North Carolina · Private foundation
Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc
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.
- $234k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 76
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 72
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $200k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $28,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 58 to 72
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 | 71 | $171k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $150k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $157k | 2% |
| FY2021 | 63 | $164k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homeward Bound of Western North Carolina Inc | $56,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy | $37,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Helpmate Inc | $34,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $19,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Asheville Glass Art School | $16,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Pisgah Legal Services | $14,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Manna Food Bank Inc | $14,000 | 4 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($120k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc 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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn · United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County Inc · The Goodman Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community Inc · The Hedrick Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc
- How much does Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc give?
- Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc reported 76 itemized grants totaling $199,500, out of $234,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 72 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (17%), Education (14%), Environment (7%).
- Who are Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Homeward Bound of Western North Carolina Inc ($56k), Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy ($37k), Helpmate Inc ($34k).
- Does Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc 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 Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, Dogwood Health Trust, Wnc Bridge Foundation.
- Where is Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc based?
- Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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