· Private foundation
William a Stern Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k57 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONE HEALTH | $15,000 |
| CHURCH WORLD SERVICES GREENSBORO | $12,000 |
| CONE HEALTH PHILANTHROPY | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF HIGH POINT | $5,000 |
| GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| GREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION | $5,000 |
| WESTCHESTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF NC | $3,000 |
| NEWCOMERS SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| UNCG | $3,000 |
| PRESERVATION GREENSBORO INC | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| SANCTUARY HOUSE | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
84 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- GUGREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +38%
- CFCAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $47k · revenue +989%
THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC7× · 2017–2023 · $32k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- THTHE HEALING GARDENS AT WESLEY LONGone grant, 2024 · $10k
NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL LAND TRUSTone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -63%- TJTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GREENSBORO NC INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -13%
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.
Together with its diverse communities, the organization collects objects and stories, connects generations, and challenges people to explore our city's past, present and future. the museum sparks wonder through bold exhibitions and…
To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.
Goodwill industries of central north carolina, inc.'s mission is improving lives and enriching communities through the power of work
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
The north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.
Securing equality and justice for lgbtq north carolinians.
To advocate for the health of all North Carolinians by pursuing equitable and collaborative solutions that address climate change and air pollution.
Public/private collaborative to plant trees, raise awareness of the canopy, and educate about tree care.
To strengthen nc's vibrant theatre industry and engage tomorrow's artist, audiences, and advocates.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Folk Festival and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Sauratown Mountains. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 115 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 GREENSBORO URBAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Preservation Greensboro Inc ↗
- Who funds UNCW CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BENNETT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Westchester Country Day School Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds A Safe Place Inc ↗
- Who funds Sanctuary House Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF HIGH POINT NC INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL 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: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Hummel Family Fund Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Reynolds American Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas
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 William a Stern 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.