Smart Start of Forsyth County
Winston Salem, NC · EIN 56-1899564. Reported 156 grants totalling $20.7M to 62 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, 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 Smart Start of Forsyth County, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B210) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 62 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. 79% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 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 $49,430. Half of what it reported fell between $19,857 and $143,418; the smallest was $5,040 and the largest $1,844,700. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winstonsalem Forsyth County Schools | Winston Salem, NC | $5,440,764 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Child Care Network Reynolds Road | Kernersville, NC | $1,527,344 | 8 | 3 | 2023 |
| Family Services Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $1,352,613 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bethlehem Center | Winston Salem, NC | $1,192,125 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| North Point Academy | Winston Salem, NC | $1,163,280 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Work-Family Resource Center Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $1,087,186 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Imprints Cares | Winston Salem, NC | $1,069,499 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Church Child Care Center | Walkerton, NC | $968,531 | 6 | 3 | 2023 |
| La Petite Academy Inc | Chicago, IL | $566,609 | 7 | 3 | 2023 |
| Oak Summit Learning Academy LLC | Winston Salem, NC | $527,803 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Tlc the Learning Academy | Winston Salem, NC | $497,649 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Quality Education Institute Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $447,987 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Centers for Exceptional Children Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $435,352 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| June Miller Maxx Kinderccollege | Winston Salem, NC | $412,324 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| First Baptist Child Development Center | Kernersville, NC | $391,009 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of Nc | Winston Salem, NC | $316,700 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Victorias Academy Dba Carver Educational & Development Ctr | Winston Salem, NC | $313,549 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Childtime Childcare Inc | Chicago, IL | $250,139 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Childrens Courtyard Inc | Kernersville, NC | $225,892 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Forsyth Futures | Winston Salem, NC | $162,532 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| First Step Preschool | Winston Salem, NC | $162,305 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| A Better World Learning Center | Winston Salem, NC | $149,871 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Todays Child Learning Center | Winston Salem, NC | $149,391 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| A Childs World Hartman Plaza | Winston Salem, NC | $135,147 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Sunshine House Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $133,535 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Acwlc II Inc | Clemmons, NC | $126,956 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Kidz Zone Learning Center LLC | Winston Salem, NC | $125,056 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Little Red Schoolhouse | Winston Salem, NC | $121,457 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mt Zion Baptist Church of Winston- Salem Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $101,849 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| A Childs World Downtown | Winston Salem, NC | $100,743 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Discovering Our World Child Development Center LLC | Winston Salem, NC | $95,954 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lollipop Stop Child Development Center LLC | Winston Salem, NC | $84,201 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ephesus Learning Center | Winston Salem, NC | $78,297 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Country Club Learning Development Center LLC | Winston Salem, NC | $71,288 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Forsyth Technical Community College | Winston Salem, NC | $69,261 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Chidrens Courtyard | Kernersville, NC | $67,704 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Learning Place Cdc Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $65,384 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Janis Gooding | Winston Salem, NC | $54,221 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Phoinece Green Dba Little Gifts Learning | Winston Salem, NC | $51,470 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Enrich Kids Academy LLC | Winston Salem, NC | $48,812 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tiny Stars Playschool | Greensboro, NC | $36,467 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rozi Inc Dba Clemmons Learning Center | Winston Salem, NC | $35,192 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Potters House for Children | Winston Salem, NC | $34,362 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Constance Cannon Building Blocks | Winston Salem, NC | $26,164 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nicole Jacobs Dba Kiddie Love | Winston Salem, NC | $24,306 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Step By Step Day Care Center | Winston Salem, NC | $23,148 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hispanic League | Winston Salem, NC | $19,857 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Little Geniuses Learning Center | Winston Salem, NC | $19,132 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| James a Coleman Learning Day Care | Winston Salem, NC | $18,959 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sheila Bea Cuddling Cuties | Winston Salem, NC | $18,479 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Epiphany | Winston Salem, NC | $17,430 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Doletta Learning Center | Winston Salem, NC | $16,674 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Palace Learning Center | Winston Salem, NC | $15,371 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| A Circle of Life Preschool | Winston Salem, NC | $13,545 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Phoinece Green Little Gifts Learning | Winston Salem, NC | $11,642 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gloria Cole | Winston Salem, NC | $10,546 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sherman Catherine Dba Unique Kids | Winston Salem, NC | $7,426 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gullick Cassandra Dba | Winston Salem, NC | $7,406 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dennette Bailey Bailey's Preschool | Winston Salem, NC | $7,100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Smiling Faces Childcare | Winston Salem, NC | $6,640 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Valerie Bowman Dba Cuddle Bugs | Walkertown, NC | $6,170 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Crystal Pearson Dba Great Thinkers | Winston Salem, NC | $5,269 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
45 of 62 (73%) 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.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 6 of 62 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 | 52 | $7,010,249 | $51,645 |
| 2022 | 52 | $6,373,395 | $40,338 |
| 2023 | 52 | $7,339,430 | $59,707 |
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
96% 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 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 $49,430 -- 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 Smart Start of Forsyth County's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). 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 30 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: 7820 North Point Blvd Suite 200, Winston Salem, NC, 27106.
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