North Carolina · Private foundation
Charles & Irene Nanney Foundation
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.
- $164k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Charles & Irene Nanney Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $164k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $156k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $160k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $173k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $138k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $143k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $139k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $200k | 10% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crisis Assistance Ministry | $167,115 | 9 | 0% |
| Campbell University | $151,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Mars Hill University | $150,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Gardner-Webb University | $140,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wake Forest University | $136,000 | 9 | 0% |
| United Way of Gaston County Inc | $104,150 | 9 | 1% |
| Holy Angels Inc | $47,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Gaston Together Communities of Excellence Inc | $36,500 | 5 | 4% |
| Gaston Literacy Council Inc | $22,500 | 9 | 1% |
| With Friends Inc | $22,500 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($340k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles & Irene Nanney Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found · Foundation for the Carolinas · The David Belk Cannon Foundation · Gaston Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Pearl Dixon Balthis Fdn Tua · The Howe Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Charles & Irene Nanney Foundation
- How much does Charles & Irene Nanney Foundation give?
- Charles & Irene Nanney Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $164,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Charles & Irene Nanney Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Human Services (23%), Philanthropy (7%).
- Who are Charles & Irene Nanney Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Crisis Assistance Ministry ($167k), Campbell University ($152k), Mars Hill University ($150k).
- Does Charles & Irene Nanney Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Charles & Irene Nanney Foundation 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 & Irene Nanney Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found, Foundation for the Carolinas, The David Belk Cannon Foundation.
- Where is Charles & Irene Nanney Foundation based?
- Charles & Irene Nanney Foundation is based in NC.
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