· Private foundation
Associated Foundation Incorporated
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Belmont Abbey College | $8,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $6,500 |
| Charlotte Symphony | $2,500 |
| Wildacres Retreat | $2,500 |
| Spoleto | $2,500 |
| South Point High School | $1,500 |
| Charlotte Master Chorale | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Gaston Arts Council | $500 |
| Holy Angels | $500 |
| Gaston School of the Arts | $500 |
| Mountain Island Charter School | $500 |
| Catherine House | $500 |
| Gaston Hospice | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WRWILDACRES RETREAT7× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +93%
- BABELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC2× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +35%
- SFSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC5× · 2018–2023 · $12k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $19k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GASTON CTYone grant, 2017 · $18k
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
The charlotte regional realtor (r) association (crra) is a trade association serving members in mecklenburg, iredell and haywood counties. at december 31, 2024, crra had 14,020 members.
We enrich the lives of those we serve by providing a nurturing environment that fosters joy, purpose, and well-being.
Greensboro opera is a community-based company dedicated to fostering the growth of opera and to presenting professional productions of the highest artistic caliber for the enjoyment, education, and enrichment of the triad region of north…
To enrich and connect individuals in the greater raleigh community through intimate and exceptional chamber music experiences. we are committed to presenting world class artists performing music of the highest caliber, providing…
(1) to bring together singers and audiences who share a common interest in high-quality performance of time-honored choral masterworks and an ever-broadening range of excellent repertoire from many traditions; (2) to establish and maintain…
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.
Operation of a public charter school.
To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDACRES RETREAT ↗
- Who funds BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Master Chorale ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Repertory Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION OF THE NCCAT INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds GASTON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF GASTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BELMONT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN ISLAND CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GASTON ARTS COUNCIL ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gaston Community Foundation · The Howe Foundation Inc · The Stowe Foundation Inc · The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The David Belk Cannon Foundation · United Way of Gaston County Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Associated Foundation Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Associated Foundation Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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