· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEREDITH COLLEGE | $20,500 |
| BLUMENTHAL PERFORMING ARTS | $15,000 |
| SOUTH ELEMENTARY PTSO | $10,306 |
| FEED NC | $10,000 |
| HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF IREDELL COUNTY | $10,000 |
| KINDNESS CLOSET | $8,000 |
| COOL KIDS CLUBHOUSE | $7,000 |
| HEALTH REACH COMMUNITY CLINIC | $5,000 |
| DOVE HOUSE ADVOCACY CENTER | $5,000 |
| UNC CHAPEL HILL | $5,000 |
| CAIN CENTER FOR ARTS | $5,000 |
| ELON UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS | $5,000 |
| INSPIRE OUR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| HOPE AT THE LAKE | $2,500 |
| BIG WATER CREATIVE ARTS | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
29 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MAMooresville Area Christian Mission Inc3× · 2018–2024 · $67k · revenue +170%
- CKCOOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +29%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc3× · 2018–2021 · $17k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS CCone grant, 2021 · $50k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS CENTRAL CAROLINAone grant, 2023 · $20k
- CFCharmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Allianceone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -6%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
To provide affordable housing to senior citizens in chapel hill, nc.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.
The mission of union county crisis assistance ministry is to help families with an urgent financial emergency to meet essential needs and to, once again, become self-sufficient. the primary objective of the crisis intervention program is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Iredell County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Inspire Our Children Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FEEDNC ↗
- Who funds Mooresville Area Christian Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds CORNELIUS ARTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Inspire Our Children Inc ↗
- Who funds COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds LASTING SMILES UGANDA INC ↗
- Who funds Charmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Alliance ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF IREDELL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE KINDNESS CLOSET INC ↗
- Who funds Big Water Creative Arts ↗
- Who funds HealthReach Community Clinic ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds Special Treasures of Iredell County Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOMES OF IREDELL COUNTY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Jena and Bob Gallagher Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.