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Garvie O and Kathleen Chambers Family 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.

$54k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$28,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 20
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Garvie O and Kathleen Chambers Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesOther
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 arriving5$54k0%
FY20245$46k0%
FY20236$73k0%
FY20225$68k40%
FY202110$84k0%
FY202011$58k0%
FY201920$78k80%
FY20184$16k50%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$355kHealth$71kEducation$53kHuman Services$12kArts & Culture$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wesleyan Education Center Inc$51,5009n/a
Elkin Valley Baptist Church$44,0006n/a
The Triad Health Project$40,00070%
Authoracare Collective$21,25030%
Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated$12,00030%
Ministries of The Son of God$10,00026%
Chance Walters Ministries Inc$2,00021%
Yadkin County Schools$1,5001n/a
Back to the Bible$1,50010%
Insight for Living$1,00010%
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All grantees of Garvie O and Kathleen Chambers Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wesleyan Education Center Inc$51,5009n/a
Elkin Valley Baptist Church$44,0006n/a
The Triad Health Project$40,00070%
Authoracare Collective$21,25030%
Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated$12,00030%
Ministries of The Son of God$10,00026%
Chance Walters Ministries Inc$2,00021%
Yadkin County Schools$1,5001n/a
Back to the Bible$1,50010%
Insight for Living$1,00010%
Trans World Radio$1,0001n/a
Bible Broadcasting Network Incorporated$1,00010%
Love Worth Finding Ministries Inc$1,00010%

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($305k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Garvie O and Kathleen Chambers Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Triad Health Project: $40,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetAuthoracare Collective: $21,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBaptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMinistries of The Son of God: $10,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetChance Walters Ministries Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBack to the Bible: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInsight for Living: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBible Broadcasting Network Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLove Worth Finding Ministries Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 9.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Garvie O and Kathleen Chambers Family Foundation

How much does Garvie O and Kathleen Chambers Family Foundation give?
Garvie O and Kathleen Chambers Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $54,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Garvie O and Kathleen Chambers Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (72%), Health (14%), Education (11%).
Who are Garvie O and Kathleen Chambers Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wesleyan Education Center Inc ($52k), Elkin Valley Baptist Church ($44k), The Triad Health Project ($40k).
Does Garvie O and Kathleen Chambers Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Garvie O and Kathleen Chambers Family Foundation 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 Garvie O and Kathleen Chambers Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Endowment Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Garvie O and Kathleen Chambers Family Foundation based?
Garvie O and Kathleen Chambers Family Foundation is based in NC.

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 23 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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