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.

Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation

Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

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

02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k33 grants · $37k
$10k–50k1 grant · $20k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$585k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SELWYN AVENUE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$20,000
BROOKGREEN GARDENS	$3,025
ROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES	$2,000
NOURISH UP	$2,000
CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION	$2,000
BASKERVILL FOOD PANTRY	$2,000
WING HAVEN FOUNDATION	$1,000
THE LITCHFIELD BEACH NATURE CONSERVANCY	$1,000
HEART MATH TUTORING	$1,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CHLT	$1,000
CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
ROOF ABOVE URBAN MINISTRY	$1,000
PBS NORTH CAROLINA	$1,000
ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$440k · 54 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

54 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$440k

$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+8%

Still filing today

39%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentAnimalsEducationRecreation & 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.

Backed again, and grew

BG
BROOKGREEN GARDENS
9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +52%
HS
Humane Society of Charlotte Inc
7× · 2019–2025 · $12k · revenue +20%
NU
Nourish Up
9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +278%

Funded once

SA
Selyn Avenue Presbuterian Church
one grant, 2017 · $17k
SA
Selwyn Ave Presbyterian Church
one grant, 2017 · $1k
CL
CAMP LUCK INC
one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +8%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Carolina Meadows Foundation Inc

To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.

Human Services

Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region

Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.

Human Services

Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health

Conway Hospital Community Services

Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.

Health

Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health

Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services

Hospice of Gaston County Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

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Sustain Charlotte Inc

Sustain Charlotte's mission is to create a more equitable, connected, and healthy community by inspiring responsible growth and transportation choices.

Community Improvement

Bridgewater Home Inc

Assisted Living and Nursing Care

Human Services

Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health

Covenant HomeCare

Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health

Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Angels Inc; the most unlike its peers is Southminster Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 83 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/30

Grantees still filing

24/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$331,000Human Services$41,575Health$36,200Animals$28,500Environment$25,755Education$9,400Recreation & Sports$1,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ann F & John W Copeland Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home