North Carolina · Private foundation
Jena and Bob Gallagher 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.
- $116k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Jena and Bob Gallagher Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 | 16 | $116k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $235k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $190k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $100k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $170k | 54% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $196k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $81k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $65k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meredith College | $572,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Feednc | $269,250 | 6 | 1% |
| Mooresville Area Christian Mission Inc | $67,300 | 3 | 1% |
| Cornelius Arts Community Center Inc | $37,500 | 3 | 4% |
| Inspire Our Children Inc | $29,000 | 8 | n/a |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $20,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Cool Kids Campaign Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 1% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $16,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Elon University | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lasting Smiles Uganda Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($547k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jena and Bob Gallagher Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Dale Jr Foundation · United Way of Iredell County Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Cecile G Ebert Charitable Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Short Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Jena and Bob Gallagher Foundation
- How much does Jena and Bob Gallagher Foundation give?
- Jena and Bob Gallagher Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $115,806 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jena and Bob Gallagher Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Jena and Bob Gallagher Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Meredith College ($573k), Feednc ($269k), Mooresville Area Christian Mission Inc ($67k).
- Does Jena and Bob Gallagher Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jena and Bob Gallagher 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 Jena and Bob Gallagher Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, The Dale Jr Foundation, United Way of Iredell County Inc.
- Where is Jena and Bob Gallagher Foundation based?
- Jena and Bob Gallagher Foundation is based in NC.
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