How much does Mecklenburg Partnership for Children give?

Mecklenburg Partnership for Children reported 14 grants totaling $24,640,176 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Mecklenburg Partnership for Children fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (81%), Human Services (13%), Health (6%).

Who are Mecklenburg Partnership for Children's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mecklenburg County ($102M), Child Care Resources Inc ($16M), Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools ($9.4M).

Does Mecklenburg Partnership for Children fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mecklenburg Partnership for Children?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc, Duke Energy Foundation.

Where is Mecklenburg Partnership for Children based?

Mecklenburg Partnership for Children is based in NC.

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North Carolina · Public charity

Mecklenburg Partnership for Children

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$25M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 14
Grants FY2025: 15
Organizations funded FY2024: 0%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $322,033
Largest grant, FY2025: $19,916,877
Organizations funded a year: 13 to 19; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $1.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Mecklenburg Partnership for Children funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	10	$25M	0%
FY2024	15	$24M	0%
FY2023	19	$23M	32%
FY2022	17	$22M	29%
FY2021	14	$18M	0%
FY2020	14	$15M	14%
FY2019	13	$10M	0%
FY2018	13	$5.2M	0%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$119MHuman Services$19MHealth$8.6MPhilanthropy$215kArts & Culture$23k

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
Mecklenburg County	$102,274,531	9	n/a
Child Care Resources Inc	$15,668,210	9	13%
Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools	$9,434,193	9	n/a
Thompson Child & Family Focus Inc	$4,070,827	6	10%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Charlotte	$3,809,408	9	1%
Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc	$3,564,518	9	9%
Charlotte Bilingual Learning Center	$1,425,223	9	18%
Care Ring Inc	$1,213,289	9	3%
Central Piedmont Community College	$1,041,290	7	n/a
The Learning Collaborative	$958,497	9	12%

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All grantees of Mecklenburg Partnership for Children by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Mecklenburg County	$102,274,531	9	n/a
Child Care Resources Inc	$15,668,210	9	13%
Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools	$9,434,193	9	n/a
Thompson Child & Family Focus Inc	$4,070,827	6	10%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Charlotte	$3,809,408	9	1%
Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc	$3,564,518	9	9%
Charlotte Bilingual Learning Center	$1,425,223	9	18%
Care Ring Inc	$1,213,289	9	3%
Central Piedmont Community College	$1,041,290	7	n/a
The Learning Collaborative	$958,497	9	12%
Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc	$886,503	6	7%
Freedom Communities	$503,740	3	7%
Lakewood Preschool Corporation	$500,702	5	27%
Presbyterian Hospital Foundation	$355,966	6	1%
Safe Alliance Inc	$352,606	5	3%
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc	$220,000	1	1%
Educational Equity Institute Inc	$215,205	2	n/a
Bye Foundation Inc	$214,784	2	53%
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Auth Dba Atrium Health	$107,903	2	n/a
Mecklenburg Partnership for Children	$74,205	3	0%
Queen City Cocoa Beans Incorporated	$32,627	1	15%
Wtvi Foundation Inc	$28,379	1	2%
Project 658 Inc	$25,620	2	0%
North State Sound LLC	$22,900	1	n/a
Promising Pages Inc	$18,667	1	2%
Family Childcare & Center Enrichment Foundation Inc	$16,960	2	10%
Diaper Bank of North Carolina	$5,500	1	0%

Mecklenburg Partnership for Children supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC37.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · The Leon Levine Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · Womens Impact Fund · Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank · Speedway Children's Charities · Truist Foundation Inc · The Perper Family Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Mecklenburg Partnership for Children

How much does Mecklenburg Partnership for Children give?: Mecklenburg Partnership for Children reported 14 grants totaling $24,640,176 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mecklenburg Partnership for Children fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (81%), Human Services (13%), Health (6%).
Who are Mecklenburg Partnership for Children's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mecklenburg County ($102M), Child Care Resources Inc ($16M), Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools ($9.4M).
Does Mecklenburg Partnership for Children fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mecklenburg Partnership for Children?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc, Duke Energy Foundation.
Where is Mecklenburg Partnership for Children based?: Mecklenburg Partnership for Children is based in NC.