North Carolina · Private foundation
Lena Sue and C Grier Beam 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.
- $32k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $660k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Lena Sue and C Grier Beam Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 13 | $32k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $44k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $37k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $44k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $40k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $35k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $35k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $35k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Atrium Health Foundation | $52,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Holy Angels Inc | $20,500 | 9 | 0% |
| C Grier Beam Truck Museum | $15,000 | 2 | 17% |
| Gaston College Foundation | $12,500 | 4 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $10,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Beloved Asheville | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tri-County Animal Rescue Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Cherryville High School Education Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Jeff Gordon Childrens Foundation | $4,750 | 6 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($74k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lena Sue and C Grier Beam Family 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: Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Lena Sue and C Grier Beam Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Lena Sue and C Grier Beam Family Foundation
- How much does Lena Sue and C Grier Beam Family Foundation give?
- Lena Sue and C Grier Beam Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $31,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lena Sue and C Grier Beam Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (58%), Religion (10%), Education (7%).
- Who are Lena Sue and C Grier Beam Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($90k), Atrium Health Foundation ($53k), Holy Angels Inc ($21k).
- Does Lena Sue and C Grier Beam Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lena Sue and C Grier Beam 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 Lena Sue and C Grier Beam Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Lena Sue and C Grier Beam Family Foundation based?
- Lena Sue and C Grier Beam Family Foundation is based in NC.
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