North Carolina · Private foundation
The Anonymous Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $521k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 51
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations The Anonymous Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 | 24 | $521k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $605k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $509k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $1.2M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $997k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 51 | $1.0M | 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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canterbury School | $1,000,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Santa Fe Opera | $423,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Guilford College | $300,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Eastern Music Festival Inc | $255,000 | 6 | 2% |
| North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation | $140,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation | $123,990 | 4 | 0% |
| The University of North Carolina at Greensboro | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Greensboro Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Arts Council of Greensboro Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Anonymous Fund 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: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · Dawn S Chaney Foundation · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I · Hillsdale Fund · Griffin Family Foundation · The Hummel Family Fund Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Joseph M Bryan Foundation
How this is measured
About The Anonymous Fund
- How much does The Anonymous Fund give?
- The Anonymous Fund reported 24 grants totaling $521,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 51 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Anonymous Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Education (31%), Human Services (18%).
- Who are The Anonymous Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Canterbury School ($1.0M), The Santa Fe Opera ($424k), Guilford College ($300k).
- Does The Anonymous Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Anonymous Fund 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 Anonymous Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc, Amg Charitable Gift Foundation, The Cemala Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Anonymous Fund based?
- The Anonymous Fund is based in NC.
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