North Carolina · Private foundation
Gorrell Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $312k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $110,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Gorrell Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 23 | $312k | 48% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $240k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $300k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $300k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $246k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $246k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $138k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $93k | 70% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greensboro Independent School Corp | $327,000 | 9 | 0% |
| West Market Street United Methodist Church | $263,450 | 7 | n/a |
| Sanctuary House Inc | $261,758 | 8 | 3% |
| Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation | $199,803 | 7 | 0% |
| The Cross-Over Ministry Inc | $58,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kingswood Youth Center Inc | $37,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Alight Inc | $33,000 | 2 | 38% |
| Wolfeboro Public Library Foundation Inc | $31,500 | 5 | 15% |
| Wolfeboro Centre Community Church | $26,000 | 2 | 64% |
| St Andrew's School | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($469k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gorrell Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 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: Griffin Family Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Allendale Fund · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · Egerton Family Foundation Inc · Loomis Family Foundation Inc · The Anonymous Fund · Dawn S Chaney Foundation · William a Stern Foundation
How this is measured
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About Gorrell Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Gorrell Family Foundation Inc give?
- Gorrell Family Foundation Inc reported 23 grants totaling $312,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gorrell Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Religion (19%), Health (17%).
- Who are Gorrell Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greensboro Independent School Corp ($327k), West Market Street United Methodist Church ($263k), Sanctuary House Inc ($262k).
- Does Gorrell Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gorrell Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gorrell Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Griffin Family Foundation, Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc, Amg Charitable Gift Foundation.
- Where is Gorrell Family Foundation Inc based?
- Gorrell Family Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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