· Private foundation
Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k57 grants · $208k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $617k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $471k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALEM ACADEMY & COLLEGE | $225,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| CENTENARY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $70,000 |
| THE ASHEVILLE SCHOOL | $51,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY | $50,000 |
| YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC | $49,500 |
| UNC INSTITUTE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT | $47,000 |
| SAINT MARY'S SCHOOL | $36,500 |
| PULLEN MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH | $35,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PINES | $35,000 |
| TRIANGLE FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $30,000 |
| CAMP ALBEMARLE | $28,000 |
| CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND | $25,000 |
| JOHNSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $652k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
154 repeat relationships: 82 still active in FY2025, 72 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $428k · revenue +30%- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)9× · 2017–2025 · $421k · revenue +51%
- NCNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- TNTCU NEELEY SCHOOL OF BUSINESSone grant, 2022 · $25k
- KCKINSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTSone grant, 2017 · $15k
- OMOBERLIN MIDDLE SCHOOL PTAone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +22%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.
Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.
How this is measured
107 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 107 of the 207 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARYS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PINES INC ↗
- Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALING TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SYLVAN HEIGHTS WATERFOWL PARK & ECO-CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds CASA ↗
- Who funds CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds MY KIDS CLUB ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · John William Pope Foundation · The Robert P Holding Foundation Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · North State Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · A E Finley Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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