A Simple Gesture - Greensboro Inc
Greensboro, NC · EIN 47-2995932. Reported 97 grants totalling $7,190,686 to 43 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For A Simple Gesture - Greensboro Inc, the IRS classifies it under food & nutrition rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE K30) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 43 distinct organizations, with 50% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 87% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $21,646. Half of what it reported fell between $9,060 and $38,250; the smallest was $5,017 and the largest $2,432,997. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
97 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $7,190,686 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guilford County Schools | Greensboro, NC | $3,620,991 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Backpack Beginnings | Greensboro, NC | $1,258,075 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital | Greensboro, NC | $231,817 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| West End Ministries | High Point, NC | $230,965 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Greensboro Jewish Federation | Greensboro, NC | $215,740 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Church Under the Bridge | Greensboro, NC | $131,072 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Open Door Ministries of High Point Inc | High Point, NC | $123,687 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| First Christian Church of High Point | High Point, NC | $106,555 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ramah Restoration Outreach | Reidsville, NC | $96,349 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New Jerusalem Cathedral | Greensboro, NC | $82,650 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $70,946 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Christ United Methodist Church of High Point Inc | High Point, NC | $67,956 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Hunger and Health Coalition Inc | Boone, NC | $67,200 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baptist State Convention of North Carolina Inc | Cary, NC | $63,494 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| One Step Further Incorporated | Greensboro, NC | $59,997 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Covenant Church United Methodist | High Point, NC | $58,781 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Out of the Garden Project | Greensboro, NC | $57,691 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northside Baptist Church | Greensboro, NC | $57,583 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ward Street Community Resources Inc | High Point, NC | $56,081 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Church of the Holy Spirit | Greensboro, NC | $49,321 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sanctuary House | Greensboro, NC | $45,793 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mt Pleasant UMC Kimesvillepastor Keith Edwards | Liberty, NC | $44,660 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Man Up Mission | Greensboro, NC | $38,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wells Memorial Church of God in Christ Inc | Greensboro, NC | $35,615 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Delancey Street North Carolina | Greensboro, NC | $35,567 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Community Outreach of Archdale- Trinity Inc | Archdale, NC | $34,282 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Family Room Foster Care Resource Center | Greensboro, NC | $29,929 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Islamic Center of Greensboro | Greensboro, NC | $25,657 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Helping Hands High Point | High Point, NC | $25,594 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater First United Baptist | High Point, NC | $25,038 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Shiloh Holiness Church of God in Christ Inc | Greensboro, NC | $22,484 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Grace Point Upc | Archdale, NC | $17,956 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Manna Church High Point | High Point, NC | $16,565 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vandalia Presbyterian Church | Greensboro, NC | $14,180 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Community Clinic of High Point Inc | High Point, NC | $13,245 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Burns Hill Neighborhood Association | High Point, NC | $11,820 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| I Am Foundation | Greensboro, NC | $9,105 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Burns Hill Neighborhood Association | High Point, NC | $8,267 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beloved Community | High Point, NC | $7,064 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| We Are One Christian Fellowship Inc | Greensboro, NC | $6,532 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Oak Ridge Methodist Church | Oak Ridge, NC | $5,910 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hot Dish and Hope | Greensboro, NC | $5,205 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Drawers of Hope Resource Center | High Point, NC | $5,017 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
29 of 43 (67%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Guilford County Schools
TO SUPPORT THE MISSION OF PROVIDING FOOD TO THOSE IN NEED.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 43 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 13 | $560,016 | $11,820 |
| 2022 | 19 | $733,489 | $13,546 |
| 2023 | 31 | $2,201,084 | $19,965 |
| 2024 | 34 | $3,696,097 | $26,241 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $21,646 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from A Simple Gesture - Greensboro Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 3503 Redington Drive, Greensboro, NC, 27410.
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