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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $301,400, the rows itemized in this filing. The $79,903,564 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $79,602,164 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MA
PA
CO
MD
NC
DC
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +33% for those 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%
+33%

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
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

  • 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%
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
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
2
Rex Hospital Inc

To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Health
3
Wakemed

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

Health
4
North Carolina Medical Society

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

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5
Carolina Medicorp Enterprises Inc

Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…

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6
Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health
7
Presbyterian Medical Care Corp

Mission novant health exists to improve the health of our communities, one person at a time. vision we, the novant health team, will deliver the most remarkable patient experience, in every dimension, every time. values -compassion: we…

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8
Mcleod Physician Associates Ii

Mcleod physician associates ii operates as a part of the mcleod health system. the mission of mcleod health is to improve the overall health and well being of people living within south carolina and eastern north carolina by providing…

Health
9
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
10
North Carolina Baptist Hospital

See schedule o for continuationnorth carolina baptist hospital (at times also referred to as the "hospital or "ncbh or "the filing organization") is an integral part of atrium health wake forest baptist (ahwfb), a preeminent learning…

Health
11
Novant Medical Group Inc

Our cause we create a healthier future and bring remarkable experiences to life. discover we consistently seek to innovate, courageously transform ourselves and find new ways to add value for our patients, communities and one another.…

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12
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atrium Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. 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

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
38/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetGREATER WINSTON-SALEM INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetUSA CYCLING INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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 budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWINSTON-SALEM POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetUROLOGY CARE FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPEDIATRIC TRAUMA SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF WINSTON-SALEM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAGILE CITY WINSTON-SALEM: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CENTER FOR FORSYTH COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUGH CHATHAM MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STROKE ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCONE HEALTH PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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

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 Wake Forest University Health Sciences funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wake Forest University Health Sciences. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
    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.

    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 56 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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