North Carolina · Private foundation
Sears Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $201k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Sears Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 9 | $201k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $113k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $52k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $181k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $161k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $47k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $21k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $28k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casa | $183,500 | 2 | 2% |
| The Green Chair Project | $108,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Church on Morgan | $85,000 | 1 | n/a |
| A Place at the Table | $49,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Gift of Life International Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Stepup Ministry | $36,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Bloomhere | $30,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Cecilia Rawlins Fund | $28,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Oak City Cares Inc | $21,000 | 4 | 1% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casa | $183,500 | 2 | 2% |
| The Green Chair Project | $108,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Church on Morgan | $85,000 | 1 | n/a |
| A Place at the Table | $49,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Gift of Life International Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Stepup Ministry | $36,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Bloomhere | $30,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Cecilia Rawlins Fund | $28,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Oak City Cares Inc | $21,000 | 4 | 1% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Aspire Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Safechild | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Women That Care Inc | $14,250 | 7 | n/a |
| The Quiet Place Nc Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 18% |
| The Ship Outreach and Community Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Together We Can Inc | $8,600 | 3 | 1% |
| Plm Families Together Inc | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Women's Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys Club of Wake County Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Eden Village of Wilmington | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beloved Asheville | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Manna Food Bank Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Family Violence Prevention Center Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Helping Hand Mission | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Churches Outreach Network | $2,000 | 1 | 2% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($81k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sears Family 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: North Carolina Community Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Bell Cook Family Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Realtor Foundation of Wake County
How this is measured
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About Sears Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Sears Family Foundation Inc give?
- Sears Family Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $201,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sears Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (33%), Human Services (24%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Sears Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Casa ($184k), The Green Chair Project ($108k), Church on Morgan ($85k).
- Does Sears Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sears Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sears Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Carolina Community Foundation, Triangle Community Foundation Inc, W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation.
- Where is Sears Family Foundation Inc based?
- Sears Family Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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