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Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$22M
Granted FY2024still arriving
298
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$26MEnvironment$14MCommunity Improvement$11MHuman Services$9.8MCivil Rights$9.7MPublic Benefit$9.3MCrime & Legal$6.9MHealth$3.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 298 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k81 grants · $2.2M
  • $50k–250k179 grants · $15M
  • $250k+10 grants · $4.6M
$50,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$1,200,000
LEGAL AID OF NC$505,000
UNIVERSITY OF NC CHAPEL HILL$423,927
SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE$420,000
MDC INC$400,000
PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC$379,800
DEMOCRACY NC$350,000
NEO PHILANTHROPY$325,000
BLUEPRINT NC$300,000
NC CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS$293,549
CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION$230,000
ARISE COLLECTIVE$225,000
COHARIE INTRA-TRIBAL COUNCIL$204,150
NC COUNTS COALITION$200,307
FORWARD JUSTICE$200,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $5.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $70k → 9%RURAL EMPOWERMENT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY HELP: $50k → 20%MEN AND WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $50k → 21%NC FIELD: $50k → 21%HISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $70k → 9%RURAL EMPOWERMENT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY HELP: $50k → 20%MEN AND WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $45k → 21%NC FIELD: $50k → 21%HISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $70k → 9%LATINO ADVOCACY COALITION OF HENDERSON COUNTY: $40k → 12%RURAL EMPOWERMENT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY HELP: $50k → 20%MEN AND WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $45k → 21%NC FIELD: $50k → 21%LATINO ADVOCACY COALITION OF HENDERSON COUNTY: $40k → 12%RURAL EMPOWERMENT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY HELP: $50k → 20%NC FIELD: $45k → 21%HISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $50k → 9%SPIRITHOUSE SOUTH: $70k → 11%RURAL EMPOWERMENT ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY HELP: $45k → 20%NC FIELD: $45k → 21%HISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $50k → 9%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION: $50k → 10%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION: $60k → 10%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION: $60k → 10%COMPAEROS INMIGRANTES DE LAS MONTAAS EN ACCION: $170k → 12%COLABORATIVA LA MILPA: $85k → 12%COLABORATIVA LA MILPA: $70k → 12%COLABORATIVA LA MILPA: $40k → 12%TRANZMISSION: $50k → 12%FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $70k → 10%FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $70k → 10%FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $70k → 10%FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $50k → 10%FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $50k → 10%COALICION LATINOAMERICANA: $50k → 10%EQUITY BEFORE BIRTH: $50k → 11%NC JUSTICE CENTER: $800k → 8%NC JUSTICE CENTER: $800k → 8%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NC: $50k → 8%NC JUSTICE CENTER: $50k → 8%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NC: $50k → 8%PRO-CHOICE NC FOUNDATION: $70k → 11%NARAL PRO-CHOICE NC FOUNDATION: $70k → 11%NARAL PRO-CHOICE NC FOUNDATION: $70k → 11%NARAL PRO-CHOICE NC FOUNDATION: $60k → 11%NARAL PRO-CHOICE NC FOUNDATION: $60k → 11%EL PUEBLO INC: $100k → 8%EL PUEBLO INC: $100k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$97M · 328 repeat orgs$7.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

328 repeat relationships: 204 still active in FY2024, 124 since wound down; 89 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

328
141

Total granted

$97M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+23%

Still filing today

77%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $13M · revenue +45%
  • NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER
    4× · 2020–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +36%
  • THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • SI
    SIT IN MOVEMENT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -100%
  • NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -13%
  • NC
    NC COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
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
North Carolina Empowerment Organization
Civil Rights
2
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
3
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

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4
Nc Local Inc

Expands local news across North Carolina

Civil Rights
5
North Carolina Equal Access to Justice Foundation Inc

In collaboration with the legal community, NCEAJF empowers North Carolinians to navigate the civil justice system.

Crime & Legal
6
North Carolinians for Redistricting Reform

North Carolinians for Redistricting Reform (NC4RR) is a bipartisan nonprofit working to improve North Carolina's representative democracy through redistricting reform. NC4RR's objective is to help pass a state constitutional amendment in…

—
7
North Carolina a Philip Randolph Educational Fund

To bring about civic betterment and social improvements.

Human Services
8
North Carolina League of Conservation Voters Foundation

NCLCVF engages people to protect our environment and promote the well-being of our communities. We work to turn environmental values into NC priorities by engaging people in the democratic process, organizing in communities first and worst…

Environment
9
Lead Nc

LEAD NC is a non-partisan organization that seeks, encourages and cultivates a new generation of community and civic leaders for North Carolina through information dissemination, training and leadership development.

—
10
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
11
North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ

The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…

Education
12
North Carolina Community Action Association

To encourage, promote, and stimulate the community development of human resources, principally to eliminate poverty through the operation of community action programs.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Coalition to End Hom; the most unlike its peers is La Familia Community Health in. 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

427 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. 427 of the 564 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.

39
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
123
Early backer (in before they grew)
417/427
Grantees still filing
267/427
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $12,871,720 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $2,036,500 · EducationBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINAPUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC: $784,600 · Education+27 more: $7,208,957 · Education+27 moreLEGAL AID OF NC: $1,847,500 · OtherLEGAL AID OF NCUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL: $1,540,145 · OtherMDC INC: $1,170,500 · OtherSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $1,133,200 · Other+79 more: $26,689,552 · Other+79 moreTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,341,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVA…NORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK: $762,600 · EnvironmentNORTH CAROLI…NORTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE NETWORK: $659,200 · EnvironmentNORTH CAROLI…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $581,250 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTA…SOUND RIVERS INC: $568,133 · EnvironmentSOUND RIVERS…NORTH CAROLINA SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION: $445,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA: $426,000 · EnvironmentSol Nation Inc: $378,200 · EnvironmentMountainTrue: $353,533 · Environment+25 more: $4,835,950 · Environment+25 moreNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $4,715,500 · Human ServicesNORTH CARO…EL PUEBLO INC: $560,000 · Human ServicesEL PUEBLO …Community Success Initiative Inc: $445,700 · Human ServicesColaborativa La Milpa: $413,200 · Human ServicesHISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $383,800 · Human ServicesPRO-CHOICE NC FOUNDATION: $368,200 · Human ServicesFreedom Center for Social Justice: $318,200 · Human ServicesNC Field Inc: $290,000 · Human Services+5 more: $1,063,733 · Human Services+5 moreDemocracy North Carolina: $3,275,000 · Civil RightsSIT IN MOVEMENT INC: $500,000 · Civil RightsNC CONGRESS OF LATINO ORGANIZATIONS (NCCLO): $373,200 · Civil RightsYOU CAN VOTE: $290,500 · Civil RightsCampaign For Southern Equality: $280,000 · Civil RightsNORTH CAROLINA CENTER ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE: $250,000 · Civil RightsSOMOS SIEMBRA: $240,000 · Civil RightsBYP100 Education Fund: $220,000 · Civil Rights+5 more: $735,600 · Civil RightsSOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $1,245,000 · Crime & LegalFORWARD JUSTICE: $965,500 · Crime & LegalCharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc: $501,250 · Crime & LegalCenter for Responsible Lending: $500,000 · Crime & LegalPIEDMONT MEDIATION CENTER INC: $415,000 · Crime & LegalEmancipate NC Inc: $383,200 · Crime & LegalPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $351,533 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR DEATH PENALTY LITIGATION: $320,000 · Crime & LegalCAROLINA MIGRANT NETWORK INC: $314,200 · Crime & LegalARISE COLLECTIVE INC: $280,000 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $315,000 · Crime & LegalEL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $1,080,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC: $977,298 · Community ImprovementCOHARIE INTRA-TRIBAL COUNCIL INC: $568,400 · Community ImprovementRURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $500,000 · Community ImprovementWAKEUP WAKE COUNTY INC: $308,200 · Community ImprovementSustain Charlotte Inc: $258,200 · Community ImprovementJust Economics: $258,200 · Community ImprovementWest End Revitalization Association: $236,400 · Community ImprovementROANOKE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $218,200 · Community ImprovementWORKING LANDSCAPES: $218,200 · Community Improvement+5 more: $758,533 · Community Improvement
Education$22,901,777Other$32,380,897Environment$10,350,866Human Services$8,558,333Civil Rights$6,164,300Crime & Legal$5,590,683Community Improvement$5,381,631

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $12,871,720 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $4,715,500 over 4y, 23% of budgetDemocracy North Carolina: $3,275,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $2,036,500 over 5y, 10% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,341,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $1,245,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $1,133,200 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetEL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $1,080,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC: $977,298 over 5y, 21% of budgetFORWARD JUSTICE: $965,500 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $945,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINORITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $850,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetPUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC: $784,600 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK: $762,600 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $700,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE INNOVATION PROJECT: $693,200 over 5y, 25% of budgetNC COUNTS COALITION: $670,307 over 4y, 19% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE NETWORK: $659,200 over 5y, 19% of budgetNeighborhood Funders Group: $650,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC: $643,200 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $601,100 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $581,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $575,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOHARIE INTRA-TRIBAL COUNCIL INC: $568,400 over 5y, 14% of budgetSOUND RIVERS INC: $568,133 over 5y, 13% of budgetEL PUEBLO INC: $560,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $545,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA: $515,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetGASTON FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $508,200 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Beloved Community Center of Greensboro Inc: $508,200 over 5y, 23% of budgetNorth Carolina Early Education Coalition: $503,200 over 5y, 41% of budgetCharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc: $501,250 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetEDUCATIONNC: $500,150 over 5y, 11% of budgetRURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $500,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSIT IN MOVEMENT INC: $500,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetCenter for Responsible Lending: $500,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS INC: $490,500 over 5y, 25% of budgetWest Side CLT: $483,200 over 4y, 23% of budgetEAGLE MARKET STREETS DEVELOPMENT CO: $483,200 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetNorth Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Projec: $458,200 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA HOUSING COALITION INC: $455,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetInstitute for Southern Studies Inc: $450,100 over 3y, 72% of budgetNC CHILD: $450,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetCommunity Success Initiative Inc: $445,700 over 5y, 35% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SUSTAINABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION: $445,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetCONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA: $426,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetPIEDMONT MEDIATION CENTER INC: $415,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetColaborativa La Milpa: $413,200 over 5y, 15% 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 WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Democracy North Carolina ↗
  • Who funds BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds EL CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds FORWARD JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINORITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CONSERVATION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE INNOVATION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds NC COUNTS COALITION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood Funders Group ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds COHARIE INTRA-TRIBAL COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUND RIVERS INC ↗
  • Who funds EL PUEBLO INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds GASTON FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds The Beloved Community Center of Greensboro Inc ↗
  • Who funds North Carolina Early Education Coalition ↗
  • Who funds Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATIONNC ↗

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.

Blueprint North Carol…Triangle Community Fo…North Carolina Commun…Dogwood Health TrustThe Winston-Salem Fou…Blue Cross and Blue S…The Cannon Foundation…United Way of the Gre…Community Foundation …NEO Philanthropy IncFoundation for the Ca…Nc Counts Coalition
Blueprint North CarolinaNC126.6× affinity70 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blueprint North Carolina · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Nc Counts Coalition

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 Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    57report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 564 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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