North Carolina · Private foundation
Hopestar Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $60k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 88%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 51
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $296k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 88% of the organizations Hopestar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 99% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k 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 | 11 | $60k | 73% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $122k | 88% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $22k | 88% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $102k | 95% |
| FY2017 | 51 | $169k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atrium Health Foundation | $58,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Foundation for Health Leadership and Innovation | $55,000 | 1 | 1% |
| North Carolina Alliance for Health | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Healthconnect One | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Duke University | $18,575 | 2 | 0% |
| United Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc | $15,326 | 1 | 0% |
| The University of North Carolina at Charlotte | $14,185 | 1 | n/a |
| The New Hampton School | $10,720 | 1 | 0% |
| The Center For Native Health Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Institute for Child Success Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($201k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hopestar Foundation 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: The Leon Levine Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · Merancas Foundation Inc · The Duke Endowment · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Hopestar Foundation
- How much does Hopestar Foundation give?
- Hopestar Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $60,373 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Hopestar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (59%), Health (12%), Philanthropy (11%).
- Who are Hopestar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Atrium Health Foundation ($59k), Foundation for Health Leadership and Innovation ($55k), North Carolina Alliance for Health ($20k).
- Does Hopestar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hopestar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hopestar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Leon Levine Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas, United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc.
- Where is Hopestar Foundation based?
- Hopestar Foundation is based in NC.
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