· Public charity
United Way of Gaston County Inc
To be a community solutions leader that mobilizes the caring power of the community, to measurably address needs and improve lives by making every contribution count.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $408,011 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $692,607 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $284,596 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $289k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| B&G CLUB OF GREATER GASTON | $75,000 |
| GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL | $47,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH | $38,000 |
| CANCER SERVICES OF GASTON COUNTY | $30,000 |
| ADULT DAY CARE CENTER | $25,000 |
| OTHER GRANTS UNDER 5000 | $24,403 |
| HEART SOCIETY OF GASTON COUNTY | $22,000 |
| CHERRYVILLE AREA MINISTRIES | $18,000 |
| DALLAS CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $18,000 |
| GASTON HOSPICE INC | $17,608 |
| FLYNN FELLOWSHIP HOME | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $14,000 |
| GS CAROLINAS PEAKS TO PIEDMONT | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY RELIEF ORGANIZATION | $10,000 |
| SOCKS | $9,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $473k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER GAS9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +12%
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH COM9× · 2017–2025 · $692k · revenue +25%
- HSHEART SOCIETY OF GASTON COUNTY8× · 2017–2025 · $303k · revenue +1% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- BBBOUNTIFUL BLESSINGS FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2021 · $39k · revenue +16% · 28% of their budget
- GUGRANTS UNDER 5000one grant, 2023 · $27k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $12k
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.
To be a community solutions leader that mobilizes the caring power of the community, to measurably address needs and improve lives by making every contribution count.
The mission is to provide hope and assistance to people in crisis within the community of gaston county by leading a cooperative effort of churches government and businesses to create a communinity that loves your neighbor as yourself.
Gaston Innnovation Group, Inc., dba TechWorks Gaston, was formed for the purpose of improving the socio-economic conditions for citizens of Gaston County, North Carolina, by stimulating job growth through digital inclusion, small business…
Assist individuals with mental and physical disabilities and their families by offering high quality services with guidance, support and involvement by providing resources to promote their integration into the community through counseling,…
The united way of coastal carolina, inc. strives to meet the current and emerging human needs in craven, carteret, jones, and pamlico counties by mobilizing the resources of community organizations, agencies, recipients, and volunteers.
The mission of union county crisis assistance ministry is to help families with an urgent financial emergency to meet essential needs and to, once again, become self-sufficient. the primary objective of the crisis intervention program is…
Create and maintain a food procurement and distribution network that provides nurishing food by maximizing relationships with major food distributors and producers. galveston county food bank effectively distributes nutritious food to…
The purpose is to provide educational, employment and financial assistance to low income residents of gaston, cleveland, lincoln and stanly counties in north carolina.
The ggdc is a private sector led non-profit corporation, formed in 2014 for the sole purpose of strengthening factors influencing gaston county's economic competitiveness. the organization has served as a leader, catalyst, convener, and…
Goodwill builds pathways that help people pursue the life they want to achieve. goodwill exists to help people see possibilities, seize opportunities, and prosper. we partner with individuals to identify their strengths, interests and…
Gulf coast partnership, inc. (the organization) mission is to prevent homelessness in charlotte county. the organization is a department of hud lead agency on homelessness in the state of florida. the organization is funded through a…
Mobilizing the power of our community to break the cycle of poverty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise of Gaston County and the most unlike its peers is Bessemer City Crisis Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 43 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER GAS ↗
- Who funds GASTON LITERACY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH COM ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES OF GASTON CTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF GASTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HEART SOCIETY OF GASTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DALLAS-HIGH SHOALS CHRISTIAN SOCIAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 420 ↗
- Who funds BESSEMER CITY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF GASTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Serving Our Community With Kindness In Springwood ↗
- Who funds Community Relief Organization of Mt Holly NC ↗
- Who funds THE FLYNN FELLOWSHIP HOME OF GASTONIA INC ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY PENALTIES ↗
- Who funds Gaston County Family YMCA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds BOUNTIFUL BLESSINGS FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Cleveland County Inc ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK WEEKEND FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE YOUTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Gaston County Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLY ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds Least of These Carolinas ↗
- Who funds GASTON SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE'S HOUSE ↗
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: Gaston Community Foundation · The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Found · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Associated Foundation Incorporated · Stephen L Cornwell Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 United Way of Gaston County Inc 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.