· Private foundation
George Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $296k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $600k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC | $400,000 |
| CATAWBA VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC | $100,000 |
| YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY | $100,000 |
| CATAWBA COUNTY UNITED WAY INC | $50,000 |
| UNC-G EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC | $50,000 |
| YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY | $50,000 |
| HICKORY DAY SCHOOL INC | $50,000 |
| CAROLINA CARING FOUNDATION INC | $35,000 |
| CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC | $35,000 |
| GREATER HICKORY COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY | $30,000 |
| SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC | $22,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $810k · revenue +49%
- HMHICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC6× · 2020–2025 · $650k · revenue +15% · 45% of their budget
- HDHICKORY DAY SCHOOL INC4× · 2020–2025 · $515k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- SSSABRE SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINAone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -89% · 52% of their budget
- MUMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +34%
- SASALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
To unite people, ideas, and resources to advance the common good in horry county
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
The united way of coastal carolina, inc. strives to meet the current and emerging human needs in craven, carteret, jones, and pamlico counties by mobilizing the resources of community organizations, agencies, recipients, and volunteers.
The caswell county partnership for children unites the community to provide families with resources and services to enable all children to reach their fullest potential.
Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
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.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
The nccee provides economic and financial education for educators and students throughout north carolina. this mission is accomplished through standards based workshops and a variety of resources for educators, academic competitions for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Chamber Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
97 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 97 of the 139 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SABRE SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC ↗
- Who funds LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Habitat For Humanity of Catawba Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds HART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA CARING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL ↗
- Who funds GREATER HICKORY COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds EXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PATRICK BEAVER LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL COUNTY UNITED FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Catawba County Hispanic Ministry ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF FLORENCE COUNTY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization George Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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