North Carolina · Private foundation
Michael and Laura Brader-Araje Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $249k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $17,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Michael and Laura Brader-Araje Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $249k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $222k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $223k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $187k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $192k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $200k | 39% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $179k | 43% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $150k | 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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lafayette College | $133,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Washington University | $130,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Carolina Friends School | $124,645 | 5 | 0% |
| The Educational Foundation Inc | $106,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Unc Health Foundation Inc | $87,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Inter-Faith Council for Social Service Inc | $63,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Lillian's List Foundation | $54,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc | $52,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Kidznotes Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The North Carolina Children's Museum | $50,000 | 4 | 3% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($494k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michael and Laura Brader-Araje 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Strowd Roses Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
Compare Michael and Laura Brader-Araje Foundation with peer funders
About Michael and Laura Brader-Araje Foundation
- How much does Michael and Laura Brader-Araje Foundation give?
- Michael and Laura Brader-Araje Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $249,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Michael and Laura Brader-Araje Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (35%), Arts & Culture (23%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are Michael and Laura Brader-Araje Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lafayette College ($133k), Washington University ($130k), Carolina Friends School ($125k).
- Does Michael and Laura Brader-Araje Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Michael and Laura Brader-Araje 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 Michael and Laura Brader-Araje Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Strowd Roses Inc, Duke Energy Foundation.
- Where is Michael and Laura Brader-Araje Foundation based?
- Michael and Laura Brader-Araje Foundation is based in NC.
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