· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $126k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| WITH FRIENDS INC | $2,500 |
| GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC | $2,500 |
| CANCER SERVICES OF GASTON COUNTY | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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 Ministry9× · 2017–2025 · $167k · revenue +27%
CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $152k · revenue +6%- MHMARS HILL UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- GCGaston County Family YMCAone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -12%
- DSDANIEL STOWE BOTANICAL GARDENone grant, 2020 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Empowering learners to achieve excellence by linking knowledge to practice.
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…
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF MERCY INC ↗
- 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 ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Charles & Irene Nanney Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.