North Carolina · Nonprofit
GRANDFATHER HOME FOR CHILDREN INC
GRANDFATHER HOME FOR CHILDREN INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,755,385 to it, the largest being JOSEPH F CANNON CHRISTMAS TUW ($808,569). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Grandfather Home for Children Inc does
Mission
To provide a safe, healing journey for hurting children and families - creating hope now and in the future.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Grandfather home for children (gfhc is one of two historical founding entities of the children's hope alliance (cha) family of nonprofits. Founded in 1914 in banner elk, nc, it originally operated a residential children's home serving orphaned children of the appalachian region. In 2011, gfhc merged with barium springs home for children, to form cha- together representing a combined 250-year legacy of service to at-risk children in nc. Today, gfhc is maintained as a separate legal entity to fund direct services to children across the consolidated organization through perpetual charitable trust income established by historic donors. As a type ii supporting organization under 509(a)(3), gfhc has no employees and conducts no direct programs. Investment income is distributed annually to its support organizations. During fy2025, gfhc distributed 1,043,546 in trust income as follows: "children's hope alliance: 260,000 "barium springs home for children: 200,000 "children's hope alliance foundation: 555,546 "properties for children: 28,000
$1,043,546 spentof which $1,043,546 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,043,546.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $18M to $14M (−23%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
17% of GRANDFATHER HOME FOR CHILDREN INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Celeste Dominguez
CEO
Board chair
Laura Skinner
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $277k → $426k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.9M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Children's Hope Alliance Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money GRANDFATHER HOME FOR CHILDREN INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GRANDFATHER HOME FOR CHILDREN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GRANDFATHER HOME FOR CHILDREN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GRANDFATHER HOME FOR CHILDREN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 50% · 2019 56% · 2020 35% · 2021 34% · 2022 35% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
43% of GRANDFATHER HOME FOR CHILDREN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
GRANDFATHER HOME FOR CHILDREN INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $976k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
GRANDFATHER HOME FOR CHILDREN INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GRANDFATHER HOME FOR CHILDREN INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Children's Hope Alliance · exempt
- Children's Hope Alliance Foundation · exempt
- Properties for Children · exempt
- Barium Springs Home for Children · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GRANDFATHER HOME FOR CHILDREN INC?
- GRANDFATHER HOME FOR CHILDREN INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,755,385 to it, the largest being JOSEPH F CANNON CHRISTMAS TUW ($808,569). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRANDFATHER HOME FOR CHILDREN INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,755,385 in grants to GRANDFATHER HOME FOR CHILDREN INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRANDFATHER HOME FOR CHILDREN INC?
- JOSEPH F CANNON CHRISTMAS TUW is the largest funder on record, with $808,569 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRANDFATHER HOME FOR CHILDREN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing