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George Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.9MEducation$1.7MHuman Services$1.2MHealth$923kFood & Nutrition$812kPhilanthropy$433kHousing & Shelter$376kPublic Safety & Disaster$170kOther$0
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $296k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $600k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY$50,000
LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY$50,000
UNC-G EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC$50,000
HICKORY DAY SCHOOL INC$50,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CATAWBA VALLEY 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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CALDWELL COUNTY YOKEFELLOW INC: $10k → 16%FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER: $5k → 12%CAROLINA CARING FOUNDATION INC: $35k → 12%CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF CALDWELL COUNTY INC: $1k → 16%CAROLINA CARING FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 12%CAROLINA CARING FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 12%CAROLINA CARING FOUNDATION INC: $20k → 12%EASTERN CATAWBA COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $10k → 12%EASTERN CATAWBA COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC: $10k → 12%YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $200k → 12%YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $200k → 12%YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $150k → 12%YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $100k → 12%YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $100k → 12%YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $50k → 12%YMCA OF CATAWBA VALLEY: $10k → 12%SIPE'S ORACHARD HOME: $20k → 12%SIPE'S ORCHARD HOME: $10k → 12%SIPES ORCHARD HOME: $5k → 12%FAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $2k → 12%SIPES ORCHARD HOME: $5k → 12%NEW BEGINNINGS HICKORY: $2k → 12%FAMILY CARE CENTER: $2k → 12%SIPES ORCHARD HOME: $5k → 12%FAMILY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $2k → 12%SHINING HOPE FARMS: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 72 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
65

Total granted

$6.2M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+17%

Still filing today

88%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $810k · revenue +49%
  • HM
    HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $650k · revenue +15% · 45% of their budget
  • HD
    HICKORY DAY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $515k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • SS
    SABRE SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -89% · 52% of their budget
  • MU
    MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +34%
  • MANNA FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +141%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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2
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
3
United Way of Horry County Inc

To unite people, ideas, and resources to advance the common good in horry county

Philanthropy
4
Conway Hospital Community Services

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.

Health
5
United Way of Coastal Carolina Inc

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.

Philanthropy
6
Caswell County Partnership for Children Inc

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.

Education
7
Carolina Small Business Development Fund

Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.

Public Benefit
8
Carolina Meadows Foundation Inc

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.

Human Services
9
Habitat for Humanity Cabarrus County

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.

Housing & Shelter
10
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
11
Carteret County General Hospital Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
12
North Carolina Council On Economic Education Inc

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…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Chamber Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

97 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. 97 of the 139 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/97
Grantees still filing
63/97
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HICKORY DAY SCHOOL INC: $515,000 · OtherHICKORY DAY SCHOOL INCSABRE SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $500,000 · OtherSABRE SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINACATAWBA VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 · OtherCATAWBA VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO…Habitat For Humanity of Catawba Valley Inc: $250,000 · OtherHabitat For Humanity of Catawba Valley Inc+75 more: $1,428,830 · Other+75 moreHICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC: $650,000 · Arts & CultureHICKORY MUSEUM O…SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 · Arts & CultureSALT BLOCK FOUND…CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC: $140,000 · Arts & CultureCATAWBA SCIENCE …HICKORY COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $135,000 · Arts & CultureHICKORY COMMUNIT…UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC: $60,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $94,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $810,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRI…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $150,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nationa…CAROLINA CARING FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesCAROLINA CARING …SIPES ORCHARD HOME: $45,000 · Human Services+9 more: $93,500 · Human Services+9 moreMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $500,000 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVER…PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $120,000 · HealthPREGNANCY CARE…GREATER HICKORY COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $97,000 · HealthGREATER HICKOR…EXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · HealthEXODUS OUTREAC…CALDWELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · HealthCALDWELL MEMOR…American Heart Association Inc: $41,000 · HealthCATAWBA MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Health+7 more: $67,500 · Health+7 moreLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY: $260,000 · EducationUNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationSALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationPATRICK BEAVER LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER INC: $60,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC: $40,000 · EducationDEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationBOOKMARKS INC: $25,000 · Education+4 more: $30,500 · EducationSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $360,000 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $100,000 · Food & NutritionSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $76,500 · Food & NutritionGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDNC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionHART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC: $205,000 · PhilanthropyCATAWBA COUNTY UNITED WAY INC: $92,000 · PhilanthropyMUSE WINSTON-SALEM: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FOUNDATION OF CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,093,830Arts & Culture$1,224,000Human Services$1,208,500Health$1,020,500Education$645,500Food & Nutrition$636,500Philanthropy$339,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $810,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetHICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC: $650,000 over 6y, 45% of budgetHICKORY DAY SCHOOL INC: $515,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetSABRE SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $500,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCATAWBA VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $360,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY: $260,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat For Humanity of Catawba Valley Inc: $250,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetHART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC: $205,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetCATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC: $140,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetHICKORY COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $135,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetPREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC: $120,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCAROLINA CARING FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC: $102,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAROLINA THREAD TRAIL: $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetGREATER HICKORY COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $97,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCATAWBA COUNTY UNITED WAY INC: $92,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetEXODUS OUTREACH FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $76,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALDWELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCLASSROOM CONNECTIONS: $72,500 over 5y, 31% of budgetPATRICK BEAVER LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER INC: $60,000 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC: $60,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetCALDWELL COUNTY UNITED FUND INC: $52,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF FLORENCE COUNTY: $50,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCatawba County Hispanic Ministry: $50,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetSIPES ORCHARD HOME: $45,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $41,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATAWBA MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDEAF AND BLIND PATHWAYS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $30,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetCALDWELL COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMUSE WINSTON-SALEM: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBOOKMARKS INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFEEDNC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWESTERN PIEDMONT SYMPHONY INC: $22,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHICKORY SOUP KITCHEN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budget
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.

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.

North Carolina Commun…Beaver Family Foundat…E Rhodes and Leona B …The Bolick FoundationTsh Charitable Founda…The Cannon Foundation…Underdown Family Foun…Corning Incorporated …Duke Energy FoundationFoundation for the Ca…Broyhill Family Found…Catawba County United…
North Carolina Community FoundationNC76.8× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization George Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to George Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to George Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 139 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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