How much does The Allen Tate Foundation give?

The Allen Tate Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $32,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 81 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Allen Tate Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Arts & Culture (18%), Philanthropy (18%).

Who are The Allen Tate Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boy Scouts of America Mecklenburg County Council ($283k), Arts & Science Council Charlotte/Mecklenburg Inc ($72k), Queens University of Charlotte ($60k).

Does The Allen Tate Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Allen Tate 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 The Allen Tate Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas, United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc.

Where is The Allen Tate Foundation based?

The Allen Tate Foundation is based in NC.

The Allen Tate Foundation

The Allen Tate Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Allen Tate 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.

$33k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$313kArts & Culture$303kPhilanthropy$299kYouth Development$289kCommunity Improvement$88kHuman Services$72kHousing & Shelter$71kHealth$53kOther$0

02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $13k
$10k–50k2 grants · $20k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$293k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL CAPITAL	$10,000
HOMEOWNERS IMPACT FUND	$10,000
BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA	$5,000
THE GOODFELLOWS CLUB	$5,000
CHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS	$2,000
FRIENDSHIP PLACE	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 89 repeat orgs$317k to everyone else

89 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 86 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$302k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+49%

Still filing today

60%

34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

CC
CHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS
6× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +70%
CA
Cabarrus Arts Council
5× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +23%
GE
GUILFORD EDUCATION ALLIANCE
2× · 2020–2022 · $16k · revenue +64%

Funded once

DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +49%
AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +3%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $20k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Charlotte Is Creative

Charlotte Is Creative develops programs and initiatives designed to break the Charlotte mold and remake it with creativity into a city that draws people in, excites them, and inspires them to invest their financial, social and creative…

Arts & Culture

The Charlotte Center for the Humanities Inc

The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.

Human Services

Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

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United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Inc

The united arts council of raleigh and wake county, inc. builds better communities through support and advocacy of the arts. the organization strives to (1) champion arts education; (2) serve a larger metropolitan area with emerging…

Arts & Culture

United Way of Charlotte County Inc

Mobilizing the power of our community to break the cycle of poverty.

Philanthropy

Raleigh County Community Action Association Inc

Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…

Human Services

United Way of Coastal Carolina Inc

The united way of coastal carolina, inc. strives to meet the current and emerging human needs in craven, carteret, jones, and pamlico counties by mobilizing the resources of community organizations, agencies, recipients, and volunteers.

Philanthropy

Caldwell Arts Council Inc

To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc

—

North Carolina Council On Economic Education Inc

The nccee provides economic and financial education for educators and students throughout north carolina. this mission is accomplished through standards based workshops and a variety of resources for educators, academic competitions for…

Social Science

The Carolinas Gateway Partnership Inc

The carolinas gateway partnership is dedicated to the creation of community wealth through the retention, creation, and expansion of business opportunities in tarboro, rocky mount, and edgecombe county, north carolina.

Community Improvement

Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce

To build a thriving regional economy, enhance the community's quality of life, and strengthen member businesses.

—

Wilkes Economic Development Corporation

Economic development of wilkes county

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kings Mountain Little Theatre Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 179 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

87/91

Grantees still filing

55/91

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$959,937Philanthropy$261,400Education$187,598Human Services$106,169Arts & Culture$103,765Health$23,991Recreation & Sports$9,205

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC51.4× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · United Way Worldwide · Comporium Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Allen Tate Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Allen Tate Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home