North Carolina · Community foundation
Polk County Community Foundation Inc
To administer funds entrusted to support charitable, cultural, educational and publicly beneficial activities in the community centered in and around polk county, n.c. Both by directly expending sums for such purposes and in cooperation with institutions qualified to carry out these objectives most efficiently. The foundation works with…
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.1M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $32,518
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $320,888
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 44
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $77M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Polk County Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k 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 | 50 | $3.1M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $2.6M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $1.9M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $1.4M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $925k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $1.9M | 7% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thermal Belt Outreach Ministry Inc | $1,476,603 | 7 | 19% |
| Tryon Fine Arts Center Inc | $1,313,179 | 7 | 37% |
| Foothills Equestrian Nature Center Inc | $1,189,662 | 7 | 35% |
| Polk County Schools | $986,575 | 7 | n/a |
| Tryon Arts and Crafts Inc | $821,279 | 7 | 55% |
| Episcopal Church of the Holy Cross | $666,040 | 7 | n/a |
| Lanier Library Association Inc | $481,400 | 7 | 28% |
| St Luke's Foundation Inc | $476,851 | 7 | 18% |
| Tryon Little Theater Inc | $428,665 | 7 | 48% |
| Conserving Carolina | $421,115 | 3 | 5% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Polk County Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 16 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Gateway Wellness Foundation · Carolina Foothills Foundation · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Marjorie M & Lawrence R Bradley Endowment Fund · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Dobbs Family Charitable Foundation Trust Agreement · J M Smith Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Holl Foundation · The Plume Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Polk County Community Foundation Inc
- How much does Polk County Community Foundation Inc give?
- Polk County Community Foundation Inc reported 50 itemized grants totaling $3,067,747, out of $3,304,890 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 44 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Polk County Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Food & Nutrition (13%), Education (12%).
- Who are Polk County Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Thermal Belt Outreach Ministry Inc ($1.5M), Tryon Fine Arts Center Inc ($1.3M), Foothills Equestrian Nature Center Inc ($1.2M).
- Does Polk County Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Polk County Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, Dogwood Health Trust, Gateway Wellness Foundation.
- Where is Polk County Community Foundation Inc based?
- Polk County Community Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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