North Carolina · Private foundation
Bearded Lady Productions
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.
- $27k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $800
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,300
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 21
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations Bearded Lady Productions funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $27k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $23k | 52% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $16k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beloved Asheville | $6,625 | 3 | 0% |
| Loving Food Resources Inc | $5,190 | 3 | 0% |
| Youth Outright Wnc Inc | $4,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Arms Around Asd | $4,275 | 3 | 2% |
| Tranzmission Inc | $3,985 | 3 | 1% |
| Tzedek Social Justice Fund | $3,950 | 2 | 0% |
| Pisgah Legal Services | $2,700 | 2 | 0% |
| Open Hearts Art Center Inc | $2,590 | 2 | 0% |
| Asheville Poverty Initiative | $2,350 | 3 | 0% |
| SeekHealing | $1,900 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beloved Asheville | $6,625 | 3 | 0% |
| Loving Food Resources Inc | $5,190 | 3 | 0% |
| Youth Outright Wnc Inc | $4,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Arms Around Asd | $4,275 | 3 | 2% |
| Tranzmission Inc | $3,985 | 3 | 1% |
| Tzedek Social Justice Fund | $3,950 | 2 | 0% |
| Pisgah Legal Services | $2,700 | 2 | 0% |
| Open Hearts Art Center Inc | $2,590 | 2 | 0% |
| Asheville Poverty Initiative | $2,350 | 3 | 0% |
| SeekHealing | $1,900 | 2 | 0% |
| Our Voice Inc | $1,890 | 3 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Services of Wnc Inc | $1,410 | 2 | 0% |
| Cornbread & Roses Community Counseling Inc | $1,125 | 2 | 1% |
| Pflag Asheville | $1,034 | 2 | n/a |
| Haywood County Pride | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hendersonville Pride | $850 | 1 | n/a |
| Trevor Project Inc | $800 | 2 | 0% |
| Mountain Child Advocacy Center Inc | $600 | 1 | 0% |
| Sunrise Community for Recovery and Wellness Inc | $600 | 1 | 0% |
| Equality Nc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| NAMI Western Carolina Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Campaign For Southern Equality | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| Homeward Bound of Western North Carolina Inc | $367 | 1 | 0% |
| Rainbow Railroad USA Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Butchout | $10 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($16k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bearded Lady Productions supplied at peak.
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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: Dogwood Health Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · The Morton and Barbara Mandel Family Foundation · Manna Food Bank Inc · Laughing Gull Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Bearded Lady Productions
- How much does Bearded Lady Productions give?
- Bearded Lady Productions reported 25 grants totaling $26,775 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 21 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Bearded Lady Productions fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Health (18%), Civil Rights (12%).
- Who are Bearded Lady Productions's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Beloved Asheville ($7k), Loving Food Resources Inc ($5k), Youth Outright Wnc Inc ($4k).
- Does Bearded Lady Productions fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bearded Lady Productions 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 Bearded Lady Productions?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dogwood Health Trust, The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, Wnc Bridge Foundation.
- Where is Bearded Lady Productions based?
- Bearded Lady Productions is based in NC.
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