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Charles & Irene Nanney Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$660kHuman Services$332kPhilanthropy$104kHealth$70kPublic Benefit$62kCommunity Improvement$37kFood & Nutrition$18kHousing & Shelter$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $126k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL$20,000
MARS HILL UNIVERSITY$18,750
CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY$17,700
THE SALVATION ARMY$17,700
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$16,000
GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY$15,000
UNITED WAY OF GASTON COUNTY$11,000
STOWER FAMILY YMCA$10,000
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY$7,000
HOLY ANGELS INC$5,250
Individual grant recipient$5,000
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION FOUNDATION$2,500
GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC$2,500
WITH FRIENDS INC$2,500
CANCER SERVICES OF GASTON COUNTY$2,500
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY: $7k → 11%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $20k → 8%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $20k → 13%MARS HILL UNIVERSITY: $19k → 15%GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $20k → 17%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $15k → 8%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $18k → 13%MARS HILL UNIVERSITY: $19k → 15%GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $17k → 13%MARS HILL UNIVERSITY: $19k → 15%GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%THE SALVATION ARMY: $24k → 10%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $17k → 13%MARS HILL UNIVERSITY: $19k → 15%GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%THE SALVATION ARMY: $22k → 10%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $15k → 13%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $16k → 15%MARS HILL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%THE SALVATION ARMY: $18k → 10%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $15k → 13%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%MARS HILL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $15k → 13%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%MARS HILL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%MARS HILL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%MARS HILL UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $15k → 17%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%STOWER FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 12%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%DANIEL STOWE BOTANICAL GARDEN: $8k → 12%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%HOLY ANGELS INC: $5k → 12%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $15k → 15%HOLY ANGELS INC: $5k → 12%HOLY ANGELS INC: $5k → 12%GASTON COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 12%GASTON COUNTY YMCA: $60k → 12%GASTON COUNTY YMCA: $20k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 29 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
8

Total granted

$1.4M
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+8%

Still filing today

76%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • Crisis Assistance Ministry
    9× · 2017–2025 · $167k · revenue +27%
  • CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $152k · revenue +6%
  • MH
    MARS HILL UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • GC
    Gaston County Family YMCA
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -12%
  • DS
    DANIEL STOWE BOTANICAL GARDEN
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $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.

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.

1
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
2
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
3
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
4
Gordon College

Gordon college strives to graduate men & women distinguished by (continued on schedule o) (continuation) intellectual maturity and christian character, committed to lives of service and prepared for leadership worldwide.

Education
5
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
6
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
7
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Goldey-Beacom College

Empowering learners to achieve excellence by linking knowledge to practice.

Education
10
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
11
Southern Wesleyan University

Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

Education
12
Wingate University

The mission of wingate university is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

24 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. 24 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $151,500 · EducationCAMPBELL UNIVERSITYMARS HILL UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationMARS HILL UNIVERSITYGARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $140,000 · EducationGARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITYWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $136,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY+6 more: $40,750 · Education+6 moreSALVATION ARMY: $122,690 · OtherSALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient: $80,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE GAZETTE EMPTY STOCKING FUND: $61,925 · OtherTHE GAZETTE EMPTY STOCKING FUNDHOLY ANGELS INC: $47,250 · OtherHOLY ANGELS INCIndividual grant recipient: $27,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $22,500 · OtherHOUSE OF MERCY INC: $16,000 · Other+14 more: $62,250 · Other+14 moreCrisis Assistance Ministry: $167,115 · Human ServicesCrisis Assistan…WITH FRIENDS INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesWITH FRIENDS IN…UNITED WAY OF GASTON COUNTY INC: $104,150 · PhilanthropyGASTON TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC: $36,500 · Community ImprovementCANCER SERVICES OF GASTON CTY INC: $20,000 · HealthSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $6,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $6,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $3,500 · Food & NutritionSAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION: $6,000 · Animals
Education$618,250Other$439,615Human Services$189,615Philanthropy$104,150Community Improvement$36,500Health$20,000Food & Nutrition$15,500Animals$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry: $167,115 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $151,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMARS HILL UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $140,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $136,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GASTON COUNTY INC: $104,150 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetHOLY ANGELS INC: $47,250 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGASTON TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC: $36,500 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetGASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC: $22,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetWITH FRIENDS INC: $22,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetCANCER SERVICES OF GASTON CTY INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetHOUSE OF MERCY INC: $16,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMEREDITH COLLEGE: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGaston County Family YMCA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Summit School Incorporated: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CIRCLE OF COMMITMENT INC: $4,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGASTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGASTON ARTS COUNCIL: $2,250 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetWest Forsyth Christian Preschool: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
  • Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MARS HILL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GASTON COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLY ANGELS INC ↗
  • Who funds GASTON TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds WITH FRIENDS INC ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF GASTON CTY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY INC ↗
  • Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Bucknell University ↗
  • Who funds Gaston County Family YMCA ↗
  • Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
  • Who funds The Summit School Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds WHITAKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CIRCLE OF COMMITMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
  • Who funds GASTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GASTON ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds West Forsyth Christian Preschool ↗

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 Carrie E and Lena…Foundation for the Ca…The David Belk Cannon…Gaston Community Foun…Duke Energy FoundationThe Winston-Salem Fou…The Cannon Foundation…Gaston Memorial Hospi…Enterprise Holdings F…North Carolina Commun…Pearl Dixon Balthis F…The Howe Foundation I…
The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn FoundNC22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 & Irene Nanney Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles & Irene Nanney Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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