· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $345k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+7 grants · $4.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Gaston Community Foundation | $1,500,000 |
| Gaston Day School | $892,000 |
| Gaston Community Foundation | $543,600 |
| The Conservation Fund | $500,000 |
| Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden | $300,000 |
| Christ Church Charlotte | $250,000 |
| Covenant Village | $250,000 |
| Gaston County Family YMCA | $200,000 |
| Saint Mary's School | $166,666 |
| Schiele Museum of Natural History | $150,000 |
| Year Up | $150,000 |
| Woodberry Forest School | $125,000 |
| Community Foundation of Western NC | $125,000 |
| Kintegra Health | $125,000 |
| Christ School | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of The David Belk Cannon Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 8 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $858k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Davidson College4× · 2018–2023 · $4.3M · revenue +52%- PCPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE4× · 2017–2021 · $2.7M · revenue +9%
- WFWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +47%
Funded once
- TMTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +37%
- GMGASTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $833k · revenue +98% · 41% of their budget
- TJThe Joe Martin ALS Foundationone grant, 2020 · $252k · revenue -18% · 39% of their budget
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.
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.
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…
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.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
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…
Provide a distinctly Christ-centered, biblical and classical education producing students who glorify God in their thoughts, words and deeds.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
To operate a private school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in Wilmington, NC
Catawba college is committed to providing students an education rich in personal attention that blends the knowledge and competencies of liberal studies with career preparation. catawba college draws strength from judeo-christian values,…
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
How this is measured
92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 92 of the 140 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds GASTON DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MCCALLIE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GASTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GASTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Gaston County Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds Life Enrichment Center of Cleveland County Inc ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL ↗
- Who funds CHRIST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GASTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Catawba Lands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds SCHIELE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds COVENANT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER GAS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF AIKEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Joe Martin ALS Foundation ↗
- Who funds GASTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
- Who funds PAVILLON INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The David Belk Cannon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David Belk Cannon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Tall Timbers Research Inc: 10% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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