· Private foundation
Gipson Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $786k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $535k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAKE MED FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| DIX PARK CONSERVANCY | $250,000 |
| DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| SOUTHEAST RALEIGH PROMISE | $100,000 |
| RALEIGH AREA LAND TRUST | $90,000 |
| THE HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN | $75,000 |
| EAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HOUSE | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,000 |
| NC MUSEUM OF ART | $35,100 |
| HEALING TRANSITIONS | $33,500 |
| OAK CITY CARES | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KINGS COUNTY | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN LIVER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +28% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
92 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 12 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY4× · 2018–2025 · $763k · revenue +232%
THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $495k · revenue +121%
THE HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN INC3× · 2017–2025 · $430k · revenue +223%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2018 · $190k
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $125k
- TGTHE GOG FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
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.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Trc partners with bipoc youth and their ecosystems to strengthen their sense of identity, belonging, and purpose so they can create a healthier, more equitable wake county.
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and the most unlike its peers is Tri-Area Ministry Food Pantry. 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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
86 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 86 of the 151 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 FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HOOSAC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN INC ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH AREA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds HEALING TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds American Liver Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds SE RALEIGH PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds OAK CITY CARES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAKE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of the Triangle Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE GOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE TOMORROW'S PARENTS ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds Littleton Academy Inc ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · John Rex Endowment · Duke Energy Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation 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 Gipson Family Foundation 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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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