· Private foundation
The Cannon Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $126k
- $10k–50k71 grants · $2.0M
- $50k–250k116 grants · $11M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CABARRUS COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC | $500,000 |
| ROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $400,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE TAR RIVER REGION INC | $350,000 |
| PUBLIC HEALTH AUTHORITY OF CABARRUS COUNTY | $300,000 |
| CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE | $250,000 |
| CAROLINA SENIORCARE | $212,433 |
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY | $200,000 |
| ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION | $166,667 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| THE WESTERN YOUTH NETWORK INC | $150,000 |
| OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY CENTER | $150,000 |
| LEAST OF THESE CAROLINAS INC | $150,000 |
| ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| FRANKLIN VANCE WARREN OPPORTUNITY INC | $150,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $14.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of The Cannon Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 78% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
310 repeat relationships — 120 still active in FY2025, 190 since wound down; 82 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.6M 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
- RYROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +150%
- CCCabarrus Cooperative Christian Ministry6× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +189%
- AHATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2025 · $566k · revenue +195%
Funded once
CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +96%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $250k
- TITHE INDUSTRIAL COMMONSone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
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.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.
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,…
Guided by faith, love, and respect, we provide food, shelter, and individualized supportive services for Haywood County residents.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.
To provide affordable housing for low-income individuals living in buncombe county and the surrounding areas of north carolina.
Provied temporary and emergency and low income housing and secured shelter.
To help all union county nc residents gain access to affordable housing, decent jobs, and to develop a sense of security.
To advance the general welfare of the people of eastern north carolina through programs providing housing and childcare assistance as well as poverty elimination strategies to disadvantaged populations.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Will Baptist Children's Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jericho House. 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 35 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% 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.
817 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. 817 of the 991 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds Cabarrus Cooperative Christian Ministry ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WINGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
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- Who funds GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BARTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
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- Who funds WILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY ↗
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- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEACEHAVEN FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES ↗
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- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TAR RIVER REGION INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CENTRAL NC COUNCIL #416 ↗
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- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CATAWBA VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds ACES FOR AUTISM ↗
- Who funds STANLY COUNTY FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds Catawba Lands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds OUR COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Scotland Memorial Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
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- Who funds CABARRUS MEALS ON WHEELS 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: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Mariam & Robert Hayes Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Golden Leaf Inc · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008 · Philip L Van Every Foundation · Charles a Cannon Trust No 1 · The Duke Endowment
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 The Cannon Foundation Inc 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.
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