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Handson Northwest North Carolina

Winstonsalem, NC · EIN 26-0824793. Reported 31 grants totalling $322,500 to 28 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

28organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$322,500granted, 2022-2024
11%of grantees funded again the next year
7%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Handson Northwest North Carolina, the IRS classifies it under philanthropy & grantmaking rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE T02) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 28 distinct organizations, with 7% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 11% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $10,000; the smallest was $7,500 and the largest $22,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
12 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
19 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Honorable Youth IncWinston Salem, NC$22,500112024
Asset Building Coalition of Forsyth CountyWinston Salem, NC$15,000222024
Community Design Studio of North CarolinaWinston Salem, NC$15,000222024
Disability Advocates of Northwest North Carolina IncWinston Salem, NC$15,000222024
Happy Hill Neighborhood Association IncWinston Salem, NC$15,000112023
Island CulturezWinston Salem, NC$15,000112023
One Love Strong FoundationWinston Salem, NC$15,000112023
Smileys SweetsWinston Salem, NC$15,000112024
The Wells Center Inc for Women in TransitionWinston Salem, NC$15,000112023
Tre 4 Center of Fine Arts IncWinston Salem, NC$15,000112023
Angelic Warrior Foundation IncWalkertown, NC$10,000112023
Anuli Pregnancy Care ServicesWinston Salem, NC$10,000112022
Dose Collective CorpWinstonsalem, NC$10,000112023
Eagles of Grace IncWinston Salem, NC$10,000112023
Journee Bees VillageWinston Salem, NC$10,000112022
Leanback Giveback FoundationWinstonsalem, NC$10,000112022
National Birth CoalitionWinston Salem, NC$10,000112022
Polish for GirlsKernersville, NC$10,000112022
Red Hawks American Indian Educational and Culture AwarenessKernersville, NC$10,000112023
Royal Curtain Drama Guild IncWinston Salem, NC$10,000112023
Scattered SeedsCedar Falls, IA$10,000112023
Urban Steam Foundation IncWinston Salem, NC$10,000112022
18 Springs Community Healing Center Foundation IncWinston Salem, NC$7,500112024
Family Love and Involvement ProgramWinstonsalem, NC$7,500112024
Living Is Finally Enjoyable Ws IncWinston Salem, NC$7,500112024
Nc Congress of Latino Organizations NccloDurham, NC$7,500112024
Piedmont Wind SymphonyWinston Salem, NC$7,500112024
Rebeca Segebre Ministries IncWinston Salem, NC$7,500112024

3 of 28 (11%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 3 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 23 of 28 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.

Human Services
5 orgs
Community Improvement
4 orgs
Arts & Culture
4 orgs
Youth Development
3 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Religion
2 orgs
Mental Health
1 org
Housing & Shelter
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20226$60,000$10,000
202314$157,500$10,000
202411$105,000$7,500

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

97% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

North Carolina
$312K
Iowa
$10K

Down to the city

Winston Salem, NC
$248K
Winstonsalem, NC
$28K
Kernersville, NC
$20K
Walkertown, NC
$10K
Cedar Falls, IA
$10K
Durham, NC
$8K

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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.

The Winston-Salem Foundation14 shared recipientsThe Arts Council Inc6 shared recipientsReynolds American Foundation3 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund2 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc2 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
  4. 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 Handson Northwest North Carolina'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.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 11 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 114 West 30TH Street Suite 604, Winstonsalem, NC, 27105.

EIN 26-0824793 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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