How much does The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found give?

The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found reported 23 grants totaling $246,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Education (19%), Health (12%).

Who are The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gaston County Family YMCA ($173k), Dream Center Academy ($128k), Gaston County Education Foundation Inc ($124k).

Does The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gaston Community Foundation, The David Belk Cannon Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation.

Where is The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found based?

The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found is based in NC.

The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found

The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found at a glance

· Private foundation

The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$246k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$660kEducation$448kHealth$280kHousing & Shelter$192kFood & Nutrition$167kArts & Culture$134kEnvironment$102kYouth Development$84kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $30k
$10k–50k15 grants · $216k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GASTON COUNTY FAMILY YMCA	$25,000
GASTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$24,375
CATHERINE'S HOUSE	$23,050
DYEP	$15,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM	$15,000
BOUNTIFUL BLESSINGS FOOD PANTRY	$15,000
OFF THE STREETS PROGRAM	$15,000
CLASSROOM CENTRAL	$12,500
BACKPACK WEEKEND FOOD PROGRAM	$11,375
GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL	$10,000
DALLAS- HIGH SHOALS CHRISTIAN MINIS	$10,000
LEAST OF THESE CAROLINAS	$10,000
CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES	$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GASTON COUN	$10,000
GASTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART AND HI	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 45 repeat orgs$448k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$368k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+32%

Still filing today

78%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

DC
DREAM CENTER ACADEMY
8× · 2017–2024 · $128k · revenue +198%
GC
GASTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2023–2025 · $124k · revenue +222% · 81% of their budget
CR
CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +267%

Funded once

CF
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GASTON COUNTY - ARTSPACE GASTONIA FUND
one grant, 2017 · $25k
GC
GASTON COUNTY FAMILY YMCA CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
one grant, 2020 · $25k
GA
GASTON AQUATICS INC
one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Hospice of Gaston County Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

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Gaston Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc

Organization provides emergency medical services to the town of gaston and northampton county, nc.

Health

Gaston Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Organization provides firefighting and rescue services to the town of gaston and northampton county, nc

Public Safety & Disaster

Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health

Greater Gaston Development Corporat

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…

—

Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health

Gaston Business Association Inc

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

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…

Housing & Shelter

Gaston Community Foundation

Our mission is to inspire generosity, uplift nonprofits, and connect donors with community needs.

Philanthropy

Greater Winston-Salem Development Corp

To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.

Community Improvement

Gaston Community Action Inc

The purpose is to provide educational, employment and financial assistance to low income residents of gaston, cleveland, lincoln and stanly counties in north carolina.

Human Services

Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont Inc

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…

Employment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gaston Family Health Services Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

58/60

Grantees still filing

40/60

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,507,755Human Services$442,620Education$128,500Environment$117,500Health$87,000Arts & Culture$62,550Food & Nutrition$61,875

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Gaston Community FoundationNC87.3× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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