· Private foundation
The Gardner Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $10,000 |
| HELPMATE | $10,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| BLACK MT HOME FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN & FAMILY RESOURCES | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| MANNA FOODBANK | $5,000 |
| ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LITERACY TOGETHER | $4,000 |
| MOUNTAIN CARE (DAY CARE FOR DEMENTIA) | $4,000 |
| ROOT CAUSE FARM | $3,000 |
| FOOD FOR FAIRVIEW | $3,000 |
| DOGS INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against +90% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $61k · revenue ×12- CFCHILDREN & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC5× · 2019–2023 · $58k · revenue +154%
- PIPERFORMANCE INITIATIVES INC5× · 2019–2023 · $48k · revenue +176%
Funded once
- CCChrist Community Churchone grant, 2024 · $10k
- PMPEO Mary Burnett Fundone grant, 2024 · $10k
- SBSAVANNAH BOOK FESTIVAL INCone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
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How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 43 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 HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN & FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF HENDERSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMANCE INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds HELPMATE INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FAIRVIEW INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ROOT CAUSE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Together ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE FAIRVIEW TOWN CRIER ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE SAVANNAH INC ↗
- Who funds DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gardner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gardner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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