North Carolina · Public charity
Smart Start Rowan Inc
In collaboration with our community partners, we plan, fund and implement quality early childhood deucation, health, and family support initiatives.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $149,520
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $542,850
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $287k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Smart Start Rowan Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 | 14 | $2.3M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $2.4M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $2.3M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $2.3M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $2.4M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rowan-Salisbury School System | $3,500,079 | 6 | n/a |
| Partners in Learning Child Develop- Ment and Family Resource Center | $2,150,452 | 6 | 11% |
| Cornerstone Church of Salisbury Inc | $1,577,993 | 6 | n/a |
| St Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church | $1,301,394 | 6 | n/a |
| Kiddie Land Kindergarten | $1,105,373 | 6 | n/a |
| Rowan County Health Department | $905,413 | 6 | n/a |
| Salisbury-Rowan Community Action Agency | $888,073 | 6 | 3% |
| Kannapolis City Schools | $770,741 | 6 | n/a |
| South Rowan Academy | $735,265 | 6 | n/a |
| Advantage Children's Center | $461,122 | 6 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rowan-Salisbury School System | $3,500,079 | 6 | n/a |
| Partners in Learning Child Develop- Ment and Family Resource Center | $2,150,452 | 6 | 11% |
| Cornerstone Church of Salisbury Inc | $1,577,993 | 6 | n/a |
| St Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church | $1,301,394 | 6 | n/a |
| Kiddie Land Kindergarten | $1,105,373 | 6 | n/a |
| Rowan County Health Department | $905,413 | 6 | n/a |
| Salisbury-Rowan Community Action Agency | $888,073 | 6 | 3% |
| Kannapolis City Schools | $770,741 | 6 | n/a |
| South Rowan Academy | $735,265 | 6 | n/a |
| Advantage Children's Center | $461,122 | 6 | n/a |
| Terrie Hess Child Advocacy Center | $261,296 | 6 | 5% |
| First United Methodist Church - Salisbury | $190,892 | 3 | n/a |
| Noah's Playloft | $52,394 | 4 | n/a |
| Happy Day | $29,864 | 4 | n/a |
| Kid's 1st Childcare Academy | $14,341 | 2 | n/a |
| A Mother's Choice Child Care Center | $12,685 | 1 | n/a |
| Amazing Grace Advocacy | $10,400 | 2 | 5% |
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 · Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Smart Start Rowan Inc
- How much does Smart Start Rowan Inc give?
- Smart Start Rowan Inc reported 14 grants totaling $2,362,961 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Smart Start Rowan Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Human Services (25%), Health (16%).
- Who are Smart Start Rowan Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Rowan-Salisbury School System ($3.5M), Partners in Learning Child Develop- Ment and Family Resource Center ($2.2M), Cornerstone Church of Salisbury Inc ($1.6M).
- Does Smart Start Rowan Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Smart Start Rowan Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Smart Start Rowan Inc based?
- Smart Start Rowan Inc is based in NC.
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