North Carolina · Private foundation
A E Finley Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 70
- Grants FY2025
- 68
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $347,175
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 68
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $30M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations A E Finley Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 67 | $1.5M | 34% |
| FY2024 | 68 | $1.3M | 37% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $1.2M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $1.2M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $1.4M | 45% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ravenscroft School | $1,800,430 | 6 | 1% |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) | $802,265 | 6 | 1% |
| Duke University | $469,280 | 6 | 0% |
| Hargrave Military Academy | $449,280 | 6 | 1% |
| William Peace University | $309,670 | 5 | 0% |
| Unc Health Foundation Inc | $242,955 | 4 | 0% |
| The Educational Foundation Inc | $233,635 | 2 | 0% |
| The Rex Healthcare Foundation Inc | $126,945 | 2 | 3% |
| Wake Forest University | $115,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Alliance Medical Ministry Inc | $72,500 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 109 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget A E Finley Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · Bell Cook Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Duke University Health System Inc · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio · Lochbaum Family Charitable Trust · Maynard Family Foundation
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to A E Finley Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to A E Finley Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About A E Finley Foundation Inc
- How much does A E Finley Foundation Inc give?
- A E Finley Foundation Inc reported 70 grants totaling $1,475,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 68 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does A E Finley Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Recreation & Sports (17%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are A E Finley Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Ravenscroft School ($1.8M), The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ($802k), Duke University ($469k).
- Does A E Finley Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does A E Finley Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as A E Finley Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation, North Carolina Community Foundation.
- Where is A E Finley Foundation Inc based?
- A E Finley Foundation Inc is based in NC.
Play a game based on A E Finley’s filings →