· Private foundation
Gail Handel Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED FOOD BANK OF PLANT CITY | $45,000 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $40,000 |
| HOMEWARD BOUND OF NC | $20,000 |
| BOUNTY & SOUL | $20,000 |
| PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF ASHEVILLE | $20,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG FAMILIES | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FOOD4KIDS BACKPACK PROGRAM OF NORTH FL | $10,000 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| SUNNY CARES FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NC | $5,000 |
| FARM CAFE | $5,000 |
| ASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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 +72% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- FCFARM CAFE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +114%
- HHHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +142%
- BABELOVED ASHEVILLE2× · 2023–2025 · $46k · revenue +799%
Funded once
- UFUNITED FOOD BANKone grant, 2023 · $30k
- FCFOOD CONNECTION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +103%
- MAMountain Alliance Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +28%
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.
To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.
The mission of meals on wheels plus of manatee, inc. is to assist individuals to live independently by providing nutrition and caring supportive services.
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
To feed people by soliciting and distributing food and other products through partner agencies and educating the community about the nature of and solutions to problems of hunger.
Harvest hope is on a mission to eliminate hunger and food insecurity in south carolina. we rescue nutritious food from stores throughout the state and distribute it to food pantries, shelters, and soup kitchens. we operate programs that…
Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…
To provide food assistance through a network of partners, while educating and engaging our communities in the elimination of hunger and its causes.
Our mission is to increase access to fresh, local food for all while supporting the viability of marginalized farmers to create a more equitable food system.
To prevent and reduce hunger and homelessness in central florida by equipping individuals and families to become self-sufficient through housing, outreach, prevention, and education.
Restoring Hope Center, Inc. is a benovolence organization operating in Laurinburg, NC. The organization has benevolence programs providing food and supplies to the local area, supplies other smaller like-kind organizations, conducts a…
Together with our partners, we provide healthy solutions to end hunger in our community.
The food bank purchases food and obtains donations of food from the united states department of agriculture, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, growers and community members for distribution to people in need in 25 counties and eight…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Connection Inc and the most unlike its peers is Back 2 School Festival Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 14% 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.
25 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. 25 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 FARM CAFE INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds Bounty & Soul ↗
- Who funds OASIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF PINELLAS ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Western Youth Network Inc ↗
- Who funds St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds WATAUGA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOOD CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD4KIDS BACKPACK PROGRAM OF NORTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Child Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PEACEFUL PATHS INC ↗
- Who funds NOAHS ARK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BACK 2 SCHOOL FESTIVAL INC ↗
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: Dogwood Health Trust · North Carolina Community Foundation · Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · High Country United Way · Helen M Clabough Charitable Foundation · The Celia Lipton Farris and Victor W Farris Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Couch Family Foundation(25 · The High Country Charitable Foundation · The George T Baker Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Florida
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 Gail Handel Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Child Advocacy Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Peaceful Paths Inc — 39% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
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.