How much did Bollag Family Foundation grant in FY2025?

Bollag Family Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $177,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is Bollag Family Foundation based?

Bollag Family Foundation is based in NC.

Bollag Family Foundation

Foundation Dossiers

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What you fund

01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Civil Rights$364kInternational$211kEnvironment$42kHuman Services$40kCrime & Legal$39kPublic Benefit$27kArts & Culture$19kSocial Science$17kOther$0

02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k48 grants · $93k
$10k–50k6 grants · $85k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE	$30,000
PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND DBA PCRF	$15,000
MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE	$10,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL	$10,000
IF NOT NOW	$10,000
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS	$10,000
EDUCATION FOR JUST PEACE IN MIDDLE EAST DBA US CAMPAIGN FOR PALESTINIAN	$7,000
CAROLINA REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT AGENCY INC	$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC	$5,000
TRANS YOUTH EQUALITY FOUNDATION	$5,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH	$5,000
MEDECINS SANAS FRONTIERS USA INC DBA DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC	$5,000
GREENPEACE FUND INC	$4,000
MADRE	$3,000
NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER	$3,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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

Which US states your grants reach

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

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$798k · 76 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

76 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$798k

$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+8%

Still filing today

88%

79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsHealthEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

AJ
A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE
8× · 2018–2025 · $86k · revenue +188%
IN
IF NOT NOW EDUCATION FUND
8× · 2018–2025 · $37k · revenue +254%
Education For Just Peace in Middle East
8× · 2018–2025 · $36k · revenue +217%

Funded once

MP
MARSHA P JOHNSON INSTITUTE
one grant, 2024 · $3k
MP
MOVING POETS CHARLOTTE NC
one grant, 2018 · $1k
WC
WEDGEWOOD CHURCH
one grant, 2024 · $1k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

United States Association for Unhcr

USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.

International

Disability Rights North Carolina

Disability rights north carolina is a legal advocacy organization that advances and defends the rights of people with all types of disabilities, of all ages, throughout north carolina.

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National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement

North Carolina Conservation Network

The north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.

Environment

Climate Rights International

CRI is an international climate and human rights monitoring and advocacy organization dedicated to preventing climate change and human rights abuses.

Environment

Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition

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

CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grassroots International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chipping in. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/103

the rest of the field

13%

240,396/1,819,462

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 97 of the 114 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

97/97

Grantees still filing

72/97

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

International$453,195Other$182,730Civil Rights$73,750Human Services$47,500Crime & Legal$28,000Environment$22,650Arts & Culture$15,001

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC39.7× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Bollag Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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 camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines