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Twilley Family Foundation at a glance

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Twilley Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$84k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$78kHealth$53kPhilanthropy$49kRecreation & Sports$26kAnimals$15kHuman Services$13kEnvironment$11kScience & Tech$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $53k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$12,500
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$10,000
GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER$10,000
BAND OF PARENTS$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GREATER CHARLESTON$10,000
FIELDS OF HOPE$5,000
COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
FIRST TEE CENTRAL CAROLINA$5,000
USGA FOUNDATION$2,500
EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL OF SOUTHERN PINES$2,500
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$2,000
RESOURCES FOR ARTFUL LIVING$2,000
THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION$1,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY$1,000
BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE$1,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BAND OF PARENTS: $10k → 17%MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO: $1k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $1k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $1k → 16%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER OF GREENSBO: $1k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $1k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $1k → 16%GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $1k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NJ
CA
MO
VA
MD
NC
SC
OK
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Twilley Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 74% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 63%.

Twilley Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$155k · 31 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
30

Total granted

$155k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+10%

Still filing today

81%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +40%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +23%
  • GF
    GOLF FORE FUN INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • UG
    UNC GREENSBORO
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • AC
    AUTHORA CARE HOSPICE
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • WF
    WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY - FACE TO FACE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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
Carolinas Golf Association

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…

Recreation & Sports
2
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
3
Carolina Meadows Foundation Inc

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.

Human Services
4
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

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

Health
5
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
6
Greenville College

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.

Education
7
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

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…

Science & Tech
8
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
9
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
10
North Georgia Community Foundation Inc

The north georgia community foundation helps people and non-profits invest generously in the lives of those who call our community home.

Philanthropy
11
North Greenville University

North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.

Education
12
The Foundation of Firsthealth Inc

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).

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 74 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
32/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNC GREENSBORO: $25,000 · OtherUNC GREENSBOROCANTERBURY SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherCANTERBURY SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $12,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GREATER CHARLESTON: $11,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GREATER CHARLESTONCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC+42 more: $91,750 · Other+42 moreUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…Kiawah Cares Foundation: $2,000 · PhilanthropyKiawah Cares …+2 more: $2,000 · Philanthropy+2 moreWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $11,000 · EducationWAKE FORES…HOPE ACADEMY GSO INC: $3,000 · EducationHOPE ACADE…BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $3,000 · EducationBILLION OY…GUILFORD TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · EducationGUILFORD T…SANDHILLS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $3,000 · EducationSANDHILLS …SOUTH CAROLINA JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationBAND OF PARENTS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $3,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesWomens Resource Center of Greensboro Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesGOLF FORE FUN INC: $9,000 · Recreation & SportsUSGA FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsFIRST TEE GREATER CHARLESTON: $2,250 · Recreation & SportsTHE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $6,000 · AnimalsRED DOG FARM ANIMAL RESCUE NETWORK: $3,000 · AnimalsHOPE ACRES RESCUE: $2,000 · Animals
Other$165,250Philanthropy$34,000Education$26,000Human Services$18,000Recreation & Sports$15,750Arts & Culture$15,000Animals$11,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOLF FORE FUN INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUSGA FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MOORE COUNTY: $4,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHIRSCH WELLNESS NETWORK INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetRED DOG FARM ANIMAL RESCUE NETWORK: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY GSO INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUILFORD TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAROLINAS GOLF FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSANDHILLS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST TEE GREATER CHARLESTON: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKiawah Cares Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE ACRES RESCUE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWomens Resource Center of Greensboro Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCollege Golf Fellowship: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLIVIASTRONG FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESTORE BADIN LAKE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAsheville Poverty Initiative: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFELLOWSHIP HALL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

Amg Charitable Gift F…Lincoln Financial Fou…Community Foundation …Tannenbaum-Sternberge…Foundation for the Ca…Hillsdale FundDuke Energy FoundationMoses H Cone Memorial…Egerton Family Founda…Griffin Family Founda…The Cannon Foundation…Alexander Worth McAli…
Amg Charitable Gift FoundationCO25.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Twilley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Twilley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 74 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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