· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 117 grants below total $17,210,416 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $161,601,582 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $144,391,166 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k37 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+25 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Reynolda House Inc | $1,346,455 |
| Wake Forest Univ Health Sciences | $1,308,253 |
| UNC Chapel Hill | $940,591 |
| The Regents of the University of Colorado | $734,427 |
| Brigham & Women's Hospital | $603,639 |
| Montclair State University | $507,500 |
| Virginia Tech | $500,000 |
| Purdue University | $500,000 |
| University of Virginia | $500,000 |
| Catholic University of America The | $500,000 |
| University of Notre Dame | $500,000 |
| Arizona State University | $500,000 |
| University of Mississippi The | $500,000 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | $420,400 |
| Belmont University | $400,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $800k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
86 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 62 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.8M 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
- WFWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES7× · 2019–2025 · $6.9M · revenue +64%
- RHREYNOLDA HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $5.9M · revenue +5%
- CMCarnegie Mellon University6× · 2019–2024 · $581k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- DBDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $229k · revenue +18%
- AFAMERICAN FORENSIC ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $135k · revenue +52%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $103k · revenue +33%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbell University and the most unlike its peers is Love & Hope Fellowship Church. 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 51 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
163 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. 163 of the 229 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds REYNOLDA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The Winston-Salem Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds NORTH MISSISSIPPI EDUCATION CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The University of Tulsa ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST COLLEGE BIRTHPLACE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VISION COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
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: National Collegiate Athletic Association · AIDS United · Emory University · Reynolds American Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Twin City Development Foundation · North Carolina Baptist Hospital · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · American Council of Learned Societies · Foundation for the Carolinas · Triangle Community Foundation Inc
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 Wake Forest University 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.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Hued Songs Inc — 12% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc — 5% of income from government
- The University of Tulsa — 5% of income from government
- Metropolitan Charities Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- George Fox University — 2% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
- Ramapo College Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
- Stonehill College Inc — 0% of income from government
- Miracle of Love Inc — 0% 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.