North Carolina · Private foundation
Gipson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 71
- Grants FY2025
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 68
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $83M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Gipson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $139k 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 | 69 | $2.7M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 66 | $2.7M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 68 | $2.2M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $824k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $877k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $1.1M | 18% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $1.5M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 56 | $1.4M | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin & Marshall College | $1,065,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Dorothea Dix Park Conservancy | $762,955 | 4 | 15% |
| Hoosac School | $500,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc | $495,000 | 3 | 10% |
| The Hope Center at Pullen Inc | $430,000 | 3 | 20% |
| Raleigh Area Land Trust | $315,000 | 4 | 18% |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) | $300,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Healing Transitions Inc | $273,500 | 5 | 1% |
| American Liver Foundation | $260,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc | $255,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 85 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gipson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 79 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Gipson Family Foundation
- How much does Gipson Family Foundation give?
- Gipson Family Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $2,660,009 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 68 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gipson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (15%), Education (15%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Gipson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Franklin & Marshall College ($1.1M), Dorothea Dix Park Conservancy ($763k), Hoosac School ($500k).
- Does Gipson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gipson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gipson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation, John Rex Endowment.
- Where is Gipson Family Foundation based?
- Gipson Family Foundation is based in NC.
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