North Carolina · Private foundation
The Gambrell 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.
- $5.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $120,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $800,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 38
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $173M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations The Gambrell 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; $385k 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 | 26 | $4.7M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $4.3M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $8.4M | 45% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $10M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $6.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queens University of Charlotte | $6,000,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation | $3,100,000 | 5 | 20% |
| Young Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc | $2,085,000 | 4 | 22% |
| Central Piedmont Community College Foundation Inc | $1,460,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc | $1,377,170 | 5 | 5% |
| Charmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Alliance | $1,000,000 | 2 | 9% |
| American Institute for Boys and Men | $1,000,000 | 2 | 27% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Charlotte | $950,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Lakewood Neighborhood Alliance Inc DBA as Lakeview Neighborhood Alliance | $911,040 | 3 | 63% |
| Cms Foundation | $718,898 | 4 | 22% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Gambrell Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 54 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Leon Levine Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · Duke Energy Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · Albemarle Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Dickson Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Gambrell Foundation
- How much does The Gambrell Foundation give?
- The Gambrell Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $5,229,559 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Gambrell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Religion (15%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are The Gambrell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Queens University of Charlotte ($6.0M), Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation ($3.1M), Young Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc ($2.1M).
- Does The Gambrell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gambrell 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 Gambrell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, The Leon Levine Foundation, United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc.
- Where is The Gambrell Foundation based?
- The Gambrell Foundation is based in NC.
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