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Gipson Family Foundation at a glance

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Gipson Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
71
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$2.4MEducation$2.3MArts & Culture$2.3MHousing & Shelter$1.6MHuman Services$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.0MRecreation & Sports$806kReligion$671kOther$0
02FY2025 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $786k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $535k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$83M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HOUSE$60,000
EAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$60,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Individual grant recipient$45,000
NC MUSEUM OF ART$35,100
HEALING TRANSITIONS$33,500
AMERICAN LIVER FOUNDATION$30,000
OAK CITY CARES$30,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KINGS COUNTY$30,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER: $5k → 6%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD: $5k → 11%HOSPARUS HEALTH: $11k → 15%PREBLE STREET: $10k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $10k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $10k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $10k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $5k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $5k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $5k → 7%WINDERMERE FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%THE HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN: $350k → 8%THE HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN: $75k → 8%THE HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN: $5k → 8%EDUCATE TOMORROWS PARENTS: $10k → 8%EDUCATE TOMORROWS PARENTS: $8k → 8%RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION: $450k → 8%RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 8%RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION: $20k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $10k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $8k → 8%NOTE IN THE POCKET: $5k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $5k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $5k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $5k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $5k → 8%NOTE IN THE POCKET: $5k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $5k → 8%NOTE IN THE POCKET: $5k → 8%STEP UP MINISTRY: $3k → 8%TRI AREA MINISTY FOOD PANTRY: $10k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $125k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $25k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $25k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $25k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $25k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $25k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $25k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $25k → 8%EL PUEBLO INC: $50k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MT
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
UT
MO
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 92 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
45

Total granted

$12M
$818k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+17%

Still filing today

53%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY
    4× · 2018–2025 · $763k · revenue +232%
  • THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $495k · revenue +121%
  • THE HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN INC
    3× · 2017–2025 · $430k · revenue +223%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES
    one grant, 2018 · $190k
  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $125k
  • TG
    THE GOG FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
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
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
2
Furman University

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.

Education
3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
North Carolina Chamber

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…

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5
Npr Foundation

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…

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6
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

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…

Science & Tech
7
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
8
The Resiliency Collaborative Inc

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.

Education
9
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
10
National Opinion Research Center

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…

Social Science
11
People Inc

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,…

Human Services
12
Unc Health Foundation Inc

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center; 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.
04the grantee network

86 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/86
Grantees still filing
55/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NC MUSEUM OF ART: $1,767,271 · OtherNC MUSEUM OF ARTWAKE MED FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · OtherWAKE MED FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $325,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $300,000 · Other+98 more: $4,566,465 · Other+98 moreFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $1,065,000 · EducationFRANKLIN & MAR…HOOSAC SCHOOL: $500,000 · EducationHOOSAC SCHOOLCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAKE COUNTY: $160,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN…DONORSCHOOSEORG: $95,000 · EducationLittleton Academy Inc: $85,000 · Education+4 more: $101,000 · EducationTHE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC: $495,000 · Human ServicesTHE RALEIGH R…THE HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN INC: $430,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOPE CENT…The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $300,000 · Human ServicesThe Young Men…SE RALEIGH PROMISE INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesSE RALEIGH PR…EDUCATE TOMORROW'S PARENTS: $98,000 · Human Services+11 more: $317,000 · Human Services+11 moreDOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY: $762,955 · Recreation & SportsGirls on the Run of the Triangle Inc: $140,000 · Recreation & SportsBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY: $105,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $18,000 · Recreation & SportsTRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,030,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyHEALING TRANSITIONS INC: $273,500 · HealthAmerican Liver Foundation: $260,000 · HealthTHE GOG FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $45,000 · HealthTHE WIDE OPEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Health+6 more: $29,000 · HealthRALEIGH AREA LAND TRUST: $315,000 · Housing & ShelterOAK CITY CARES INC: $195,000 · Housing & ShelterCASA: $111,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT: $60,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$7,958,736Education$2,006,000Human Services$1,890,000Recreation & Sports$1,095,955Philanthropy$1,031,500Health$747,500Housing & Shelter$686,000

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 budgetFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $1,065,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,030,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetDOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY: $762,955 over 4y, 15% of budgetHOOSAC SCHOOL: $500,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC: $495,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER AT PULLEN INC: $430,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetRALEIGH AREA LAND TRUST: $315,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $300,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHEALING TRANSITIONS INC: $273,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation: $260,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $255,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSE RALEIGH PROMISE INC: $250,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetOAK CITY CARES INC: $195,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAKE COUNTY: $160,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetGirls on the Run of the Triangle Inc: $140,000 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCASA: $111,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY: $105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOG FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATE TOMORROW'S PARENTS: $98,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $95,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLittleton Academy Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSOFIA AMERICAN SCHOOLS INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEAST WAKE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ARTS IN ACTION INC: $60,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetNATIONAL HOUSING ENDOWMENT: $60,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $55,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEL PUEBLO INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSTEPUP MINISTRY: $46,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WIDE OPEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetTHE SERVING CUP D/B/A BUILDING INDEPENDENCE: $40,000 over 8y, 85% of budgetKAKENYA CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE: $40,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTRI-AREA MINISTRY FOOD PANTRY: $35,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHEATRE RALEIGH INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSYLVAN HEIGHTS WATERFOWL PARK & ECO-CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRALEIGH YOUTH CHOIR INC: $20,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds SOFIA AMERICAN SCHOOLS INC ↗

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.

Triangle Community Fo…North Carolina Commun…John Rex EndowmentDuke Energy FoundationBell Koonce Burnette …Aj Fletcher FoundationJohn William Pope Fou…United Way of the Gre…Bell Schaefer Family …W Trent Ragland Jr Fo…A E Finley Foundation…Truist Foundation Inc
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC52.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Gipson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gipson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Gipson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gipson Family Foundation 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 151 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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