· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $347k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $468k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Samaritans Purse | $180,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | $75,000 |
| Tenth Mountain Division Hut | $63,000 |
| Mikeroweworks Foundation | $50,000 |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | $50,000 |
| United Cajun Navy | $50,000 |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $40,000 |
| Black Mountain Home for Children | $35,000 |
| American Cancer Society | $25,000 |
| New River Conservancy | $25,000 |
| Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation | $25,000 |
| Elkin Valley Trails Association Inc | $25,000 |
| Michael J Fox Foundation | $25,000 |
| Boys Club of Wake County NC | $20,000 |
| Action Against Hunger USA | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $356k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 10 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TMTenth Mountain Division Hut Assn Inc 10th Mountain4× · 2019–2022 · $327k · revenue +34%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE3× · 2022–2025 · $313k · revenue +40%
- TMTENTH MOUNTAIN DIVISION FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2021 · $250k · revenue +14% · 46% of their budget
Funded once
- ARANCHOR RIDGEone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%
- HWHearts with Handsone grant, 2024 · $75k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To connect, lead, and advocate in communities to ensure service members, veterans, and their families thrive. see schedule o for additional information.veterans bridge home connects veterans and their families, in any state of transition,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.
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.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Amvets is a veterans service organization whose members, having served or now serving in the u.s. armed forces, are united to uphold and defend the constitution of the united states; to safeguard the principles of freedom, liberty and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds Tenth Mountain Division Hut Assn Inc 10th Mountain ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds TENTH MOUNTAIN DIVISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds ELKIN VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds United Cajun Navy ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Huts for Vets ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR RIDGE ↗
- Who funds New River Conservancy ↗
- Who funds RIVERWOOD THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds Saving Grace K9s ↗
- Who funds THE HONOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
- Who funds National 4-H Council ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN KITCHEN OF WILKES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MOUNTAINS-TO-SEA TRAIL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT ENRICHMENT SERVICES OF WILKES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN TENNIS PATRONS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTHORACARE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds The Winston-Salem Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Garrett Family Ever Forward Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.