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The Robert & Sherry Guth Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% 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
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $73k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$27,500
THE RPM FOUNDATION$25,000
POWER CROSS$20,000
OLD SAINT LUKE'S CHURCH$5,000
FIRST CHURCH FORT PIERCE$5,000
THE CHRISTIAN MISSION$3,120
Individual grant recipient$2,500
STEWART SIMMONS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT$2,000
NY RACE RUNNERS TEAM FOR KIDS$530
KINDNESS CLOSET$515
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHRISTIAN MISSION INC: $10k → 9%CHRISTIAN MISSION INC: $5k → 9%THE CHRISTIAN MISSION: $3k → 9%KINDNESS CLOSET: $6k → 9%KINDNESS CLOSET: $515 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
NC
SC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$327k · 18 repeat orgs$197k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
35

Total granted

$327k
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+7%

Still filing today

50%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthReligionHuman ServicesEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Davidson College
    2× · 2023–2025 · $40k · revenue +46%
  • LI
    LaunchLKN Inc
    2× · 2018–2021 · $35k · revenue +168% · 33% of their budget
  • MA
    Mooresville Area Christian Mission Inc
    3× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +164%

Funded once

  • ZF
    ZEKENETIC FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • LL
    LAUNCH LKN DAVIDSON TECH HUB
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
2
Disability Rights North Carolina

Disability rights north carolina is a legal advocacy organization that advances and defends the rights of people with all types of disabilities, of all ages, throughout north carolina.

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3
Carolina Small Business Development Fund

Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.

Public Benefit
4
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
5
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
6
Search for Change Inc

Dedicated to improving the quality of life and increasing the self sufficiency of individuals with emotional, social and economic barriers. this is accomplished by providing direct support and assistance needed to enable individuals to…

Human Services
7
Servant Foundation

The Signatry advances the Christian faith by carrying out its mission, "to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity across generations to solve the world's greatest problems," through financial and other support of I.R.C.…

Religion
8
Sc Launch Inc

Fuel south carolina's innovation economy by accelerating technology-enabled growth in research, academia, entrepreneurship and industry.

Community Improvement
9
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
10
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
11
Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy Dba Cure Sma

Our mission is to drive research for treatments and a cure for sma, and to support and empower everyone impacted by sma today.

Health
12
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 60 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST THERESE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $43,140 · OtherST THERESE CATHOLIC CHURCHZEKENETIC FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherZEKENETIC FOUNDATION INCLAUNCH LKN DAVIDSON TECH HUB: $25,000 · OtherLAUNCH LKN DAVIDSON TECH HUBCHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC: $11,000 · OtherCHARITYBUZZ MUSICIAN'S FUND: $10,500 · OtherTHE BRAIN TUMOUR CHARITY: $10,000 · OtherHILTON HEAD CONCOURSE CHARITABLE FD: $10,000 · Other+37 more: $90,130 · Other+37 moreDavidson College: $40,000 · EducationDavidson Co…SPECIAL EDUCATION LEGAL FUND INC: $9,500 · EducationSPECIAL EDU…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $3,500 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD…+2 more: $1,200 · EducationMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $49,500 · HealthMUSCULAR DY…ABILIS INC: $3,684 · HealthABILIS INC+2 more: $1,000 · HealthLaunchLKN Inc: $35,000 · EmploymentPOWER CROSS: $20,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $15,000 · ReligionRPM FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMooresville Area Christian Mission Inc: $18,120 · Human ServicesTHE KINDNESS CLOSET INC: $6,015 · Human Services
Other$299,770Education$54,200Health$54,184Employment$35,000Religion$35,000Arts & Culture$25,000Human Services$24,135

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $3,500 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 budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Davidson College ↗
  • Who funds LaunchLKN Inc ↗
  • Who funds RPM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds POWER CROSS ↗
  • Who funds Mooresville Area Christian Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL EDUCATION LEGAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Echo Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE KINDNESS CLOSET INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds ABILIS INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Stewart Simmons Volunteer Fire Dept ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 Ca…United Way of Iredell…The Dale Jr FoundationTruist Foundation IncDuke Energy FoundationThe Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Robert & Sherry Guth Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert & Sherry Guth Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 74%
  • Abilis Inc: 74% of income from government
  • Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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