North Carolina · Private foundation
George Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2025
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 63
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations George Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $431k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 51 | $1.4M | 4% |
| FY2024 | 60 | $1.6M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $1.3M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $1.9M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $1.1M | 62% |
| FY2020 | 63 | $813k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of Catawba Valley Inc | $810,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Hickory Museum of Art Inc | $650,000 | 6 | 45% |
| Hickory Day School Inc | $515,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Sabre Society of North Carolina | $500,000 | 1 | 52% |
| Medical University of South Carolina Foundation | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Catawba Valley Community College Foundation Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc | $360,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lenoir-Rhyne University | $260,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Habitat For Humanity of Catawba Valley Inc | $250,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Hart Square Foundation Inc | $205,000 | 3 | 7% |
Show all 100 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($663k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
George Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 95 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · Beaver Family Foundation Inc · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · The Bolick Foundation · Tsh Charitable Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Underdown Family Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Broyhill Family Foundation Inc · Catawba County United Way Inc
How this is measured
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About George Foundation Inc
- How much does George Foundation Inc give?
- George Foundation Inc reported 58 grants totaling $1,397,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 63 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does George Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Education (21%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are George Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Young Men's Christian Association of Catawba Valley Inc ($810k), Hickory Museum of Art Inc ($650k), Hickory Day School Inc ($515k).
- Does George Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does George Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as George Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Carolina Community Foundation, Beaver Family Foundation Inc, E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation.
- Where is George Foundation Inc based?
- George Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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