· Community foundation
Gaston Community Foundation
Our mission is to inspire generosity, uplift nonprofits, and connect donors with community needs.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $270k
- $10k–50k92 grants · $2.0M
- $50k–250k31 grants · $3.3M
- $250k+7 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GASTON CO FAMILY YMCA | $1,732,500 |
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $679,624 |
| NC PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION | $677,124 |
| CAROMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $565,200 |
| OTHER UNDER 5000 | $514,594 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST OF GASTONIA | $330,089 |
| CATAWBA LANDS CONSERVANCY | $317,417 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF GASTON | $248,600 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GASTONIA | $219,225 |
| GASTON DAY SCHOOL | $187,485 |
| NCF SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION | $175,000 |
| DANIEL STOWE BOTANICAL GARDEN | $153,020 |
| PIEDMONT COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMER | $143,800 |
| GASTON AQUATICS INC | $143,671 |
| DREAM CENTER ACADEMY | $137,088 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +40% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
219 repeat relationships: 134 still active in FY2024, 85 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER GAS7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +12%
- GCGASTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $883k · revenue +184%
- DJDaniel Jonathan Stowe Conservancy Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $844k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $256k
- BGBILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $251k
- PFProject Freedom Carolinas Incone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -95%
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 provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Gordon college strives to graduate men & women distinguished by (continued on schedule o) (continuation) intellectual maturity and christian character, committed to lives of service and prepared for leadership worldwide.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
Crossnore communities for children champions the well being of children and families by fostering innovative change that weaves a fabric of resilience in homes, schools, and communities.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
Grace lifecare is committed to improving the health of our communities by providing excellent and compassionate care.
To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.
Charlotte christian school is a christ-centered, college preparatory school, equipping and developing students to effectively integrate biblical truth and learning nto their daily lives and to impact the culture for christ.
How this is measured
218 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 218 of the 366 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Gaston County Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER GAS ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Gaston County Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER ST LOUIS BOY SCOUT TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds GASTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Daniel Jonathan Stowe Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GASTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SCHIELE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds GASTON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GASTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GASTON AQUATICS INC ↗
- Who funds Catawba Lands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds GASTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK WEEKEND FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS CAROLINAS PEAKS TO PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Least of These Carolinas ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEAGUE OF GASTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF GASTON C ↗
- Who funds GASTON TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds GASTONIA POTTERS HOUSE 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: The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found · The David Belk Cannon Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Gaston County Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Stowe Foundation Inc · Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Associated Foundation Incorporated · The Howe Foundation Inc · Albemarle Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gaston Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gaston Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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