North Carolina · Private foundation
George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc
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.
- $49k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 29
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $768k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 25 | $49k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $47k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $43k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $51k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $46k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $46k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $29k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 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 State University Foundation Inc | $36,000 | 7 | 0% |
| North Carolina Symphony Society Inc | $30,100 | 6 | 0% |
| North Carolina Opera | $21,100 | 7 | 1% |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) | $20,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The North Carolina Aquarium Society | $19,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Saint Marys School | $16,700 | 7 | 0% |
| Community Music School Inc | $11,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Urban Ministries of Wake County Inc | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Healing Transitions Inc | $9,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Inter-Faith Food Shuttle | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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: Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Bell Cook Family Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · C Hamilton Sloan Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · Chaucer Charitable Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Aj Fletcher Foundation
How this is measured
Compare George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc with peer funders
About George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc
- How much does George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc give?
- George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $48,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 29 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Education (24%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
- Who are George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: North Carolina State University Foundation Inc ($36k), North Carolina Symphony Society Inc ($30k), North Carolina Opera ($21k).
- Does George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation, Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio.
- Where is George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc based?
- George Smedes Poyner Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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