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The Robert & Sherry Guth Charitable 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.

$91k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$27,500
Organizations funded a year
8 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$2.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations The Robert & Sherry Guth Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesReligionCivil RightsInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$91k50%
FY202415$74k67%
FY202313$97k62%
FY202212$33k50%
FY202111$57k64%
FY20208$42k63%
FY20199$73k78%
FY201810$56kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$87kHealth$69kEducation$61kHuman Services$54kArts & Culture$41kCommunity Improvement$38kScience & Tech$25kPhilanthropy$19kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
NC
SC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc$49,50060%
Davidson College$40,00020%
LaunchLKN Inc$35,000233%
Zekenetic Foundation Inc$25,0001n/a
Rpm Foundation$25,0001n/a
Power Cross$20,0001n/a
Mooresville Area Christian Mission Inc$18,12030%
Samaritan's Purse$15,00010%
Church of the Good Shepherd Inc$11,0003n/a
Special Education Legal Fund Inc$9,50022%
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All grantees of The Robert & Sherry Guth Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc$49,50060%
Davidson College$40,00020%
LaunchLKN Inc$35,000233%
Zekenetic Foundation Inc$25,0001n/a
Rpm Foundation$25,0001n/a
Power Cross$20,0001n/a
Mooresville Area Christian Mission Inc$18,12030%
Samaritan's Purse$15,00010%
Church of the Good Shepherd Inc$11,0003n/a
Special Education Legal Fund Inc$9,50022%
Echo Foundation$6,15022%
The Kindness Closet Inc$6,01522%
Feed My Starving Children Inc$5,11010%
Abilis Inc$3,68410%
Stewart Simmons Volunteer Fire Dept$3,05020%
Hope House Foundation$2,50010%
Sandhills Community College Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Sunninghill Jill Kids$1,5001n/a
New York Road Runners Inc$1,50030%
A Better Chance Inc$1,08010%
Put on the Brakes Inc$1,00010%
Angels & Sparrows Soup Kitchen Inc$1,00010%
HealthReach Community Clinic$50010%
Christopher Reeve Foundation$50010%
The Piston Foundation Inc$20010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($239k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Robert & Sherry Guth Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMuscular Dystrophy Association Inc: $49,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLaunchLKN Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetMooresville Area Christian Mission Inc: $18,120 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Education Legal Fund Inc: $9,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetEcho Foundation: $6,150 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetThe Kindness Closet Inc: $6,015 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $5,110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAbilis Inc: $3,684 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStewart Simmons Volunteer Fire Dept: $3,050 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHope House Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSandhills Community College Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Road Runners Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA Better Chance Inc: $1,080 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPut on the Brakes Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAngels & Sparrows Soup Kitchen Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHealthReach Community Clinic: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristopher Reeve Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Piston Foundation Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Iredell County Inc · The Dale Jr Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Robert & Sherry Guth Charitable Foundation

How much does The Robert & Sherry Guth Charitable Foundation give?
The Robert & Sherry Guth Charitable Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $91,165 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Robert & Sherry Guth Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (16%), Health (13%), Education (12%).
Who are The Robert & Sherry Guth Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc ($50k), Davidson College ($40k), LaunchLKN Inc ($35k).
Does The Robert & Sherry Guth Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Robert & Sherry Guth Charitable 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 Robert & Sherry Guth Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, United Way of Iredell County Inc, The Dale Jr Foundation.
Where is The Robert & Sherry Guth Charitable Foundation based?
The Robert & Sherry Guth Charitable Foundation is based in NC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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