North Carolina · Private foundation
The Belk 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.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 42
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $43M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Belk Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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 | 36 | $2.0M | 39% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $1.8M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $2.2M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $2.2M | 46% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $1.9M | 28% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $1.5M | 43% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teach for America Inc | $700,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Heart Math Tutoring Inc | $510,000 | 7 | 4% |
| North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ | $471,000 | 5 | 18% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $447,209 | 5 | n/a |
| UrbanPromise Charlotte | $432,500 | 7 | 4% |
| Cms Foundation | $425,000 | 6 | 4% |
| The Helps Education Fund Inc | $402,500 | 4 | 15% |
| International House of Metrolina Inc | $397,340 | 7 | 5% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Charlotte | $375,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Profound Gentlemen Inc | $365,000 | 5 | 4% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Belk Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Leon Levine Foundation · Gates Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Barnhill Family Foundation · The Goodnight Educational Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · The Winston-Salem Foundation
How this is measured
About The Belk Foundation
- How much does The Belk Foundation give?
- The Belk Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $2,105,024 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 42 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Belk Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (70%), Philanthropy (9%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are The Belk Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Teach for America Inc ($700k), Heart Math Tutoring Inc ($510k), North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ ($471k).
- Does The Belk Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Belk 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 Belk Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, The Leon Levine Foundation, Gates Foundation.
- Where is The Belk Foundation based?
- The Belk Foundation is based in NC.
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