Shallow Ford Foundation Inc
Clemmons, NC · EIN 04-3795285. Reported 97 grants totalling $1,432,385 to 54 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 Shallow Ford Foundation Inc, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for diseases & disorders (NTEE G12).
- How spread out its giving is. 54 distinct organizations, with 26% 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. 46% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 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 $13,760; the smallest was $5,100 and the largest $180,250. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Love Out Loud | Winston Salem, NC | $365,804 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Cancer Services Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $112,214 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Yadkin County Public Schools | Yadkinville, NC | $78,215 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Yadkin Valley Economic Development District Inc | Boonville, NC | $51,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hands of Hope Medical Clinic | Yadkinville, NC | $47,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Yadkin Arts Council Inc | Yadkinville, NC | $43,775 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Magnify Ministries | Yadkinville, NC | $43,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Yadkin County Rescue Squad and Emergency Medical Services Inc | Yadkinville, NC | $42,713 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina | Winston Salem, NC | $38,365 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Winston-Salem State University | Winstonsalem, NC | $36,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Lewisville-Clemmons Chamber of Commerce | Clemmons, NC | $29,400 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Crisis Control Ministry Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $27,650 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Childrens Center of Surry Inc | Dobson, NC | $26,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Yadkin County Economic Dev | Yadkinville, NC | $25,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Surry Community College | Dobson, NC | $23,915 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Appalachian State University | Boone, NC | $21,200 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Salpointe Catholic Education Foundation | Tucson, AZ | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Clemmons United Methodist Church | Clemmons, NC | $19,100 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $18,900 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Imprints Cares | Winston Salem, NC | $18,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Yadkin Riverkeeper Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Smart Start of Yadkin County Inc | Yadkinville, NC | $17,900 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Northwestern Regional Library | Elkin, NC | $17,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| City Lights Ministry | Winston Salem, NC | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Forbush Volunteer Fire Dept Inc | Yadkinville, NC | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Solus Christus Inc | East Bend, NC | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hospice & Palliative Carecenter | Winston Salem, NC | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Boonville Business and Downtown Development Association Inc | Boonville, NC | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Threshold Retreat Inc | East Bend, NC | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Town of East Bend | East Bend, NC | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Humane Society of Davie County | Mocksville, NC | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Animal Adoption and Rescue Foundation of Winston-Salem Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bloomsberg Commonwealth University | Bloomsburg, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Law Center of Central North Carolina | Winston Salem, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fostering Faith Foundation | Clemmons, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pleasant Grove Baptist Church | Ronda, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Winston-Salem Rescue Mission Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Salem Band | Winston Salem, NC | $8,900 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Forsyth Technical Comm College | Winston Salem, NC | $8,843 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Nc-Charlotte | Charlotte, NC | $8,600 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Crossnore Communities for Children | Newland, NC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Davidson-Davie Community College | Lexington, NC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| School Health Alliance for Forsyth County | Winston Salem, NC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Hope Pregnancy Care | Yadkinville, NC | $7,016 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| First Assembly of God | Winston Salem, NC | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Salvation Army National Corp | Alexandria, VA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Services Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Diaper Bank of North Carolina | Hillsborough, NC | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Winston-Salem Industries for the Blind Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| North Carolina a & T State Univ | Greensboro, NC | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Clemmons Food Pantry Inc | Clemmons, NC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hospice of Surry County Inc | Dobson, NC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Horizons Adult Day Services Inc | Yadkinville, NC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Winston-Salem Street School | Winston Salem, NC | $5,425 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
23 of 54 (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 kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 of 54 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 | 23 | $467,619 | $12,000 |
| 2021 | 26 | $318,127 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 24 | $325,039 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 24 | $321,600 | $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
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.
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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 $10,000 -- 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 Shallow Ford Foundation Inc'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 24 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 567, Clemmons, NC, 27012.
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