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Gorrell Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$110k
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.

Education$400kReligion$365kHealth$326kHuman Services$321kCommunity Improvement$69kArts & Culture$54kYouth Development$45kRecreation & Sports$26kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $146k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
$6,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREENSBORO DAY SCHOOL$110,000
CONE HEALTH$40,000
WEST MARKET STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$20,000
SANCTUARY HOUSE$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
WOLFEBORO CENTRE COMMUNITY CHURCH$16,000
KINGSWOOD YOUTH CENTER$10,000
THE ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER GREENSBORO$10,000
CROSSOVER HEALTHCARE$10,000
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH WOLFEBORO$8,000
THE CHILDREN'S CENTER$7,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
FRIENDS OF THE WOLFE$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
SOAR365$5,000
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 (FY18–25, $282k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SANCTUARY HOUSE: $65k → 16%JACKSON FIELD HOMES: $3k → 24%SANCTUARY HOUSE: $52k → 16%JACKSON FIELD HOMES: $3k → 24%JACKSON FIELD HOMES: $2k → 24%JACKSON FIELD HOMES: $2k → 24%JACKSON FIELD HOMES: $2k → 24%SANCTUARY HOUSE: $50k → 16%JACKSON FIELD HOMES: $1k → 24%JACKSON FIELD HOMES: $1k → 24%JACKSON FIELD HOMES: $1k → 24%SANCTUARY HOUSE: $25k → 16%SANCTUARY HOUSE: $25k → 16%YMCA CAMP BELKNAP: $5k → 9%SANCTUARY HOUSE: $20k → 16%SANCTUARY HOUSE: $20k → 16%YMCA CAMP BELKNAP: $2k → 9%SANCTUARY HOUSE: $5k → 16%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 26 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
13

Total granted

$1.7M
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+150%

Still filing today

58%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEmploymentOther
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

  • GI
    Greensboro Independent School Corp
    9× · 2017–2025 · $327k · revenue +71%
  • SH
    Sanctuary House Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $262k · revenue +131%
  • TC
    THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $58k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • RC
    ROTARY CAROUSEL LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $47k
  • TN
    THE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +150%
  • JR
    JAMES RIVER CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
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
Goodwill Industries of Central North Car

Goodwill industries of central north carolina, inc.'s mission is improving lives and enriching communities through the power of work

Employment
2
Greater Raleigh Area Christian Education Inc

Grace christian school is a loving community that spiritually and academically equips, challenges, and inspires students to impact their world for christ.

Education
3
Greensboro Historical Museum Inc

Together with its diverse communities, the organization collects objects and stories, connects generations, and challenges people to explore our city's past, present and future. the museum sparks wonder through bold exhibitions and…

Arts & Culture
4
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
5
Roxboro Community School Inc

Operation of a public charter school

Education
6
Haywood Pathways Center Inc

Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.

Housing & Shelter
7
Granville Health Inc

The purpose of the corporation is to engage in charitable efforts and to support granville health system in providing healthcare and related services to the citizens and residents of granville county and the surrounding community.

Health
8
Guilford Charter School Corporation

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
9
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
10
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
11
Rockingham County Historical Society Museum and Archives

The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina

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12
Greater Winston-Salem Development Corp

To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wolfeboro Centre Community Church. 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

27 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. 27 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
16/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST MARKET STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $263,450 · OtherWEST MARKET STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $132,350 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE DOORWAYS: $52,500 · OtherTHE DOORWAYSGRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $49,000 · OtherGRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHROTARY CAROUSEL LLC: $47,000 · OtherROTARY CAROUSEL LLCALIGHT INC: $33,000 · Other+25 more: $173,704 · Other+25 moreGreensboro Independent School Corp: $327,000 · EducationGreensboro Independent …WOLFEBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $31,500 · EducationWOLFEBORO PUBLIC LIBRAR…St Andrew's School: $25,000 · EducationSt Andrew's School+2 more: $14,500 · EducationSanctuary House Inc: $261,758 · Human ServicesSanctuary House …JACKSON FEILD HOMES: $13,404 · Human Services+1 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesMOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION: $199,803 · HealthMOSES H CONE ME…THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $58,000 · HealthTHE CROSS-OVER …+1 more: $2,000 · HealthWOLFEBORO CENTRE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $26,000 · Arts & CulturePreservation Greensboro Inc: $21,854 · Arts & CultureTHE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER: $20,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureKINGSWOOD YOUTH CENTER INC: $37,500 · Youth DevelopmentEND 68 HOURS OF HUNGER: $11,000 · Food & NutritionFEED MORE INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$821,004Education$398,000Human Services$282,162Health$259,803Arts & Culture$79,854Youth Development$37,500Food & Nutrition$16,000

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 budgetGreensboro Independent School Corp: $327,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSanctuary House Inc: $261,758 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetMOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION: $199,803 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $58,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKINGSWOOD YOUTH CENTER INC: $37,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetALIGHT INC: $33,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetWOLFEBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $31,500 over 5y, 15% of budgetWOLFEBORO CENTRE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $26,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetSt Andrew's School: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPreservation Greensboro Inc: $21,854 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetTHE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJACKSON FEILD HOMES: $13,404 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEND 68 HOURS OF HUNGER: $11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL: $9,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREENSBORO PARKS FOUNDATION: $8,350 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetYMCA CAMP BELKNAP INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFEED MORE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWentworth Watershed Association: $5,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY HOUSE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN HILL CENTER FOR NORTH CAROLINA ART: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHE ROCKS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 Greensboro Independent School Corp ↗
  • Who funds Sanctuary House Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds KINGSWOOD YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ALIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds WOLFEBORO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOLFEBORO CENTRE COMMUNITY CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds St Andrew's School ↗
  • Who funds Preservation Greensboro Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO INC DBA GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON FEILD HOMES ↗
  • Who funds END 68 HOURS OF HUNGER ↗
  • Who funds UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
  • Who funds A SPECIAL BLEND INC ↗
  • Who funds ANNA JULIA COOPER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GREENSBORO PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YMCA CAMP BELKNAP INC ↗
  • Who funds SOAR 365 ↗
  • Who funds Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc ↗
  • Who funds FEED MORE INC ↗
  • Who funds Wentworth Watershed Association ↗

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.

Griffin Family Founda…Lincoln Financial Fou…Amg Charitable Gift F…The Allendale FundThe Edward M Armfield…Community Foundation …The Community Foundat…Egerton Family Founda…Loomis Family Foundat…The Anonymous FundDawn S Chaney Foundat…William a Stern Found…
Griffin Family FoundationNC22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Gorrell Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Gorrell Family 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 51 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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