· Private foundation
Fulton Family Trust
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, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNCG EXCELLENCE FDN-ETHEL C FULTON | $25,000 |
| ASU FOUNDATION-FULTON FAMILY SCHOLA | $25,000 |
| THE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC | $20,000 |
| WATAUGA HUMANE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| RED FEATHER EQUINE SANCTUARY | $15,000 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| WINSTON-SALEM STREET SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WATAUGA HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| TWO RIVERS COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HAND ME DOWN DOBES | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those 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 +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 6 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTwo Rivers Community School2× · 2024–2025 · $56k · revenue +0%
- WHWATAUGA HUMANE SOCIETY3× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +13%
- WSWINSTON-SALEM STREET SCHOOL2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- BWBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Incone grant, 2024 · $38k · revenue 0%
- SRSTAR RANCH HORSE RESCUEone grant, 2024 · $30k
- UEUNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION - ETHEL C FULTON SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Providing a safe and humane animal shelter for unwanted animals in Hawkins County.
To improve the qulity of life for companion animals, to place homeless cats & dogs in suitable homes, & to provide programs to reduce the overpopulation and euthanasia of companion animals.
To spay and neuter animals and provide shelter
The mission of the hopkins county humane society is to ensure the humane and compassionate treatment of all animals.
Heartland humane society is a no-kill shelter for dogs and cats. the mission is to provide temporary shelter and care to homeless/lost animals, to educate the public on proper care of animals, and to promote neuter and spay programs.
The mission of wvhs is to serve the community through education, protection and pet adoptions. we continue our mission by taking care of displaced pets, rescuing injured and lost animals, providing spay/neuter programs, investigating…
to find forever homes for unwanted animals
The care and adoption of stray, domestic animals
Care for homeless animals
Education, promotion, and implementation of effective spay and neuter services for animals, rescue of abused animals, foster services for animals available for adoption, and administration of adoption of animals to qualified applicants.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 19 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 Two Rivers Community School ↗
- Who funds WATAUGA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds WINSTON-SALEM STREET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds RED FEATHER FARM ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds HAND ME DOWN DOBES ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fulton Family Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fulton Family Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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