North Carolina · Private foundation
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $25M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $24,602,951
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $24,602,951
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 89
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $217M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $25M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $21M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $22M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $19M | 100% |
| FY2021 | 89 | $16M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Feeding the Carolinas | $1,000,000 | 1 | 35% |
| Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project | $500,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Nc Child | $500,000 | 1 | 22% |
| Foundation for Health Leadership and Innovation | $445,000 | 1 | 5% |
| North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc | $403,000 | 1 | 2% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $391,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mountain Area Health Education Center Inc | $365,000 | 1 | 0% |
| North Carolina Center for Nonprofit Organizations Inc | $350,000 | 1 | 24% |
| North Carolina Institute of Medicine | $348,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 78 grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($92M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Duke Endowment · Foundation for the Carolinas · Blueprint North Carolina · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · John Rex Endowment
How this is measured
Compare Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation with peer funders
About Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation
- How much does Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation give?
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $24,602,951 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 89 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (3%), Health (3%), Education (3%).
- Who are Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc ($1.0M), Feeding the Carolinas ($1.0M), Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project ($500k).
- Does Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc, Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Dogwood Health Trust.
- Where is Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation based?
- Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation is based in NC.
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