· Private foundation
Twilley Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| BAND OF PARENTS | $10,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GREATER CHARLESTON | $10,000 |
| GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| FIRST TEE CENTRAL CAROLINA | $5,000 |
| FIELDS OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| USGA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL OF SOUTHERN PINES | $2,500 |
| RESOURCES FOR ARTFUL LIVING | $2,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $2,000 |
| BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,000 |
| RESTORE BADIN LAKE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Twilley Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 74% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 63% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +40%
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +23%- GFGOLF FORE FUN INC4× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- UGUNC GREENSBOROone grant, 2021 · $25k
- ACAUTHORA CARE HOSPICEone grant, 2021 · $5k
- WFWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY - FACE TO FACEone grant, 2024 · $5k
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 cga is a non-profit service organization that was formed in 1909 to conduct championships and tournaments for amateur golfers in north and south carolina, administer the usga handicap system in the carolinas, and support its membership…
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.
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.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
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.
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…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
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…
The north georgia community foundation helps people and non-profits invest generously in the lives of those who call our community home.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 31 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 74 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.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BAND OF PARENTS INC ↗
- Who funds GOLF FORE FUN INC ↗
- Who funds Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds Fields of Hope ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds USGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MOORE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY GSO INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds CAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RED DOG FARM ANIMAL RESCUE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HIRSCH WELLNESS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST TEE GREATER CHARLESTON ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds College Golf Fellowship ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACRES RESCUE ↗
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: Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Hillsdale Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation · Egerton Family Foundation Inc · Griffin Family Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Alexander Worth McAlister Foundation
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 Twilley 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.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% 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.