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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.

$244k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
23%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$45,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 20
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$4.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Gail Handel Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving16$244k31%
FY202413$229k23%
FY202319$247k32%
FY202220$302k35%
FY202115$218k53%
FY20207$40k71%
FY20196$31kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$778kHousing & Shelter$167kHuman Services$75kRecreation & Sports$67kYouth Development$65kEducation$35kAnimals$33kHealth$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($651k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Gail Handel Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFarm Cafe Inc: $110,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetHospitality House of Northwest North Carolina: $70,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBeloved Asheville: $46,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBounty & Soul: $45,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Hunger and Health Coalition Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Pinellas: $40,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBlue Ridge Women in Agriculture: $40,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetOasis Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetPartnership for Strong Families Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Western Youth Network Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSt Petersburg Free Clinic Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWatauga Humane Society: $18,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFood Connection Inc: $17,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAchievement Academy Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAsheville Humane Society Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFood4kids Backpack Program of North Florida Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetManna Food Bank Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMountain Alliance Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNoahs Ark of Central Florida Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMetropolitan Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChild Advocacy Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPeaceful Paths Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBack 2 School Festival Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Dogwood Health TrustNC19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Gail Handel Family Foundation Inc

How much does Gail Handel Family Foundation Inc give?
Gail Handel Family Foundation Inc reported 17 grants totaling $243,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Gail Handel Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (59%), Housing & Shelter (13%), Human Services (6%).
Who are Gail Handel Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Farm Cafe Inc ($110k), Hospitality House of Northwest North Carolina ($70k), Beloved Asheville ($46k).
Does Gail Handel Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gail Handel Family Foundation Inc 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 Gail Handel Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dogwood Health Trust, North Carolina Community Foundation, Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc.
Where is Gail Handel Family Foundation Inc based?
Gail Handel Family Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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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