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Doug & Elizabeth Townsend Private Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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100% of Doug & Elizabeth Townsend Private Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to North Carolina Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’19
0
’20
1
’21
0
’22
0
’23
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$8k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Doug & Elizabeth Townsend Private Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20211$43k100%
FY20201$100kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$109kHuman Services$100kEducation$43k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Carteret Community College Foundation Inc$42,50012%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($100k), not named here.

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About Doug & Elizabeth Townsend Private Foundation

How much does Doug & Elizabeth Townsend Private Foundation give?
Doug & Elizabeth Townsend Private Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $1,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Doug & Elizabeth Townsend Private Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Philanthropy (43%), Human Services (40%), Education (17%).
Who are Doug & Elizabeth Townsend Private Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: Carteret Community College Foundation Inc ($43k).
Does Doug & Elizabeth Townsend Private Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Doug & Elizabeth Townsend Private Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Doug & Elizabeth Townsend Private Foundation based?
Doug & Elizabeth Townsend Private Foundation is based in NC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 3 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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