· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $141k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $467k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WRMC HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION | $466,726 |
| WILKES DENTAL CONSORTIUM INC | $150,000 |
| SAMARITAN KITCHEN OF WILKES INC | $50,000 |
| WILKES COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $30,000 |
| SAFE SPOT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF WILKES | $25,302 |
| WILKES RESCUE SQUAD INC | $25,000 |
| CARENET COUNSELING OF WILKES INC | $24,645 |
| ADULT ENRICHMENT SERVICES OF WILKES | $15,675 |
| THE CATHERINE H BARBER MEMORIAL SHELTER | $10,000 |
| THE CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION TEAM OF WILKES COUNTY | $10,000 |
| WILKES DEVELOPMENTAL DAY SCHOOL | $7,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% 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.
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 +49% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $283k 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
- WHWRMC HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION2× · 2021–2024 · $510k · revenue +157%
- WRWILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC3× · 2020–2023 · $352k · revenue ×16
- WRWILKES RESCUE SQUAD INC3× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- BFBOOMER FERGUSON ELEMENTARY PTOone grant, 2023 · $40k
- TCTHANKFUL COMMUNITY CLUB INCone grant, 2023 · $33k
- SCSHEPHERD'S CROSSROADS VFD INCone grant, 2022 · $27k · 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.
United way of wilkes county is dedicated to improving the lives of our citizens by underwriting identified programs that enhance their well-being through our 21 partner agencies. the united way of wilkes county annually impacts over 32,000…
To provide jobs and training to individuals who, due to physical or mental handicaps, have been unable to obtain a regular position in the workforce of the community. basic skills such as mathematics and personal grooming are taught by the…
The organization provides training and work programs for physically and/or mentally handicapped adults of wilkes county, nc. average enrollment = 40
Economic development of wilkes county
To provide services, education, and information that promote quality of life and active aging for senior citizens.
Ensure children enter school healthy and ready to succeed.
Established for the purposes of providing emergency medical services to the residents of winston county.
Provide an all volunteer fire protection & emergency services for a section of yancey county, north carolina.
West Carter County Fire Department serves West Carter County, Tennessee as a volunteer fire department.
Provide emergency human services
To provide fire department services for the community of wise, nc and surrounding areas
to prevent the loss of life and to control or reduce the loss of property by applying all of our knowledge and resources.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adult Enrichment Services of Wilkes and the most unlike its peers is Echo Ministry. 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 27 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 31 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
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 WRMC HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WILKES RECOVERY REVOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds FAITHHEALTHINNOVATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES DENTAL CONSORTIUM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WILKES RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN KITCHEN OF WILKES ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE H BARBER MEMORIAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S CROSSROADS VFD INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES YOUTH LIFE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE SPOT CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF WILKES ↗
- Who funds CARENET COUNSELING OF WILKES INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT ENRICHMENT SERVICES OF WILKES ↗
- Who funds TRAPHILL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MILLERS CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BRUSHY MOUNTAIN GROUP HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds RONDA COMMUNITY VOL FIRE DEPT INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626) ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION TEAM ↗
- Who funds ECHO MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds WILKES LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES DEVELOPMENTAL DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
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: The Health Foundation Inc · The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation · United Way of Wilkes County Inc · The Stone Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · The Cannon Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Carson Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Wilkes Medical Center Foundation 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.
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.
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