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Wakemed Group Return at a glance

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Wakemed Group Return

To maintain and operate properties, aid and promote the improvement and development of wakemed's education and scientific programs, and to transform healthcare through philanthropy by raising friends, funds, and future leaders for wakemed.

$532k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$253k
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$1.6MFood & Nutrition$250kCrime & Legal$200kHousing & Shelter$79kEducation$50k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $354,469, the rows itemized in this filing. The $531,876 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $177,407 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

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $253k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$517M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAKEMED$253,122
SAFE CHILD$50,000
ME FINE FOUNDATION$30,000
WAKE EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS PA$21,347
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 (FY23–23, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $73k → 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 5 repeat orgs$454k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$2.1M
$454k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+5%

Still filing today

80%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthCrime & LegalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • W
    WakeMed
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +51%
  • SAFECHILD
    9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +79%
  • PS
    PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +374%

Funded once

  • MEALS ON WHEELS OF WAKE COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -12%
  • WC
    WAKE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC (DBA RIGHTCARE)
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -372%
  • RM
    RELY MD
    one grant, 2020 · $79k
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
Alliance Medical Ministry Inc

Provide medical services for uninsured low income individuals.

Health
4
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

—
5
Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Education and Research Foundation
Health
6
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
7
Weeks Medical Center

Weeks medical center's compassionate staff is committed to providing high quality and efficient health care services to ensure the well-being of our patients, families and communities.

Health
8
Innovation Health Center

Work with local, state and national health care providers and leaders, policy-makers and other experts to develop innovative solutions and strategies to provide cost effective health services for medicaid beneficiaries and children.

—
9
Firsthealth of the Carolinas Inc

To service the community's total health care needs.

Health
10
Farmer Foodshare Inc

Our mission is to increase access to fresh, local food for all while supporting the viability of marginalized farmers to create a more equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition
11
Hospice of Wake County Inc

To care for individuals and families with compassion, support, and expertise as they navigate the end of life or life-changing illness.

—
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advance Community Health Inc; the most unlike its peers is Me Fine Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WakeMed: $1,330,282 · HealthWakeMedME FINE FOUNDATION: $165,000 · HealthME FINE FOUNDATIONWAKE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC (DBA RIGHTCARE): $100,000 · HealthWAKE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC (DBA RIGHTCA…+1 more: $25,000 · HealthSAFECHILD: $450,000 · Crime & LegalSAFECHILDMEALS ON WHEELS OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $125,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHE…RELY MD: $78,750 · OtherRELY MDWAKE EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS PA: $70,310 · OtherWAKE EMERGEN…INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $72,500 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $52,500 · Food & NutritionPUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC: $50,000 · Education
Health$1,620,282Crime & Legal$450,000Other$274,060Human Services$72,500Food & Nutrition$52,500Education$50,000

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 budgetWakeMed: $1,330,282 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAFECHILD: $450,000 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetME FINE FOUNDATION: $165,000 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $125,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $72,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $52,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% 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.

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 Leon Levine Found…Triangle Community Fo…Duke Energy FoundationDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Leon Levine FoundationNC13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Leon Levine Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Group Return funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wakemed Group Return. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 11 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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