North Carolina · Private foundation
First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $562k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 42
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 39% of the organizations First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k 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 | 42 | $562k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $658k | 39% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $749k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $764k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $798k | 76% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $649k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation | $500,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Spoleto Festival USA Inc | $155,000 | 5 | 1% |
| University of South Carolina Educational Foundation | $145,167 | 2 | 0% |
| The Camp Cole Foundation Inc | $125,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Welvista | $106,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Columbia Museum of Art | $75,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Home Works of America Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 3% |
| McLeod Health Foundation | $69,167 | 6 | 0% |
| North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ | $60,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Charleston Day Schoolinc | $52,500 | 5 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 83 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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Davis Family Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Michael J Mungo Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Spartanburg County Foundation · Lipscomb Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First with peer funders
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About First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First
- How much does First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First give?
- First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First reported 42 grants totaling $561,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Education (25%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation ($500k), Spoleto Festival USA Inc ($155k), University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ($145k).
- Does First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina.
- Where is First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First based?
- First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First is based in NC.
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