North Carolina · Private foundation
Dawn S Chaney 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.
- $253k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $135,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $694k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Dawn S Chaney Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 28 | $253k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $110k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $110k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $91k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $57k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $27k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $123k | 39% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $44k | 63% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guilford Green Foundation | $64,500 | 7 | 9% |
| Greensboro Downtown Parks Inc | $51,850 | 7 | 2% |
| Sanctuary House Inc | $43,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Bennett College | $41,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Downtown Greensboro Inc | $37,400 | 7 | 1% |
| United Arts Council of Greensboro Inc | $30,380 | 7 | 1% |
| Action Greensboro | $29,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Junior Achievement of the Triad Inc | $25,250 | 4 | 2% |
| North Carolina Folk Festival | $20,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Womens Resource Center | $20,000 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($444k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dawn S Chaney 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: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · The Hummel Family Fund Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Anonymous Fund · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community Health Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I · Weaver Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Dawn S Chaney Foundation
- How much does Dawn S Chaney Foundation give?
- Dawn S Chaney Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $253,295 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dawn S Chaney Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Human Services (19%), Community Improvement (17%).
- Who are Dawn S Chaney Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Guilford Green Foundation ($65k), Greensboro Downtown Parks Inc ($52k), Sanctuary House Inc ($43k).
- Does Dawn S Chaney Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dawn S Chaney 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 Dawn S Chaney Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc, Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc.
- Where is Dawn S Chaney Foundation based?
- Dawn S Chaney Foundation is based in NC.
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