· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG FAMILIES | $20,000 |
| PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF ASHEVILLE | $20,000 |
| HOMEWARD BOUND OF NC | $20,000 |
| BOUNTY & SOUL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| FOOD4KIDS BACKPACK PROGRAM OF NORTH FL | $10,000 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SUNNY CARES FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NC | $5,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF PINELLAS | $5,000 |
| ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE | $5,000 |
| FARM CAFE | $5,000 |
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 (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 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 +86% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +150%
- AABCCMone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 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.
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 FARM CAFE INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds Bounty & Soul ↗
- Who funds THE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF PINELLAS ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE WOMEN IN AGRICULTURE ↗
- Who funds OASIS INC ↗
- 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 ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD4KIDS BACKPACK PROGRAM OF NORTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc ↗
- Who funds Mountain Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NOAHS ARK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Child Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PEACEFUL PATHS INC ↗
- Who funds BACK 2 SCHOOL FESTIVAL INC ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gail Handel Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gail Handel Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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