North Carolina · Private foundation
Guess Family Foundation
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.
- $65k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 26
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 58% of the organizations Guess Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 | 28 | $65k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $52k | 58% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $34k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $47k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $59k | 79% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $34k | 88% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $4k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rainforest Trust | $12,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Plm Families Together Inc | $11,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Church of the Good Shepherd Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ocean Defenders Alliance | $9,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Hilltop Home Inc | $9,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ocean Conservancy | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Corral Riding Academy | $7,104 | 2 | 0% |
| Gift of Life International Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($136k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Guess Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Duke Energy Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Mistler Charitable Trust · Duke University Health System Inc · John William Pope Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · John Rex Endowment · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Guess Family Foundation
- How much does Guess Family Foundation give?
- Guess Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $65,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Guess Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (16%), Environment (12%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
- Who are Guess Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Rainforest Trust ($12k), Plm Families Together Inc ($11k), Church of the Good Shepherd Inc ($10k).
- Does Guess Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Guess Family Foundation 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 Guess Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, Triangle Community Foundation Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation.
- Where is Guess Family Foundation based?
- Guess Family Foundation is based in NC.
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