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Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation

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.

$57k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
34
Grants FY2025
32
Organizations funded FY2024
3%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
31 to 37
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$585k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving34$57k15%
FY202432$50k3%
FY202333$55k9%
FY202232$52k13%
FY202131$55k16%
FY202034$57k9%
FY201937$50k51%
FY201834$50k18%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$212kHealth$54kHuman Services$49kArts & Culture$43kFood & Nutrition$33kAnimals$23kEducation$21kEnvironment$18kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
KY
VA
TN
NC
SC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Brookgreen Gardens$19,25590%
Humane Society of Charlotte Inc$12,00070%
Nourish Up$11,00090%
Rowan Helping Ministries$10,95090%
Charlotte Rescue Mission$10,00090%
Special Olympics North Carolina Inc$9,00090%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$9,00090%
Hospitality House of Charlotte$9,00090%
Heart Math Tutoring Inc$8,50090%
South Carolina Aquarium$8,50090%
Go Jen Go Foundation Inc$8,00081%
Triumph Services Inc$8,00080%
Wing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary$8,00070%
Crisis Assistance Ministry$7,00070%
St Johns Episcopal Church$6,0006n/a
Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation Inc$5,50070%
Pawleys Island Community Church$4,6002n/a
Friendship Trays Inc$4,00040%
Holy Angels Inc$4,00040%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc$2,00020%
Mens Shelter of Charlotte Inc$2,00020%
The Shepherds Center of Charlotte$2,00020%
Litchfield Beautification Foundation$1,50030%
Camp Luck Inc$1,20010%
Xenos Christian Fellowship Inc$1,0001n/a
Carolina Thread Trail$1,0001n/a
Southminster Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Catawba Lands Conservancy$1,00010%
Rowan County Rescue Squad Inc$1,00010%
Wesleyan College$90090%
Central United Methodist Church$6002n/a
Central United Methodist Church$5001n/a
Presbyterian Church USA$5001n/a
NAMI National$20020%
Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter$1001n/a
Hospice of the Piedmont Inc$10010%
Covenant Village Inc$10010%
Kids Wish Network Inc$2510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($295k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBrookgreen Gardens: $19,255 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Charlotte Inc: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNourish Up: $11,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRowan Helping Ministries: $10,950 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCharlotte Rescue Mission: $10,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics North Carolina Inc: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHospitality House of Charlotte: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHeart Math Tutoring Inc: $8,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Carolina Aquarium: $8,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGo Jen Go Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTriumph Services Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary: $8,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCatawba Riverkeeper Foundation Inc: $5,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFriendship Trays Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHoly Angels Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMens Shelter of Charlotte Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shepherds Center of Charlotte: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLitchfield Beautification Foundation: $1,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCamp Luck Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCatawba Lands Conservancy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRowan County Rescue Squad Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWesleyan College: $900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Piedmont Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant Village Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKids Wish Network Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC33.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Dowd Foundation Inc · Albemarle Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Stowe Foundation Inc · The David Belk Cannon Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · Gaston Community Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation

How much does Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation give?
Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $57,325 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (45%), Health (11%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Brookgreen Gardens ($19k), Humane Society of Charlotte Inc ($12k), Nourish Up ($11k).
Does Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation 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 Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Duke Energy Foundation, The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust.
Where is Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation based?
Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation is based in NC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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