How much did TWIN CITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Education$703kCommunity Improvement$664kArts & Culture$260kHuman Services$233kEmployment$175kFood & Nutrition$63kYouth Development$50kHealth$40kPhilanthropy$40kOther$524k

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

2018

spacessocialtraining

2020

diversegirlspreparesalem corecore valuessincebecome

2021

sports medialowcitizensexcellenceteachersdevelopstartup

2022

senioradultspossibleconcerncareempowercause

2023

labsofferhabitat humanityparticular faithtechempowersalem

2024

sighttcacultural artscinemafilmprogrammingbank

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

03FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k10 grants · $248k
$50k–250k5 grants · $372k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants

WAKE FOREST UNIV HEALTH SCIENCES$110,000
WINSTON-SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY$72,000
GREATER W-S DEVELOPMENT CORP$70,000
FORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE$70,000
WINSTON-SALEMFORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOL$50,000
TRIAD CULTURAL ARTS INC$40,000
PIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP$30,000
MIRACLES IN SIGHT$25,000
APERTURE CINEMA$25,000
FINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONT$25,000
PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE$25,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NWNC$23,300
JAMES SHAW ACE ACADEMY$20,000
CENTER FOR CREATIVE ECONOMY$20,000
DOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM PARTNERSHIP$15,000

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 (FY18–24, $233k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.6M · 21 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$880k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

+32%

Still filing today

100%

82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

WF
WAKE FOREST UNIV HEALTH SCIENCES
2× · 2021–2024 · $210k · revenue +78%
WB
WINSTON-SALEM BUSINESS INC
4× · 2018–2024 · $155k · revenue +16%
PT
PIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP
5× · 2018–2024 · $120k · revenue +87%

Funded once

VC
VENTURE CAFE WINSTON-SALEM
one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue -30% · 37% of their budget
SENIOR SERVICES INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +119%
US
UNC SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -10%

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.

The Winston-Salem Foundation

Community Foundation (see P.2, Form 990, Part III for additional information)

Philanthropy

Winston-Salem Alliance

The winston-salem alliance assists with identifying and responding to needed changes in the economic makeup of the winston-salem community by acting on projects that have a direct impact on the creation of jobs and the economic vitality of…

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Greater Winston-Salem Inc

To promote and encourage business development in winston-salem and forysth county.

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Wpda Inc

The organization seeks to foster meaningful job growth, lessen the burdens of the governments of winston-salem and forsyth county by preventing economic deterioration of an at-risk area, and support the mission of local educational…

Community Improvement

The Millennium Fund Co Winston-Salem Foundation

Help in the development of downtown Winston-Salem, NC via projects, infrastructure, business recruitment, and site selection.

Philanthropy

Muse Winston-Salem

To preserve the dynamic history of the winston-salem and forsyth county, north carolina community through engaging exhibits and thought-provoking programming. plans are underway for a new permanent museum in winston- salem, nc.

Philanthropy

Nc State University Partnership

To support and benefit north carolina state university with the aim of creating new knowledge and improving the lives of the people of north carolina.

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WakeMed

The mission of wakemed is to improve the health and well-being of our community with outstanding and compassionate care to all.

Health

Research Triangle Institute

Research Triangle Institute is one of the world's leading research institutes, dedicated(see Sch O) to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice. Our staff of more than 5,300 provides research and technical expertise…

Science & Tech

Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University is an institution of higher education dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. It operates Wake Forest College, a graduate school of arts and sciences, a…

Education

Wireless Research Center of North Carolina

The Wireless Research Center is an independent, private nonprofit research center dedicated to applied research and engineering. Located in North Carolina's Research Triangle region, the WRC helps clients from around the world develop…

Science & Tech

Wilmington School of the Arts

Wilmington School of the Arts is a tuition-free, public charter school located in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Its mission is to inspire students to pursue excellence in academics and the arts by awakening and nuturing the creative…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Winston-Salem and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University Health Sciences. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/67

the rest of the field

15%

267/1,737

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

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

58/59

Grantees still filing

36/59

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$703,000Community Improvement$664,030Other$653,500Arts & Culture$260,000Human Services$233,000Employment$175,000Food & Nutrition$63,300

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.

The Winston-Salem FoundationNC92.7× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · North Carolina Baptist Hospital · Reynolds Foundation 186-8803582 · The Arts Council Inc · Ta John W and Anna H · The Millennium Fund CO Winston-Salem Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Truist Foundation Inc · Wake Forest University

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 TWIN CITY DEVELOPMENT 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

1get 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: DOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM PARTNERSHIP.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~198 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +60% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 561945804 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 DOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM PARTNERSHIP, 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 198 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 42% 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 Twin City Development Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Twin City Development 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.

TWIN CITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Twin City Development Foundation?

More from the funding graph

TWIN CITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

59 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Twin City Development Foundation?

More from the funding graph