How much does Charles a Cannon Trust No 1 give?

Charles a Cannon Trust No 1 reported 133 grants totaling $16,812,015 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 73 and 98 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.

What does Charles a Cannon Trust No 1 fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2026, its largest causes are Health (47%), Education (30%), Religion (13%).

Who are Charles a Cannon Trust No 1's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2026: Carolinas Medical Center-Northeast ($19M), The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Auth Dba Atrium Health ($13M), Wingate University ($4.1M).

Does Charles a Cannon Trust No 1 fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Charles a Cannon Trust No 1 accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Charles a Cannon Trust No 1?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cannon Foundation Inc, Foundation for the Carolinas, North Carolina Community Colleges Foundation.

Where is Charles a Cannon Trust No 1 based?

Charles a Cannon Trust No 1 is based in NC.

Charles a Cannon Trust No 1

Charles a Cannon Trust No 1 at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Charles a Cannon Trust No 1

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$17M

Granted FY2026still arriving

133

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$6.4M

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$46MEducation$30MReligion$13MHuman Services$3.1MYouth Development$2.7MScience & Tech$700kHousing & Shelter$610kEnvironment$519kOther$0

02FY2026 · 133 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k21 grants · $116k
$10k–50k47 grants · $1.4M
$50k–250k53 grants · $5.2M
$250k+12 grants · $10M

$48,000

Median grant

States reached

$415M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTHORITY	$6,445,789
CABARRUS COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC	$500,000
BREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATION	$400,000
ROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION	$400,000
WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION INC	$400,000
APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC	$349,000
STANLY COUNTY FAMILY YMCA	$335,000
PUBLIC HEALTH AUTHORITY OF CABARRUS COUNTY	$300,000
WINGATE UNIVERSITY	$290,428
UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC	$250,000
MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC	$250,000
ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION	$250,000
ROWAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC	$249,754
METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC	$200,000
LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INCORPORATED	$200,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–26, $768k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$108M · 168 repeat orgs$7.8M to everyone else

168 repeat relationships: 76 still active in FY2026, 92 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

168

131

Total granted

$108M

$5.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%

+22%

Still filing today

20%

17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

WU
WINGATE UNIVERSITY
8× · 2019–2026 · $4.1M · revenue +17%
BC
BREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATION
8× · 2019–2026 · $3.0M · revenue +40%
LC
LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC
8× · 2019–2026 · $2.6M · revenue +78%

Funded once

LR
LENOIR- RHYNE COLLEGE
one grant, 2019 · $350k
CH
CABARRUS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2025 · $277k · revenue +107%
MA
MCGILL AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH
one grant, 2020 · $125k

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.

04Its field

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.

Haywood Community College Found

Support Haywood Community College

Education

North Carolina Community Colleges Foundation

The north carolina community colleges foundation, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded in 1986 to support the mission of the nc community college system.

Education

The Foundation for Florida Gateway College Inc

The foundation provides academic scholarships and financial support to the college.

Education

Northeast State Community College Foundation

To promote the cause of higher education and the mission of northeast state community college; to expand educational opportunities; and to acquire, manage, and administer foundation funds to achieve those objectives.

Education

The Vance-Granville Community College Foundation Inc

Vance-Granville Community College Foundation, Inc., purpose is to receive contributions and to use such contributions to provide funds to Vance-Granville Community College to be used to acquire or purchase real or personal property, to pay…

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Columbia State Community College Foundation

The columbia state community college foundation encourages friends, alumni, economic partners and others to invest their time and resources toward improvement of education at columbia state community college and making higher education…

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Manchester Community College Foundation Inc

Manchester community college foundation advances the academic, economic, and personal growth of diverse populations by finding sources of funding which will be used to assist the college in achieving its mission and goals.

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Northampton County Area Community College Foundation

The Northampton Community College Foundation, raises, invests and manages private resources for Northampton Community College, it's students, and it's staff.

Education

Jefferson Community College Foundation Inc

The mission of the jefferson community college foundation is to work in partnership with the college, the community and alumni to enhance the educational opportunities provided by the college.

Education

Northeast Community College Foundation

The purpose of the northeast community college foundation is to assist northeast community college in furthering its educational goals and objectives, and to provide financial support to northeast students, enabling them to afford tuition…

Education

North Central State College Foundation

The mission of the North Central State Foundation is to assist the College in providing life long learning opportunities by securing financial and community support.

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Central Virginia Community College Educational Foundationinc

To provide for scholarships, faculty & staff development and instructor equipment

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coastal Carolina Community College Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cabarrus Healthcare Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 330 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

62/64

Grantees still filing

42/64

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$75,592,204Education$29,223,025Health$3,523,054Human Services$2,088,000Youth Development$1,877,500Philanthropy$76,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

The Cannon Foundation IncNC83.5× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · North Carolina Community Colleges Foundation · Mariam & Robert Hayes Charitable Trust · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Golden Leaf Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Patriot Foundation · North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Inc · Wcnc Cannon Charitable Trust · Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Charles a Cannon Trust No 1 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles a Cannon Trust No 1. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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