North Carolina · Private foundation
Bollag Family 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.
- $178k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 52 to 70
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Bollag Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 54 | $178k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $102k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $204k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $52k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $50k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 70 | $151k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 61 | $47k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 55 | $39k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Labor Rights Forum | $165,000 | 2 | 2% |
| A Jewish Voice for Peace | $86,300 | 8 | 1% |
| If Not Now Education Fund | $36,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Education For Just Peace in Middle East | $36,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Middle East Children's Alliance | $32,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Center for Constitutional Rights | $28,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc | $28,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Amnesty International of the USA Inc | $23,100 | 8 | 0% |
| Democracy North Carolina | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Madre Inc | $15,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 102 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($57k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bollag Family Foundation 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: Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank · Arts & Science Council Charlotte/Mecklenburg Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Bollag Family Foundation
- How much does Bollag Family Foundation give?
- Bollag Family Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $177,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 70 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bollag Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (44%), International (26%), Environment (5%).
- Who are Bollag Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: International Labor Rights Forum ($165k), A Jewish Voice for Peace ($86k), If Not Now Education Fund ($37k).
- Does Bollag Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bollag Family 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 Bollag Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc, Merancas Foundation Inc.
- Where is Bollag Family Foundation based?
- Bollag Family Foundation is based in NC.
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