· Private foundation
Wren Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k14 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| CHRIST SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| INDEPENDENT COLLEGE FUND OF NC | $9,500 |
| CHATHAM COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL CAROLINA | $5,000 |
| CHATHAM COUNTY DSS FOSTER CHILDREN'S FUND | $3,000 |
| JORDAN MATTHEWS ARTS FOUNDATION | $2,750 |
| SALEM ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NC | $2,400 |
| CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| WREN MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL | $300 |
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 (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +45% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $290k · revenue +145%
MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $170k · revenue +8%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL CAROLINA6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF SILER CITYone grant, 2022 · $30k
- ULUNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Ctrone grant, 2021 · $15k
- JMJordan Matthews High Schoolone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Charlotte christian school is a christ-centered, college preparatory school, equipping and developing students to effectively integrate biblical truth and learning nto their daily lives and to impact the culture for christ.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
The christ college of nursing and health sciences, guided by its core values and enriched by a foundation in the arts and sciences, prepares individuals both for delivery of healthcare that promotes the well-being of a dynamic society and…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
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.
The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salem Academy and College and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 54 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 UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARY BALDWIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRIST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM CARES COMMUNITY PHARMACY ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SALEM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CHATHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HEMIPLEGIA INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SILER CITY ROTARY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Galloway Ridge Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of Chatham County · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Wren Foundation Inc 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.