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Wakemed

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

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$883k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$8.3MHuman Services$5.6MRecreation & Sports$301kArts & Culture$287kEducation$275kFood & Nutrition$165kCrime & Legal$90kYouth Development$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $2,302,157, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,446,070 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $143,913 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $173k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $437k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAKE COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES$883,417
ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY$404,693
WAKE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY RIGHT CARE$350,000
DEBNAM CLINIC$131,520
HEALING TRANSITIONS INTL INC$125,000
MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM$75,000
INTERACT$55,000
NC FOR MILITARY EMPLOYMENT DBA NC4ME$50,000
NC SYMPHONY$48,000
CAPITAL AREA SOCCER LEAGUE$28,250
WAKEMED FOUNDATION$22,750
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$15,000
NC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS PROGRAM$15,000
NCIAP PEOPLE'S MEDICAL CARE$13,000
URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY$11,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Urban Ministries of Wake County: $17k → 8%URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY: $13k → 8%URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY: $11k → 8%URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY: $11k → 8%Interfaith Food Shuttle: $10k → 8%URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY: $10k → 8%Inter-Faith Food Shuttle: $10k → 8%Urban Ministries of Wake County: $10k → 8%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $10k → 8%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $10k → 8%Urban Ministries of Wake County: $7k → 8%URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY: $6k → 8%YMCA of the Triangle Area: $37k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $17k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $10k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $10k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 31 repeat orgs$618k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
15

Total granted

$17M
$539k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+21%

Still filing today

81%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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

  • ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +75%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $503k · revenue +33%
  • CAPITAL AREA SOCCER LEAGUE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $304k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • C
    C3HealthcareRx
    one grant, 2017 · $336k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO
    one grant, 2020 · $47k
  • TRIANGLE SPORTS COMMISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +147%
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
Wakemed

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

Health
2
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
3
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
4
Triangle Global Health Consortium Inc

The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…

Health
5
Care Share Health Alliance Inc

Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…

Health
6
Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Education and Research Foundation
Health
7
North Carolina Medical Society

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

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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
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…

—
10
Ncha Inc

To improve the health of the communities where we live and work by advocating for sound public policy and collaborative partnerships.

—
11
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
12
Community Care of North Carolina Inc

To foster and enhance quality, efficiency and access to health care services for patients in need of such services, particularly patient populations that are vulnerable and/or underserved.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Healthcare Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Raleigh School of Nurse Anesthesia. 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

41 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. 41 of the 51 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAKE COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES: $6,351,614 · OtherWAKE COUNTY HUMAN SERVICESWAKE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY: $2,200,000 · OtherWAKE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETYDEBNAM CLINIC: $1,507,538 · OtherDEBNAM CLINICWAKEMED: $565,468 · Other+21 more: $1,360,958 · Other+21 moreALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC: $3,196,627 · HealthALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INCAmerican Heart Association Inc: $502,761 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncHEALING TRANSITIONS INC: $502,500 · HealthHEALING TRANSITIONS INC+12 more: $432,700 · Health+12 moreWAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $221,500 · EducationRALEIGH SCHOOL OF NURSE ANESTHESIA: $142,215 · EducationCARY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET: $13,000 · Education+1 more: $5,750 · EducationURBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $108,660 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $74,000 · Human ServicesINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $40,000 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $138,016 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $29,860 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA VETERANS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Public BenefitPRETTY IN PINK FOUNDATION INC: $37,100 · Philanthropy
Other$11,985,578Health$4,634,588Education$382,465Human Services$222,660Arts & Culture$167,876Public Benefit$50,000Philanthropy$37,100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC: $3,196,627 over 9y, 23% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $502,761 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING TRANSITIONS INC: $502,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCAPITAL AREA SOCCER LEAGUE INC: $304,250 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMARBLES KIDS MUSEUM: $235,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetWAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $221,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetTHE APHASIA PROJECT: $150,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetTHE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC: $145,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetRALEIGH SCHOOL OF NURSE ANESTHESIA: $142,215 over 3y, 44% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $138,016 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $108,660 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $74,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA PHYSICIANS HEALTH PROGRAM INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $57,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNCIAP MEDICAL CARE INC: $56,600 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA VETERANS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPRETTY IN PINK FOUNDATION INC: $37,100 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS - NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PINES INC: $32,466 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION: $29,860 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE TRIANGLE: $25,850 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS: $25,040 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTRIANGLE SPORTS COMMISSION: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCASA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLUNG CANCER INITIATIVE: $24,950 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNeighborHealth Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCARY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET: $13,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetEAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN RALEIGH ALLIANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOCCONEECHEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #421: $9,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOAK CITY CARES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBAND TOGETHER: $7,050 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP: $5,750 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds WAKE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds HEALING TRANSITIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA SOCCER LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE APHASIA PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds RALEIGH SCHOOL OF NURSE ANESTHESIA ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds URBAN MINISTRIES OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA PHYSICIANS HEALTH PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds NCIAP MEDICAL CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
  • Who funds PRETTY IN PINK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PINES INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE TRIANGLE ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS ↗
  • Who funds TRIANGLE SPORTS COMMISSION ↗
  • Who funds CASA ↗
  • Who funds LUNG CANCER INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds NeighborHealth Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SPINAL CORD INJURY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CARY DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET ↗
  • Who funds EAST COAST GREENWAY ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN RALEIGH ALLIANCE INC ↗

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…Duke University Healt…North Carolina Commun…Rex Hospital IncDuke Energy FoundationW Trent Ragland Jr Fo…Aj Fletcher FoundationUnited Way of the Gre…Carolina Hurricanes F…Credit Suisse America…The Winston-Salem Fou…Bell Schaefer Family …
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC37.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Rex Hospital Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Credit Suisse Americas Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation

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 Wakemed funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wakemed. 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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