North Carolina · Private foundation
Kontoor Brands Foundation
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.
- $174k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 92%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 13
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 92% of the organizations Kontoor Brands Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k 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 | 12 | $174k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $175k | 92% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $150k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $50k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backpack Beginnings | $65,300 | 3 | 2% |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Housing Solutions of Guilford Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Partners Ending Homelessness | $35,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Out of the Garden Project | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| A Simple Gesture - Greensboro Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Servant Center Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Junior Achievement of the Triad Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 4% |
Show all 25 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Kontoor Brands Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 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: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · David and Claudia Babb Reich Family Foundation · Weaver Foundation Inc · Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community Health Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · United Way of Greater Greensboro Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Foundation for a Healthy High Point · The Cemala Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Kontoor Brands Foundation
- How much does Kontoor Brands Foundation give?
- Kontoor Brands Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $174,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Kontoor Brands Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (22%), Human Services (20%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are Kontoor Brands Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Backpack Beginnings ($65k), United States Association for UNHCR ($50k), Community Housing Solutions of Guilford Inc ($50k).
- Does Kontoor Brands Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 92% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kontoor Brands Foundation 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 Kontoor Brands Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc, Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc.
- Where is Kontoor Brands Foundation based?
- Kontoor Brands Foundation is based in NC.
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