High Point University
High Point, NC · EIN 56-0529999. Reported 70 grants totalling $11.3M to 35 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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 High Point University, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B03) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 35 distinct organizations, with 44% 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. 54% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $124,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $3,000,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
17 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $998,062 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Point Community Foundation | High Point, NC | $5,000,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans Inc | Alexandria, VA | $1,550,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| YMCA of Greater High Point Foundation Inc | High Point, NC | $1,005,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Shift Education | Greensboro, NC | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| United Way of Greater High Point Inc | High Point, NC | $582,691 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Nido & Mariana Qubein Childrens Museum | High Point, NC | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Piedmont Triad Partnership | Greensboro, NC | $425,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| High Point Regional Health Foundation | High Point, NC | $265,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| City of High Point Police Department | High Point, NC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mt Zion Baptist Church | High Point, NC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Samaritans Purse | Boone, NC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| YWCA Greensboro | Greensboro, NC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Business High Point Inc | High Point, NC | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| North Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities | Raleigh, NC | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Breakthrough T1D | New York, NY | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ministers' Conference of High Point | High Point, NC | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Myers Park United Methodist Church | Charlotte, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Speakers Association | Scottsdale, AZ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Speakers Association | Tempe, AZ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Open Door Ministries of High Point Inc | High Point, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Young Womens Christian Association of High Point Nc Inc | High Point, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Communities in Schools of High Point Inc | High Point, NC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Institute of World Politics | Washington, DC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| North Carolina for Community and Justice Inc | Greensboro, NC | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Piedmont Triad Charitable Foundation | Greensboro, NC | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Independence Fund Inc | Charlotte, NC | $10,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bennett College | Greensboro, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of John Coltrane | High Point, NC | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| High Point Arts Council Inc | High Point, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| North Carolina Museum of History Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Orrick Quick Ministries | High Point, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Duke Energy Foundation | Charlotte, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Family Service of the Piedmont Inc | Jamestown, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
16 of 35 (46%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 24 of 35 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 | 13 | $4,402,547 | $25,000 |
| 2021 | 14 | $2,129,000 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 12 | $2,375,300 | $77,500 |
| 2023 | 14 | $1,373,582 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 17 | $998,062 | $10,000 |
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
85% 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
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $20,000 -- 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 University's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: One University Parkway, High Point, NC, 27268.
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