THE GLENN FOUNDATION

Our mission is to perpetuate the legacy of the Glenn sisters by providing resources where they are most needed to do the most good for the greater Gaston community... On August 30, 1971, the sisters established The Carrie E. and Lena V. Glenn Foundation as an indentured trust with an initial contribution of $25,000. At their deaths, their combined estates of almost $3 million were added to the trust. On July 1, 2005, the Foundation changed its legal structure from a trust to a nonprofit corporation. Since 1972, the Glenn Foundation has granted $9.561 million to 261 unduplicated organizations for 1037 different programs and services. Foundation assets today are approximately $6.7 million... Born in the 1880's, Carrie Eugenia Glenn and Lena Viola Glenn were two of ten children who grew up on a farm in the Crowders Creek section of Gaston County, North Carolina. The family valued education, hard work, and self-reliance, producing a college professor, a prominent Gastonia surgeon, a..

Primary location: Gastonia United States