· Private foundation
Gee Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST TEE OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA | $37,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $35,000 |
| Spartanburg County Historical Socie | $27,000 |
| Atrium Health Foundation | $12,000 |
| SAFE HOMES | $10,000 |
| National MS Society | $8,500 |
| St Jude Childrens Hospital | $4,000 |
| Roll Call | $3,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House | $3,000 |
| The Humane Society of Charlotte | $2,000 |
| Nourish NC | $2,000 |
| Bethel Church | $1,500 |
| Karen Beasley Turtle Rescue | $1,000 |
| Mountain True | $1,000 |
| Feast Down East | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +106% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WBWest Blvd Ministry Inc5× · 2019–2023 · $37k · revenue +238%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2019–2025 · $24k · revenue +99%- NCNorth Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- HBHearts beats as oneone grant, 2020 · $4k
- HFHope From Helen Incone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +23%
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 unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Habitat for humanity works in partnership with god and people everywhere, from all walks of life, to develop communities with gods people in need by building houses, so that there are decent homes in decent communities in whigh gods people…
Habitat for Humanity of High Point, Archdale and Trinity is an ecumenical Christian movement whose goal is to build safe, decent, affordable homes for our neighbors in need. Through conscience and action, Habitat utilizes volunteer labor…
Seeking to put gods love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
Charleston Habitat for Humanitys (CHFH) vision is a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Seeking to put God's love into action, Charleston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. By…
Eradicating housing inequities for people experiencing homelessness
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
The hunger and health coalition relieves poverty and hunger for households experiencing economic hardship and food insecurity. we serve low-income and uninsured residents of avery, watauga and ashe counties who are forced to choose between…
The mission of the Organization is to coordinate, support, and advocate for member Food Banks across the Carolinas to create lasting solutions to address hunger.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
To provide low-cost housing for those in need in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
By the grace of God, Greater Matthews Habitat for Humanity improves lives by building communities and facilitating successful home ownership with people in need of decent, affordable homes.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 31 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 Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds West Blvd Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds NourishNC Inc ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds Bethel Church ↗
- Who funds FEAST DOWN EAST INC ↗
- Who funds Hope From Helen Inc ↗
- Who funds MountainTrue ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SPARTANBURG I ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gee Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gee Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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