High Point Community Foundation
High Point, NC · EIN 56-1695787. Reported 81 grants totalling $1,869,378 to 46 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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 High Point Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 46 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.
- How much its list changes. 52% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,775. Half of what it reported fell between $17,700 and $26,400; the smallest was $3,570 and the largest $41,026. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D-Up Inc | High Point, NC | $129,285 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Salvation Army | Brookhaven, GA | $118,931 | 5 | 3 | 2022 |
| Open Door Ministries of High Point Inc | High Point, NC | $99,344 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Guilford Education Alliance Inc | Greensboro, NC | $97,771 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| High Point Leap | High Point, NC | $79,144 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Growing High Point | High Point, NC | $74,504 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Macedonia Family Resource Center Inc | High Point, NC | $73,245 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| West End Ministries | High Point, NC | $70,708 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Go Far | Colfax, NC | $55,787 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Community Housing Solutions of Guilford Inc | Greensboro, NC | $55,315 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| High Point Community Against Violence Inc | High Point, NC | $54,077 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Greater Triad Inc | High Point, NC | $53,430 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of High Point | High Point, NC | $51,944 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Young Womens Christian Association of High Point Nc Inc | High Point, NC | $51,944 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| The Community Clinic of High Point Inc | High Point, NC | $50,284 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Backpack Beginnings | Greensboro, NC | $47,744 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Greater High Point Food Alliance | High Point, NC | $45,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| A Simple Gesture Greensboro Inc | Greensboro, NC | $43,644 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Guilford County Schools Library Media Services | Greensboro, NC | $38,100 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Helping Hands High Point | High Point, NC | $37,431 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| High Point Chamber Foundation Inc | High Point, NC | $34,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Beyond Sports Nc | Greensboro, NC | $33,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Community Collaboration for Children Inc | High Point, NC | $32,570 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hopefulls Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $30,715 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Brothers Organized to Serve Others Incorporated | High Point, NC | $28,976 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Puzzle Play Inc | High Point, NC | $28,255 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation | Greensboro, NC | $28,215 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Guilford Technical Community College Foundation Inc | Jamestown, NC | $26,355 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Arc of High Point Inc | High Point, NC | $26,144 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Partners Ending Homelessness | High Point, NC | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Motivational Foundation | Greensboro, NC | $23,665 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mt Zion Baptist Church | High Point, NC | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| High Point Police Foundation | High Point, NC | $21,430 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Operation Xcel Promoting Excellent Communities Education & Leadership | Stokesdale, NC | $21,360 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| West End Ministries | High Point, NC | $19,570 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| World Relief Corporation O National | Baltimore, MD | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Peak Adventure Ministries Inc | Greensboro, NC | $17,700 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Growing the Distance Inc | Greensboro, NC | $16,930 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| County of Guilford - Family Justice Center Dept | High Point, NC | $16,305 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sister Circle International | High Point, NC | $15,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ready for School Ready for Life | Greensboro, NC | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Barnabas Network | Greensboro, NC | $12,930 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Carolina Core Soccer | High Point, NC | $11,520 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| High Point Discovered Inc | High Point, NC | $6,536 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Caring Services Inc | High Point, NC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Service Corps of Retired Executives Association | Washington, DC | $3,570 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
20 of 46 (43%) 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.
- D-Up Inc
SUPPORT WELLNESS PROGRAM FOR YOUTH - D-Up
Safeguard and enhance youth's & women's mental health - Beyond Sports Nc
EXPAND SPORTS CLINICS IN SCHOOLS - C3 Community Collaboration for Children
Capacity building for more collaboration - Community Housing Solutions of Guilford
Provide repairs to low income housing - Guilford Education Alliance
Career exploration & workforce development program
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 36 of 46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 17 | $414,100 | $25,900 |
| 2021 | 22 | $479,400 | $24,585 |
| 2022 | 20 | $475,878 | $25,387 |
| 2023 | 22 | $500,000 | $22,975 |
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
92% 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.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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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 $25,775 -- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from High Point Community Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 22 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: Po Box 5166, High Point, NC, 27262.
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