North Carolina · Public charity
Durham Public Schools Foundation
To catalyze big ideas and foster community engagement that will accelerate the transformation of durham public schools to ensure success and equity for every student.
- $730k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $457k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $380,324
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 6
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations Durham Public Schools Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 | 5 | $457k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $271k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $301k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $323k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Durham Public Schools | $2,209,974 | 5 | n/a |
| Student U | $105,600 | 1 | 2% |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) | $91,391 | 1 | 1% |
| World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Durham Teacher Warehouse Corp | $32,123 | 2 | 27% |
| Liberty Baptist Church | $28,196 | 1 | n/a |
| Nc State University | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Empowering Education Inc | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Kind Kitchen Group | $15,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Pupusas for Education | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Durham Public Schools | $2,209,974 | 5 | n/a |
| Student U | $105,600 | 1 | 2% |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) | $91,391 | 1 | 1% |
| World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Durham Teacher Warehouse Corp | $32,123 | 2 | 27% |
| Liberty Baptist Church | $28,196 | 1 | n/a |
| Nc State University | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Empowering Education Inc | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Kind Kitchen Group | $15,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Pupusas for Education | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chapel Hill - Carrboro Schools | $12,960 | 1 | n/a |
| Echo System | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| The Empress Haven | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Carolina Garden Company LLC | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Urban Sustainability Solutions Inc | $6,660 | 1 | 2% |
| PTA North Carolina Congress | $6,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Durham Library Foundation | $999 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Durham Public Schools Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 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.
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How this is measured
About Durham Public Schools Foundation
- How much does Durham Public Schools Foundation give?
- Durham Public Schools Foundation reported 5 itemized grants totaling $457,447, out of $730,328 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Durham Public Schools Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (93%), Human Services (3%), International (2%).
- Who are Durham Public Schools Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Durham Public Schools ($2.2M), Student U ($106k), The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ($91k).
- Does Durham Public Schools Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Durham Public Schools Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Durham Public Schools Foundation based?
- Durham Public Schools Foundation is based in NC.
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