· Private foundation
The Stowe Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $209k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DANIEL STOWE BOTANICAL GARDENS | $157,000 |
| FIRST AR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $51,500 |
| PUT TOOLS IN SCHOOLS INC | $20,000 |
| HOLY ANGLES INC | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER GASTO | $3,000 |
| CANCER SERVICES OF GASTON COUNTY IN | $3,000 |
| BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| DAHLIA GROVE | $2,500 |
| BACK CREEK CHURCH | $2,500 |
| STAND FOR ANIMALS | $1,760 |
| GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL | $1,750 |
| BELMONT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION | $1,500 |
| BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME | $1,500 |
| CHARLOTTE FILM SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% 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.
37 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BWBACKPACK WEEKEND FOOD PROGRAM INC5× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +40%
- CRCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +267%
- BABELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- GCGASTON COUNTY SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $1.3M
- WFWARLICK FAMILY YMCAone grant, 2018 · $150k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GASTON COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $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.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
The charlotte regional realtor (r) association (crra) is a trade association serving members in mecklenburg, iredell and haywood counties. at december 31, 2024, crra had 14,020 members.
Collaborate to promote and advance the charlotte region, creating opportunity, economic growth and prosperity for all.
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 assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
Public/private collaborative to plant trees, raise awareness of the canopy, and educate about tree care.
How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 81 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 CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL ↗
- Who funds GASTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK WEEKEND FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF GASTON CTY INC ↗
- Who funds World Affairs Council of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds McColl Center for Art Innovation ↗
- Who funds CAROMONT HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds BELMONT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds USO OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Leroy Springs & Company Inc ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Master Chorale ↗
- Who funds Catawba Lands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds The Little Theatre of Charlotte Inc dba Theatre Charlotte ↗
- Who funds SEVEN OAKS FARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Spay Neuter Charlotte ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER GAS ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MECKLENBURG COUNTY COUNCIL ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Gaston Community Foundation · The David Belk Cannon Foundation · The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found · Albemarle Foundation · Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc · The Howe Foundation Inc · Associated Foundation Incorporated · The Presbyterian Hospital · Arts & Science Council Charlotte/Mecklenburg Inc · Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Stowe Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stowe Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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