· Private foundation
Best in Giving 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| THE CARYING PLACE | $20,000 |
| YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA | $10,000 |
| TRANSITION LIFECARE | $2,500 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER CHARLOTTE | $2,500 |
| SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTION | $2,000 |
| A PLACE AT THE TABLE | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue 0%
THE CARYING PLACE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $45k · revenue +258%- TLTransition LifeCare2× · 2024–2025 · $5k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
THE CENTER FOR VOLUNTEER CAREGIVINGone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -9%- TRTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -19%
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.
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.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
The caring place provides inclusive service, shelter and ongoing support for people experiencing domestic violence. through advocacy, education, and awareness, we empower people to build supportive, respectful, compassionate relationships.
The organization's mission is: We are guided by our Christian faith to address the impact of poverty and trauma on families with children in Halifax, Northampton, and Warren counties. We do this through advocacy, education, empowerment,…
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
Our continuing mission is to change the lives of those who suffer from alcohol and drug addiction.
To provide counseling, personal development programs, basic physical needs, transitional assistance, and family support to assure rehabilitation and post-release transition of incarcerated women who have committed to making positive,…
Our mission is to change our culture and policy in America to value and support caregiving. To that end, we seek to transform cultural norms and narratives about aging, disability and care; to win federal and state-level policy change; and…
To provide nutritious meals to the hungry and food insecure in Jackson County, NC in a welcoming environment. We do this through our soup kitchen, food pantry and community garden programs.
We partner with youth to realize their full potential, by creating opportunities, removing barriers, and promoting racial justice.
Chapel pointe at carlisle is a continuing care retirement community of the christian and missionary alliance and is for persons of all faiths. our mission is to provide comfortable retirement living and quality care and service to each…
To empower adults living with severe and persistent mental illness in north carolina with the tools to lead meaningful and independent lives.
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARYING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VOLUNTEER CAREGIVING ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE PET ADOPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds A PLACE AT THE TABLE ↗
- Who funds Youth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Best in Giving Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Best in Giving Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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