Hospice Cleveland County Foundation
Shelby, NC · EIN 85-0575028. Reported 69 grants totalling $3,007,656 to 44 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Hospice Cleveland County Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 44 distinct organizations, with 16% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 55% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,860 and the largest $330,715. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
2 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $14,124 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospice of Cleveland County Inc | Shelby, NC | $479,397 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hospice of Cleveland County | Shelby, NC | $330,715 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cleveland County Schools Educational Foundation Inc | Shelby, NC | $262,172 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Life Enrichment Center of Cleveland County Inc | Shelby, NC | $252,773 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Cleveland County Inc | Shelby, NC | $220,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Washington Outreach Ministry | Waco, NC | $182,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Inter-Faith Alliance Corporation | Shelby, NC | $125,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Communities in Schools of Cleveland County Inc | Shelby, NC | $104,720 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Shelby, NC | $82,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cleveland Community College Foundation Inc | Shelby, NC | $81,852 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hoppers Chapel Outreach Ministry Incorporated | Shelby, NC | $70,230 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Feeding Kids Cleveland County | Shelby, NC | $66,581 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Changers Community Development Corporation | Shelby, NC | $64,895 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mt Calvary Baptist Church of Shelby Inc | Shelby, NC | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Gastonia, NC | $54,325 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cleveland County Public Healt | Shelby, NC | $52,772 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Destination Cleveland County Inc | Shelby, NC | $45,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Community Math Academy Inc | Shelby, NC | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cleveland Community Cares | Shelby, NC | $31,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity in Cleve | Shelby, NC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mount Olive Baptist Church | Kings Mountain, NC | $27,446 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Baptist State Convention of North Carolina Inc | Cary, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Clevelan | Shelby, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kings Mountain Rotary Foundation Inc | Kings Mtn, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trailhead Limited | Shelby, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of the Cleveland County Memorial Library Inc | Shelby, NC | $20,324 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Math Academy Inc | Shelby, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Junior Charity League of Shelby Inc | Shelby, NC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Washington Outreach Ministry | Waco, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Shelby Rotary Breakfast Club | Shelby, NC | $17,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Paul & Marion Ramseur Foundation | Kingstown, NC | $17,033 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mental Health Association | Shelby, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| United Way of Cleveland County Inc | Shelby, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Childrens Home of Cleveland County Inc | Shelby, NC | $12,111 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Clev Co Bus Development Center | Shelby, NC | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc | Shelby, NC | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Mental Health Association of Cleveland County Inc | Shelby, NC | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| All Hands Ministry Corporatio | Shelby, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Destinaion Cleveland County | Shelby, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Green Bethel Baptist Church | Boiling Springs, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ross Grove Baptist Church | Shelby, NC | $7,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jamerson Technology Electrical Training Center | Shelby, NC | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kingston Community Organization for Community Concerns Inc | Kingstown, NC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Paul & Marion Ramseur Foundat | Kingstown, NC | $5,860 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
15 of 44 (34%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Hospice of Cleveland County
Cleveland County Heart Failure Prog - Washington Outreach Ministry
Emergency Food Pantry Feeding Progr - Cleveland County Schools Edu
Employeee Retention Program - Boys & Girls Club of Clevelan
Boys & Girls Club Operations - Inter-Faith Alliance Inc Dba
Cleveland County Rescue Mission Eme - Destination Cleveland County
Music History Education Project
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 24 of 44 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8 | $503,487 | $22,500 |
| 2022 | 20 | $766,284 | $26,223 |
| 2023 | 19 | $870,670 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 22 | $867,215 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Hospice Cleveland County Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 22 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 212 South Washington Street, Shelby, NC, 28150.
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