· Private foundation
The Hurley-Trammell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
96% of The Hurley-Trammell Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Foundation For The Carolinas, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Hurley-Trammell Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $83k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATAWBA COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| WINTHROP UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES | $11,000 |
| POPS AT THE POST | $10,000 |
| ROWAN LITTLE LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| ROWAN COUNTY UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| HOLLINS UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF ROWAN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HISTORIC SALISBURY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ROWAN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $500 |
| FAMILY CRISIS COUNCIL | $250 |
| FAITHFUL FRIENDS | $200 |
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, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCATAWBA COLLEGE7× · 2018–2025 · $513k · revenue +383%
- RCROWAN COUNTY UNITED WAY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +9%
- RHROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- RSROWAN-SALISBURY SCHOOL SYSTEMone grant, 2017 · $79k
- TYTHE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROWAN COUNTY NC INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -2%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Promote the industrial, commercial, agricultural, economic, civic and social welfare of the people of salisbury and rowan county north carolina
Promoting economic and industrial development in rowan county, north carolina
Salisbury-rowan community action agency is committed to providing education, child care, and other services to the underprivileged residents of salisbury, north carolina and two surrounding counties.
Operation of a public charter school
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
North carolina wesleyan university, a private institution affiliated with the united methodist church, prepares students for professional advancement, life-long learning, and responsible participation in their communities.
The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina
Provide prevention & intervention services targeting at-risk youth in rowan county
Operation of a north carolina public charter school
To cultivate, inspire, and transform our students in a nurturing, yet challenging, educational environment to become the managers and leaders organizations need right now.
Roanoke College develops students as whole persons and prepares them for responsible lives of learning, service, and leadership by promoting their intellectual, ethical, spiritual and personal growth.
To maintain and enhance the quality of life, including economic development, in roane state's service area by developing friends and raising funds for the support of educational, cultural and service goals of roane state community college.…
How this is measured
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 68 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 FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BELL TOWER GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN COUNTY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds POPS AT THE POST INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ROWAN COUNTY NC INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER GUARDIANS INC ↗
- Who funds PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Winthrop University Foundation ↗
- Who funds RUFTY-HOLMES SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF ROWAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TERRIE HESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC SALISBURY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROWAN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds Livingstone College ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOOD THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ROWAN COUNTY ↗
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: Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Wilson L Smith Family Foundation the Smith Foundation · The Wallace Family Foundation Inc · Rowan Regional Medical Center Inc · Ketner Foundation Inc · Joe L & Hester Sims Family Foundation · The Bernheim Foundation Inc · The Goodman Foundation Inc · Brady Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hurley-Trammell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hurley-Trammell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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