North Carolina · Private foundation
The Garrett Family Ever Forward 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.
- $848k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 70%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $180,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 27
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 70% of the organizations The Garrett Family Ever Forward Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $708k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $848k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $1.0M | 70% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $197k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $615k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $160k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $148k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tenth Mountain Division Hut Assn Inc 10th Mountain | $327,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $313,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Tenth Mountain Division Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 46% |
| Black Mountain Home for Children Youth and Families Inc | $177,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Elkin Valley Trails Association | $160,000 | 3 | 40% |
| Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation | $157,000 | 5 | 2% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| United Cajun Navy | $125,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Huts for Vets | $85,000 | 4 | 19% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($236k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Garrett Family Ever Forward Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 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: Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Stone Foundation · Hillsdale Fund · Chatham Foundation Inc · The Leonard G Herring Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Garrett Family Ever Forward Foundation with peer funders
About The Garrett Family Ever Forward Foundation
- How much does The Garrett Family Ever Forward Foundation give?
- The Garrett Family Ever Forward Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $848,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 27 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Garrett Family Ever Forward Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (33%), Human Services (13%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are The Garrett Family Ever Forward Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Tenth Mountain Division Hut Assn Inc 10th Mountain ($327k), Samaritan's Purse ($313k), Tenth Mountain Division Foundation Inc ($250k).
- Does The Garrett Family Ever Forward Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 70% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Garrett Family Ever Forward 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 Garrett Family Ever Forward Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, North Carolina Community Foundation, Triangle Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Garrett Family Ever Forward Foundation based?
- The Garrett Family Ever Forward Foundation is based in NC.
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