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W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation at a glance

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W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
68
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.7MArts & Culture$680kHuman Services$616kHealth$428kYouth Development$268kRecreation & Sports$115kHousing & Shelter$96kFood & Nutrition$96kOther$0
02FY2025 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k41 grants · $113k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $301k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $495k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NC MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION$250,000
ELIZABETH VANN MOORE FOUNDATION$200,000
NCSU FOUNDATION$95,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY$50,000
HEALING TRANSITIONS$50,000
WAKE MED FOUNDATION$50,000
NC MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION$50,000
SAINT MARYS SCHOOL$41,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE ALBEMABLE$20,000
CAROLINA BALLET INC$20,000
TRANSITIONS LIFECARE$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,100
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAKE COUNTY$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $608k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SOCIETY INC: $100k → 14%CANINES FOR SERVICES INC: $5k → 12%CANINES FOR SERVICE INC: $5k → 12%CANINES FOR SERVICES INC: $5k → 12%CANINES FOR SERVICES INC: $5k → 12%CANINES FOR SERVICES INC: $5k → 12%SAINT SAVIOURS CENTER: $10k → 8%DIAPER TRAIN: $10k → 8%DIAPER TRAIN: $10k → 8%DIAPER TRAIN: $10k → 8%NOTE IN THE POCKET: $5k → 8%NOTE IN THE POCKET INC: $3k → 8%RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INCORPORATED: $50k → 8%RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INCORPORATED: $50k → 8%RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INCORPORATED: $10k → 8%WOMENS CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY INC': $1k → 8%NOTE IN THE POCKET INC: $7k → 8%STEPUP MINISTRY: $5k → 8%NOTE IN THE POCKET INC: $3k → 8%SETUP MINISTRY: $5k → 8%WOMEN CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY: $5k → 8%TAMMY LYNN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 8%WHEELS4HOPE: $10k → 8%WHEELS4HOPE: $10k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $200k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT INC: $10k → 8%GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $10k → 8%GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $10k → 8%GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $10k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE: $5k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE: $5k → 8%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE: $5k → 8%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 76 repeat orgs$789k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

76 repeat relationships: 60 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
43

Total granted

$4.7M
$732k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-1%

Still filing today

76%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SM
    SAINT MARYS SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +16%
  • EV
    ELIZABETH VANN MOORE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $654k · revenue ×16 · 58% of their budget
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $252k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • TY
    The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%
  • TR
    THE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -17%
  • TS
    The Society Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -75%
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
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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2
North Carolina Chamber

The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…

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3
Wake County Smart Start Inc

Wake county smart start invests in young children, their families, and a connected early childhood system that supports and prepares them for school and life ahead.

Education
4
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services
5
Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina Inc

Our mission is to improve the economic well-being and quality of life for all north carolinians. we do this by collaborating with state, regional, local, and private-sector partners in new business recruitment, existing employer support,…

Community Improvement
6
North Carolina Bar Association

The north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…

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7
North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ

The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…

Education
8
Family Promise of Wake County Inc

Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.

Housing & Shelter
9
North Carolina Victim Assistance Network

North carolina victim assistance network promotes the rights and needs of crime victims by educating north carolina's citizens and public policy leaders about the devastating impact that crime has on our society. serving our members as a…

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10
North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law
Crime & Legal
11
Hospice of Gaston County Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

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12
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys Club of Wake County Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 127 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/80
Grantees still filing
49/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT MARYS SCHOOL: $1,403,436 · EducationSAINT MARYS SCHOOLNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUND…WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $125,000 · EducationWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL+12 more: $172,000 · Education+12 moreTHE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · OtherTHE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION…WAKE MED FOUNDATION: $125,000 · OtherWAKE MED FOUNDATIONHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $105,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY: $75,100 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $70,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC: $55,000 · OtherNC AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $50,000 · Other+66 more: $802,300 · Other+66 moreELIZABETH VANN MOORE FOUNDATION: $654,220 · Arts & CultureELIZABETH VANN MOORE FO…NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC: $251,800 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM O…CAROLINA BALLET INC: $107,500 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA BALLET INCNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $60,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $53,200 · Arts & CultureThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $200,000 · Human ServicesThe Young Me…THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesTHE RALEIGH …The Society Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesThe Society …THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE GREEN CH…DIAPER TRAIN: $40,000 · Human ServicesDIAPER TRAINTAMMY LYNN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCanines for Service Inc: $25,000 · Human Services+6 more: $73,000 · Human Services+6 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE ALBEMARLE INC: $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $45,200 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS' CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEALING TRANSITIONS INC: $75,000 · HealthALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC: $60,000 · HealthHAVEN HOUSE INC: $20,000 · HealthSOUTHLIGHT HEALTHCARE INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE CARING COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthTRIANGLE SPORTS COMMISSION: $115,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$1,845,436Other$1,432,400Arts & Culture$1,126,720Human Services$613,000Youth Development$200,200Health$173,000Recreation & Sports$115,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT MARYS SCHOOL: $1,403,436 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetELIZABETH VANN MOORE FOUNDATION: $654,220 over 4y, 58% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC: $251,800 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRIANGLE SPORTS COMMISSION: $115,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC: $110,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCAROLINA BALLET INC: $107,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE ALBEMARLE INC: $105,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $105,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHEALING TRANSITIONS INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetARISE COLLECTIVE INC: $47,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $45,200 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS' CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetMARBLES KIDS MUSEUM: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWith Love From Jesus Ministries: $45,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDIAPER TRAIN: $40,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $38,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORRAL RIDING ACADEMY: $32,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSAFECHILD: $32,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA PLACE AT THE TABLE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTAMMY LYNN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCanines for Service Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCASA: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CITY OF RALEIGH MUSEUM: $20,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetWHEELS4HOPE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHIGHER ED WORKS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNOTE IN THE POCKET INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $16,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMISSION TRIANGLE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF RALEIGH INC: $10,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGABIS GROUNDS COFFEE SHOP: $10,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetThe Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPUP MINISTRY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% 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.

Triangle Community Fo…Bell Koonce Burnette …North Carolina Commun…John William Pope Fou…Aj Fletcher FoundationUnited Way of the Gre…Duke Energy FoundationHillsdale FundDuke University Healt…Bell Schaefer Family …Bell Cook Family Foun…The Cannon Foundation…
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC83.7× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Hillsdale Fund · Duke University Health System Inc · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · Bell Cook Family Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc

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 W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 127 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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