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Gary & Catherine L Graham 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.

$50k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
75%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$923k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Gary & Catherine L Graham Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationEmploymentOther
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$48k40%
FY20244$55k75%
FY20235$42k100%
FY20223$55k100%
FY20211$10k0%
FY20203$15k100%
FY20191$10k100%
FY20183$15k100%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$70kReligion$68kAnimals$28kPhilanthropy$28kHousing & Shelter$25kEducation$20kHealth$14kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
NV
PA
CA
KY
NC
TX
FL

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
Kambly Living Center$35,25032%
Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc$25,00015%
BISSELL Pet Foundation$20,00010%
The Haven of Rest Ministries of Battle Creek$20,0001n/a
Hope Medical Clinic Inc$20,00020%
Damiano of Duluth Inc$15,00020%
Texas Baptist Men Inc$12,5002n/a
Willard Library$10,00010%
Friendship House$5,000115%
Faith in Action Inc$5,00010%
Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Gary & Catherine L Graham Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kambly Living Center$35,25032%
Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc$25,00015%
BISSELL Pet Foundation$20,00010%
The Haven of Rest Ministries of Battle Creek$20,0001n/a
Hope Medical Clinic Inc$20,00020%
Damiano of Duluth Inc$15,00020%
Texas Baptist Men Inc$12,5002n/a
Willard Library$10,00010%
Friendship House$5,000115%
Faith in Action Inc$5,00010%
A Special Blend Inc$5,00011%
The Interactive Resource Center Inc$5,00010%
The Arc of Greensboro Inc$4,00010%
Guilford County Department of Health and Human Services$3,0001n/a

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gary & Catherine L Graham Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKambly Living Center: $35,250 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetVolunteer Florida Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetBISSELL Pet Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHope Medical Clinic Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDamiano of Duluth Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWillard Library: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriendship House: $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFaith in Action Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA Special Blend Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Interactive Resource Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Arc of Greensboro Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 11.

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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Gary & Catherine L Graham Foundation

How much does Gary & Catherine L Graham Foundation give?
Gary & Catherine L Graham Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Gary & Catherine L Graham Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Religion (25%), Animals (10%).
Who are Gary & Catherine L Graham Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kambly Living Center ($35k), Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc ($25k), BISSELL Pet Foundation ($20k).
Does Gary & Catherine L Graham Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gary & Catherine L Graham 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 Gary & Catherine L Graham Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Gary & Catherine L Graham Foundation based?
Gary & Catherine L Graham 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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