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Twin City Development Foundation

To fund, through grants, public education and economic development in forsyth county and surrounding areas.

$915k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Community Improvement$1.5MEducation$1.3MArts & Culture$225kEmployment$212kHuman Services$191kFood & Nutrition$63kHealth$63kYouth Development$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $457k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WS FOUNDATIONWSFCS FUTURES FUND$400,000
NC MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INC$50,000
WINSTON-SALEMFORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOL$40,000
TRIAD CULTURAL ARTS INC$35,000
TROSA INC$30,000
GREATER W-S DEVELOPMENT CORP$30,000
SG ATKINS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$30,000
FORSYTH JAIL AND PRISON MINISTRIES$25,000
CAROLINA UNIVERSITY$25,000
KALEIDEUM$25,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF FORSYTH$25,000
WINSTON STARTS$25,000
NEW HOPE RESOURCE CTR$25,000
CREATIVE CENTER OF NC$25,000
WINSTON-SALEM AUTISM FOUNDATION$20,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–25, $239k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SENIOR SERVICES INC: $50k → 15%FINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONT: $25k → 15%YMCA OF NWNC: $75k → 15%PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE: $25k → 15%YMCA OF NWNC: $10k → 15%DRESS FOR SUCCESS WINSTON-SALEM: $10k → 15%W-S URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 15%DRESS FOR SUCCESS WINSTON-SALEM: $6k → 15%ABC OF NORTH CAROLINA: $28k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 30 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
36

Total granted

$2.2M
$897k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+7%

Still filing today

93%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEmploymentPhilanthropyOther

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 UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
    2× · 2021–2024 · $210k · revenue +27%
  • FT
    FORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $182k · revenue +21%
  • PT
    PIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP
    7× · 2018–2025 · $160k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • AC
    AGILE CITY WINSTON-SALEM
    one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue -40% · 37% of their budget
  • WS
    Winston-Salem State University
    one grant, 2024 · $72k
  • SENIOR SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -33%

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.

1
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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2
Greater Winston-Salem Inc

Greater winston-salem inc. is a leading business organization in winston- salem and forsyth county. the organization is focused on establishing winston-salem as a technology-driven economic center. greater winston-salem inc. offers…

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3
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
4
Muse Winston-Salem

To connect, enrich, and enlarge the community through history, storytelling, an informed, balanced perspective that leads to acceptance, understanding, and belonging.

Philanthropy
5
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
6
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
7
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

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8
North Carolina Azalea Festival at Wilmin

The North Carolina Azalea Festival celebrates our community's art, gardens, history, and culture through educational, recreational, and family-friendly events that promote volunteerism, civic pride, and regional economic growth.

Arts & Culture
9
Womens Resource Center of Greensboro Inc

To promote the self-reliance of women by assessing needs, providing services, and acting as a gateway to community resources; to seek solutions for unmet needs by providing strategic leadership through collaboration and partnerships within…

Human Services
10
North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law
Crime & Legal
11
North Carolina Empowerment Organization
Civil Rights
12
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 Development Corp and the most unlike its peers is Empower Tech Scholarship Fund. 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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%9%<5yr16%14%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr12%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%9%<5yr16%12%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr12%28%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/73
the rest of the field
17%
294/1,731

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.

04the grantee network

66 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. 66 of the 73 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/66
Grantees still filing
30/66
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREATER WINSTON-SALEM DEVELOPMENT CORP — $185,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER WINSTON-SALEM DEV…PIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP — $160,000 · Community ImprovementPIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHI…AGILE CITY WINSTON-SALEM — $150,000 · Community ImprovementAGILE CITY WINSTON-SALEMDOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM FO…WINSTON STARTS — $73,530 · Community ImprovementWINSTON STARTSSG ATKINS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $55,000 · Community ImprovementSG ATKINS COMMUNITY DEVEL…Center for Creative Economy — $45,000 · Community ImprovementCenter for Creative Econo…WINSTON SALEM CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND THE ARTS — $35,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $37,500 · Community ImprovementWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $210,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY…FORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $182,000 · EducationFORSYTH TECHNICAL COMM…Winston-Salem State University Foundation Inc — $85,000 · EducationWinston-Salem State Un…SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE — $70,000 · EducationSALEM ACADEMY AND COLL…University of North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation Inc — $50,000 · EducationUniversity of North Ca…CROSBY SCHOLARS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP — $40,000 · EducationCROSBY SCHOLARS COMMUN…WINSTON-SALEM STREET SCHOOL — $36,000 · EducationEMPOWER TECH SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $30,000 · EducationCAROLINA UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationWinston Salem Forsyth County Schools — $90,000 · OtherWinston Salem Forsyth Cou…Winston-Salem State University — $72,000 · OtherWinston-Salem State Unive…MOJI COFFEE AND MORE — $65,000 · OtherMOJI COFFEE AND MORETRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC — $60,000 · OtherTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTI…GREATER WINSTON-SALEM INC FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC — $63,300 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK …FORSYTH JAIL AND PRISON MINISTRIES — $40,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC — $50,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF F…FORSYTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Other+16 more — $291,500 · Other+16 moreThe Winston-Salem Foundation — $400,000 · PhilanthropyThe Winston-Sa…CREATIVE CENTER OF NORTH CAROLINA — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCREATIVE CENTE…JAMES SHAW ACE ACADEMY — $20,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $20,000 · PhilanthropyKALEIDEUM — $95,000 · Arts & CultureKALEIDEUMTriad Cultural Arts Inc — $75,000 · Arts & CultureTriad Cultu…NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROL…WINSTON-SALEM THEATRE ALLIANCE INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureWINSTON-SAL…Winston-Salem Mixxer Inc — $30,000 · Arts & CultureWinston-Sal…Downtown Winston-Salem Community Cinema — $25,000 · Arts & CultureDowntown Wi…NORTH CAROLINA BLACK REPERTORY COMPANY INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROL…WINSTON-SALEM SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · Arts & CultureHispanic League — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626) — $85,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVICES INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesABC OF NC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $28,000 · Human ServicesFINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONT — $25,000 · Human ServicesPIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesDress for Success Winston-Salem — $16,000 · Human ServicesWinston-Salem Urban League — $10,000 · Human ServicesWinston Salem Industries for the Blind Inc — $85,000 · EmploymentTHE DO SCHOOL — $50,000 · EmploymentSouthside Rides Foundation Inc — $40,000 · EmploymentTCK PROVIDENCE INC — $40,000 · EmploymentREACH Women's Network — $10,000 · Employment
Community Improvement$816,030Education$738,000Other$811,800Philanthropy$465,000Arts & Culture$370,000Human Services$239,000Employment$225,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES — $210,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WINSTON-SALEM DEVELOPMENT CORP — $185,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetFORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $182,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetPIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP — $160,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetAGILE CITY WINSTON-SALEM — $150,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetKALEIDEUM — $95,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWinston-Salem State University Foundation Inc — $85,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWinston Salem Industries for the Blind Inc — $85,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626) — $85,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDOWNTOWN WINSTON-SALEM FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 5y, 42% of budgetTriad Cultural Arts Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetWINSTON STARTS — $73,530 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE — $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMOJI COFFEE AND MORE — $65,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC — $63,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSG ATKINS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $55,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE DO SCHOOL — $50,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Creative Economy — $45,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetGREATER WINSTON-SALEM INC FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetCROSBY SCHOLARS COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFORSYTH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFORSYTH JAIL AND PRISON MINISTRIES — $40,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTCK PROVIDENCE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWINSTON-SALEM STREET SCHOOL — $36,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetWINSTON SALEM CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND THE ARTS — $35,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetWINSTON-SALEM THEATRE ALLIANCE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetEMPOWER TECH SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $30,000 over 1y, 92% of budgetWinston-Salem Mixxer Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetABC OF NC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $28,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCREATIVE CENTER OF NORTH CAROLINA — $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDowntown Winston-Salem Community Cinema — $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetFINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONT — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMIRACLES IN SIGHT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetWINSTON-SALEM POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $21,500 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BLACK REPERTORY COMPANY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAEROX FOUNDATION FKA MRC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetJAMES SHAW ACE ACADEMY — $20,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetDress for Success Winston-Salem — $16,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetLEAD Girls of NC Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetLEADERSHIP WINSTON-SALEM — $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budget
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 Fou…Reynolds American Fou…Reynolds Foundation 1…North Carolina Baptis…Forsyth Memorial Hosp…The Arts Council IncTa John W and Anna H …Truist Foundation IncZ Smith Reynolds Foun…Wake Forest UniversityThe Millennium Fund C…James G Hanes Memoria…
The Winston-Salem FoundationNC82.9× affinity44 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 · Reynolds Foundation 186-8803582 · North Carolina Baptist Hospital · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · The Arts Council Inc · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Wake Forest University · The Millennium Fund CO Winston-Salem Foundation · James G Hanes Memorial Fund

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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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