North Carolina · Private foundation
The David Belk Cannon Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $6.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2024
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $55,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 44
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $133M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations The David Belk Cannon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $331k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 36 | $4.0M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $3.8M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $3.8M | 34% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $4.6M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 44 | $5.7M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $4.1M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $5.9M | 57% |
| FY2017 | 40 | $4.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Davidson College | $4,250,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Gaston Day School Inc | $3,368,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Presbyterian College | $2,700,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Woodberry Forest School | $2,507,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Saint Marys School | $2,501,501 | 6 | 3% |
| The McCallie School | $1,000,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Gaston College Foundation | $999,999 | 3 | 26% |
| Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc | $833,333 | 1 | 41% |
| Gaston County Family YMCA | $769,800 | 7 | 4% |
| Life Enrichment Center of Cleveland County Inc | $750,000 | 3 | 11% |
Show all 101 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The David Belk Cannon Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 82 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Gaston Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found · Duke Energy Foundation · Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Stowe Foundation Inc · Dowd Foundation Inc · Pearl Dixon Balthis Fdn Tua · Ralph S Robinson Family Foundation · The Howe Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The David Belk Cannon Foundation
- How much does The David Belk Cannon Foundation give?
- The David Belk Cannon Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $6,156,099 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The David Belk Cannon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (45%), Philanthropy (24%), Health (10%).
- Who are The David Belk Cannon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Davidson College ($4.3M), Gaston Day School Inc ($3.4M), Presbyterian College ($2.7M).
- Does The David Belk Cannon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The David Belk Cannon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The David Belk Cannon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gaston Community Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas, The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found.
- Where is The David Belk Cannon Foundation based?
- The David Belk Cannon Foundation is based in NC.
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