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Wake Forest University Health Sciences

See schedule o for continuationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES (at times also referred to as "wake forest university school of medicine", "wfuhs or "the filing organization") is an integral part of atrium health wake forest baptist (at times also referred to as "ahwfb"), a preeminent learning health system and academic medical…

$80M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$140k
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 FY2017–2024.

Education$4.5MHealth$3.7MCommunity Improvement$503kPhilanthropy$144kRecreation & Sports$100kHuman Services$100kFood & Nutrition$83kScience & Tech$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $301,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $79,903,564 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $79,602,164 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $106k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $190k
$30,257
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILKES COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$139,868
PIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP$50,000
GREATER HIGH POINT FOOD ALLIANCE$47,500
ACTION4EQUITY INC$30,257
LEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC$18,275
CANCER SERVICES INC$10,000
UROLOGY CARE FOUNDATION INC$5,500
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 (FY17–23, $296k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ABC of NC Child Development: $10k → 15%SENIOR SERVICES INC: $121k → 15%Senior Services Inc: $50k → 15%SENIOR SERVICES INC: $25k → 15%SENIOR SERVICES INC: $13k → 15%YMCA OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA: $49k → 15%CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC: $12k → 15%YMCA OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA: $10k → 15%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA: $6k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
WI
MA
PA
CO
MD
NC
DC

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.4M · 18 repeat orgs$836k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
36

Total granted

$8.4M
$696k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+29%

Still filing today

94%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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

  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2023 · $4.0M · revenue +33%
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST HOSPITAL
    3× · 2018–2021 · $2.7M · revenue +82%
  • A
    ACTION4EQUITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $434k · revenue +68% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • UC
    USA CYCLING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +46%
  • WS
    Winston Salem Forsyth County Schools
    one grant, 2018 · $55k
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +29%

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
Wilkes Medical Center Foundation

To support and carry out the functions and purposes of wrmc hospital operating corporation (dba atrium health wake forest baptist wilkes medical center) to enhance the delivery of quality health care within the organization's region.

Health
2
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
3
North Carolina Medical Society

To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.

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4
Wrmc Hospital Operating Corporation

To improve health, elevate hope, and advance healing for all.

Health
5
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

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

Health
6
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
7
The Medical Foundation of Wake Forest University Health Sciences and North Car

See schedule oto render aid and assistance to wake forest university health sciences (wfuhs) and north carolina baptist hospital (ncbh) in their pursuits by approved methods for the promotion of medical science and medical knowledge, the…

Health
8
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
9
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center

See schedule owake forest university baptist medical center (at times also referred to as the "medical center or "wfubmc or "the filing organization") is an integral part of atrium health wake forest baptist (at times also referred to as…

Health
10
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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11
Wake Forest Emergency Providers

The filing organization is dedicated to providing emergency health care to the community. the organization's primary purpose is the promotion of health for all residents of the communities served.

Health
12
Davie Medical Center

To improve health, elevate hope, and advance healing for all.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexington Medical Center Foundation Inc and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr16%7%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr12%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr16%8%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr15%72%20–35yr14%6%35–55yr12%9%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
14%
2,845/20,093

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

49 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. 49 of the 56 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
37/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $4,005,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYACTION4EQUITY — $434,447 · EducationACTION4EQUITY+4 more — $113,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST HOSPITAL — $2,721,059 · HealthNORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST HOSPITALDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC — $150,000 · Health+15 more — $263,878 · Health+15 moreTOWN OF NORTH WILKESBORO — $139,868 · OtherTOWN OF N…GREATER WINSTON-SALEM INC — $100,000 · OtherGREATER W…WINSTON-SALEM ALLIANCE — $80,000 · OtherWINSTON-S…Winston Salem Forsyth County Schools — $55,159 · OtherWinston S…LEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $29,488 · OtherGREATER HIGH POINT FOOD ALLIANCE — $74,577 · OtherGREATER H…NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $65,000 · OtherNATIONAL …WINSTON-SALEM SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $40,000 · Other+13 more — $168,452 · Other+13 morePIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP — $250,000 · Community ImprovementDAVIE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION INC — $45,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER WINSTON-SALEM DEVELOPMENT CORP — $33,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,000 · Community ImprovementSENIOR SERVICES INC — $208,653 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626) — $64,697 · Human ServicesCRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC — $12,150 · Human ServicesABC OF NC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesThe Winston-Salem Foundation — $134,333 · PhilanthropyAlleghany Memorial Hospital Foundation INC — $10,050 · PhilanthropyHUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · PhilanthropyUSA CYCLING INC — $100,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$4,552,447Health$3,134,937Other$752,544Community Improvement$338,000Human Services$295,500Philanthropy$150,383Recreation & Sports$100,000

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 — $4,005,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BAPTIST HOSPITAL — $2,721,059 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACTION4EQUITY — $434,447 over 2y, 26% of budgetPIEDMONT TRIAD PARTNERSHIP — $250,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC — $208,653 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC — $150,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUSA CYCLING INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER WINSTON-SALEM INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetWINSTON-SALEM ALLIANCE — $80,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetGREATER HIGH POINT FOOD ALLIANCE — $74,577 over 2y, 18% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626) — $64,697 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCATAWBA MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC — $61,878 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION INC — $45,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGREATER WINSTON-SALEM DEVELOPMENT CORP — $33,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $32,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $29,488 over 2y, 12% of budgetWINSTON-SALEM POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUROLOGY CARE FOUNDATION INC — $20,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPEDIATRIC TRAUMA SOCIETY — $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCANCER SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PIEDMONT TRIAD INC — $16,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER WINSTON-SALEM INC FOUNDATION — $15,500 over 1y, 26% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation Inc — $13,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA PHYSICIANS HEALTH PROGRAM INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC — $12,150 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlleghany Memorial Hospital Foundation INC — $10,050 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CENTER FOR FORSYTH COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF WINSTON-SALEM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAGILE CITY WINSTON-SALEM — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGREENSBORO AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE OF WINSTON SALEM INC — $7,952 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STROKE ASSOCIATION — $6,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetHUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONE HEALTH PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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…North Carolina Baptis…Reynolds American Fou…Forsyth Memorial Hosp…The Cannon Foundation…Twin City Development…Ta John W and Anna H …Foundation for the Ca…The Arts Council IncUnited Way of Forsyth…James G Hanes Memoria…Strickland Family Fou…
The Winston-Salem FoundationNC39.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Winston-Salem Foundation · North Carolina Baptist Hospital · Reynolds American Foundation · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Twin City Development Foundation · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Arts Council Inc · United Way of Forsyth County Inc · James G Hanes Memorial Fund · Strickland Family Foundation Cynthia a S Graham

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 Health Sciences 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 · 20%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 56 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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