North Carolina · Public charity
Champions for Education Inc
The organization was organized exclusively for raising funds so that it may provide grants to other charities which strive to improve the quality of education around the nation.
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Champions for Education Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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 | 18 | $3.4M | 50% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $2.0M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $2.1M | 59% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $1.0M | 95% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $1.3M | 60% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $297k | 78% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $762k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $796k | 90% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Foundation | $1,655,602 | 6 | 0% |
| Discovery Place Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Cms Foundation | $867,033 | 7 | 16% |
| Youth Golf Foundation of the Carolinas | $810,182 | 6 | 10% |
| Carolina Youth Coalition | $546,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Teach for America Inc | $464,602 | 5 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Charlotte | $405,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Manna Food Bank Inc | $400,000 | 1 | 0% |
| World Golf Foundation Inc | $400,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The First Tee of Greater Washington DC Langston Golf Course | $349,000 | 1 | 20% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Champions for Education Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 82 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: United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Albemarle Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Brighthouse Financial Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · Ally Charitable Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · Equitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Champions for Education Inc
- How much does Champions for Education Inc give?
- Champions for Education Inc reported 19 grants totaling $3,410,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Champions for Education Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Recreation & Sports (19%), Health (19%).
- Who are Champions for Education Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Atrium Health Foundation ($1.7M), Discovery Place Inc ($1.0M), Cms Foundation ($867k).
- Does Champions for Education Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Champions for Education Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc, Foundation for the Carolinas, Albemarle Foundation.
- Where is Champions for Education Inc based?
- Champions for Education Inc is based in NC.
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