North Carolina · Private foundation
George and Sarah Buchanan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 82
- Grants FY2025
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 67
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 23
- Total assets, FY2025
- $66M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations George and Sarah Buchanan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $845k 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 | 80 | $3.6M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 67 | $2.9M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $1.0M | 68% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $176k | 82% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $13k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $161k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $290k | 35% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $292k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caldwell Academy | $436,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Danville Life Saving and First Aid Crew Inc | $355,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $348,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $340,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mdrc | $295,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Averett University | $250,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $220,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kids & Pros Inc | $190,000 | 8 | 28% |
| Operation Coming Home Foundation Inc | $175,000 | 3 | 39% |
| Mount Jubilee Ministries Inc | $170,000 | 2 | 5% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
George and Sarah Buchanan Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 71 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: Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Alexander Berkeley Carrington Jr & Ruth Simpson Carrington Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation of the Dan River Region · The Stout Family Foundation · Jt-Minnie Maude Charitable Trust · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Reynolds American Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Betty J and Robert P Williams Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare George and Sarah Buchanan Foundation with peer funders
About George and Sarah Buchanan Foundation
- How much does George and Sarah Buchanan Foundation give?
- George and Sarah Buchanan Foundation reported 82 grants totaling $3,665,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 67 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does George and Sarah Buchanan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Human Services (22%), Health (19%).
- Who are George and Sarah Buchanan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Caldwell Academy ($436k), Danville Life Saving and First Aid Crew Inc ($355k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($349k).
- Does George and Sarah Buchanan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does George and Sarah Buchanan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as George and Sarah Buchanan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc, Alexander Berkeley Carrington Jr & Ruth Simpson Carrington Charitable Trust, The Community Foundation of the Dan River Region.
- Where is George and Sarah Buchanan Foundation based?
- George and Sarah Buchanan Foundation is based in NC.
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