North Carolina · Private foundation
Nucor Charitable 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.
- $5.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 62%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 42
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $38M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations Nucor Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M 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 | 51 | $5.2M | 43% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $3.1M | 62% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $2.5M | 55% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $7.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte Rescue Mission | $3,040,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Montana Technological University Foundation | $2,000,000 | 1 | 15% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $1,700,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $1,015,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Charmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Alliance | $1,000,000 | 1 | 18% |
| Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Charlotte Mecklenburg Afro-American Cultural and Service Center Inc | $650,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Mother Emanuel Memorial Foundation | $500,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Discovery Place Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Central Piedmont Community College Foundation Inc | $500,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Nucor Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Albemarle Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · The Leon Levine Foundation · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc · Ally Charitable Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank
How this is measured
About Nucor Charitable Foundation
- How much does Nucor Charitable Foundation give?
- Nucor Charitable Foundation reported 51 grants totaling $5,225,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 42 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Nucor Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (29%), Education (22%), Public Benefit (11%).
- Who are Nucor Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Charlotte Rescue Mission ($3.0M), Montana Technological University Foundation ($2.0M), American Heart Association Inc ($1.7M).
- Does Nucor Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nucor Charitable 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 Nucor Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Albemarle Foundation, United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc.
- Where is Nucor Charitable Foundation based?
- Nucor Charitable Foundation is based in NC.
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