· Private foundation
The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $216k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GASTON COUNTY FAMILY YMCA | $25,000 |
| GASTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $24,375 |
| CATHERINE'S HOUSE | $23,050 |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| DYEP | $15,000 |
| BOUNTIFUL BLESSINGS FOOD PANTRY | $15,000 |
| OFF THE STREETS PROGRAM | $15,000 |
| CLASSROOM CENTRAL | $12,500 |
| BACKPACK WEEKEND FOOD PROGRAM | $11,375 |
| DALLAS- HIGH SHOALS CHRISTIAN MINIS | $10,000 |
| GASTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART AND HI | $10,000 |
| GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| LEAST OF THESE CAROLINAS | $10,000 |
| CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GASTON COUN | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $361k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 10 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- DCDREAM CENTER ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $128k · revenue +198%
- GCGASTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $124k · revenue +222% · 81% of their budget
- CRCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +267%
Funded once
- GCGASTON COUNTY FAMILY YMCA CAPITAL CAMPAIGNone grant, 2020 · $25k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GASTON COUNTY - ARTSPACE GASTONIA FUNDone grant, 2017 · $25k
- HHHUNTER HUSS HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Organization provides emergency medical services to the town of gaston and northampton county, nc.
Organization provides firefighting and rescue services to the town of gaston and northampton county, nc
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
The ggdc is a private sector led non-profit corporation, formed in 2014 for the sole purpose of strengthening factors influencing gaston county's economic competitiveness. the organization has served as a leader, catalyst, convener, and…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To champion an environment for healthy economic growth and quality job creation in gaston county by remaining active on many fronts, including economic development, regional initiatives, membership benefits and services, quality of life,…
Gulf coast partnership, inc. (the organization) mission is to prevent homelessness in charlotte county. the organization is a department of hud lead agency on homelessness in the state of florida. the organization is funded through a…
Our mission is to inspire generosity, uplift nonprofits, and connect donors with community needs.
To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.
The purpose is to provide educational, employment and financial assistance to low income residents of gaston, cleveland, lincoln and stanly counties in north carolina.
Goodwill builds pathways that help people pursue the life they want to achieve. goodwill exists to help people see possibilities, seize opportunities, and prosper. we partner with individuals to identify their strengths, interests and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gaston Family Health Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is MedAssist of Mecklenburg Dba Nc Medassist. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 21% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 95 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 Gaston County Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GASTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF GASTON CTY INC ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OFF THE STREETS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Least of These Carolinas ↗
- Who funds CLASSROOM CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds HEART SOCIETY OF GASTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK WEEKEND FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds North Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds GASTON TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GASTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NOW OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GASTONIA POTTERS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds KEEP GASTONIA BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds GASTON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GASTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROSS CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds Bit of Hope Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds GASTON AQUATICS INC ↗
- Who funds Fields of Hope ↗
- Who funds MedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist ↗
- Who funds The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina 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: Gaston Community Foundation · The David Belk Cannon Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Gaston County Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Stowe Foundation Inc · Pearl Dixon Balthis Fdn Tua · Charles & Irene Nanney Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc
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 Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found 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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