· Community foundation
Gaston Community Foundation
Our mission is to inspire generosity, uplift nonprofits, and connect donors with community needs.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k38 grants · $270k
- $10k–50k92 grants · $2.0M
- $50k–250k31 grants · $3.3M
- $250k+7 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GASTON CO FAMILY YMCA | $1,732,500 |
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $679,624 |
| NC PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION | $677,124 |
| CAROMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $565,200 |
| OTHER UNDER 5000 | $514,594 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST OF GASTONIA | $330,089 |
| CATAWBA LANDS CONSERVANCY | $317,417 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF GASTON | $248,600 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GASTONIA | $219,225 |
| GASTON DAY SCHOOL | $187,485 |
| NCF SUPPORTING ORGANIZATION | $175,000 |
| DANIEL STOWE BOTANICAL GARDEN | $153,020 |
| PIEDMONT COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMER | $143,800 |
| GASTON AQUATICS INC | $143,671 |
| DREAM CENTER ACADEMY | $137,088 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
219 repeat relationships — 134 still active in FY2024, 85 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER GAS7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +12%
- GCGASTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $883k · revenue +184%
- DJDaniel Jonathan Stowe Conservancy Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $844k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $256k
- BGBILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $251k
- PFProject Freedom Carolinas Incone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -95%
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.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Gordon college strives to graduate men & women distinguished by (continued on schedule o) (continuation) intellectual maturity and christian character, committed to lives of service and prepared for leadership worldwide.
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
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…
To recruit new businesses to winston-salem and forsyth county in order to facilitate growth and economic diversification in the area.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
The purpose of the corporation is to engage in charitable efforts and to support granville health system in providing healthcare and related services to the citizens and residents of granville county and the surrounding community.
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,…
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Justfaith Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Interlaken Wildlife Foundation. 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 33 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
218 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. 218 of the 366 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.
- Who funds Gaston County Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER GAS ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Gaston County Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER ST LOUIS BOY SCOUT TRUST FUND ↗
- Who funds GASTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Daniel Jonathan Stowe Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GASTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SCHIELE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds GASTON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GASTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GASTON AQUATICS INC ↗
- Who funds Catawba Lands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds GASTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK WEEKEND FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS CAROLINAS PEAKS TO PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Least of These Carolinas ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEAGUE OF GASTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER OF GASTON C ↗
- Who funds GASTON TOGETHER COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds GASTONIA POTTERS HOUSE 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: The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found · The David Belk Cannon Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Gaston County Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Stowe Foundation Inc · Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Associated Foundation Incorporated · The Howe Foundation Inc · Albemarle Foundation
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 Gaston Community Foundation 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.
- Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
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.