.9MOther$157M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

fallen heroesgame golfgunapiamass fallenfurnishingsclemson

2020

mallnvfsnotre damegenerouseducation employmentmorehouseemerald youth

2021

fsuequuvationeducate empowermhcscare systembushpaf

2022

chimeschildren adolescentsmake differencetfashorsepoweramericans minorityminority groups

2023

wwfcfoheducation artsarborgardner-webbstudents harvardeaa

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 823 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k136 grants · $947k
$10k–50k381 grants · $7.9M
$50k–250k226 grants · $22M
$250k+80 grants · $58M

$25,000

Median grant

—

States reached

$630M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
Ron Clark Academy$1,000,000
Clark Atlanta University$1,000,000
Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund$1,000,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $20.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$401M · 1002 repeat orgs$97M to everyone else

1002 repeat relationships — 556 still active in FY2024, 446 since wound down; 240 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1002

758

Total granted

$401M

$79M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+59%

Still filing today

78%

84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

CA
Charities Aid Foundation America
2× · 2023–2024 · $9.0M · revenue +449%
Wake Forest University
6× · 2019–2024 · $8.6M · revenue +18%
SP
Samaritan's Purse
6× · 2019–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +134%

Funded once

RE
RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $20M · revenue +1215%
NC
NORTH CAROLINA KNOWLEDGE CORRIDORgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue +258980% · 56% of their budget
CS
Coppin State University Development Foundation Incgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +172% · 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.

04Your field

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.

Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education

North Carolina Partnership for

Advance a high quality, comprehensive, accountable early childhood system that benefits each child in north carolina beginning with a healthy birth.

Education

North Carolina Biotechnology Center

To provide long-term economic and societal benefits to north carolina through support of biotechnology research, business, education and strategic policy statewide.

Science & Tech

The University of North Carolina At

To accept the transfer of assets from the uncg endowment fund and the affiliated foundations, which benefit the university, and to manage the investment of those assets.

Education

Furman University

Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.

Education

Charlotte Works

Leading the development of a skilled and in-demand workforce by engaging businesses, aligning community partners, empowering and connecting job seeker to meaningful employer, and fostering inclusive economic growth.

Employment

University of South Carolina Alumni

Add value to students. engage our alumni. build the brand.

Education

New North Carolina Project Action First

The new north carolina project's mission is to make politics represent the needs of north carolinians by investing in communities of color, expanding the engaged electorate and creating #lifelongvoters.

Civil Rights

Carolina Meadows Foundation Inc

To support the programs and services of carolina meadows.

Human Services

Givens Affordable Communities Inc

To assist with payroll and employee benefit obligations for entities related to given estates,

Housing & Shelter

University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real property for the benefit of the…

Education

Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlotte Regional Business Alliance and the most unlike its peers is National Gallery of Art. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.8%15/2,005

the rest of the field

13%

6,803/51,175

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.

05the grantee network

1648 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

125

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

477

Early backer (in before they grew)

1602/1648

Grantees still filing

1285/1648

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$196,540,857Education$109,607,900Community Improvement$50,489,975Health$45,747,511Philanthropy$40,858,411Human Services$36,213,530Arts & Culture$18,318,014

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.

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.

Reynolds American FoundationNC103.4× affinity145 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Reynolds American Foundation · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · Twin City Development Foundation · Ta John W and Anna H · North Carolina Baptist Hospital · Reynolds Foundation 186-8803582 · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · The Arts Council Inc · United Way of Forsyth County Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: JAM Marketing Partners Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~17 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 9.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 474112351 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on JAM Marketing Partners Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 17 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Winston-Salem Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Winston-Salem Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines