North Carolina · Private foundation
The Bolick Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $23M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 266
- Grants FY2025
- 261
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of The Bolick Foundation’s FY2026 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 82 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2025, the last year The Bolick Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 218 organizations, $23M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $39,787
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,674,089
- Organizations funded a year
- 122 to 261
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 33
- Total assets, FY2025
- $60M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations The Bolick Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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 | 257 | $21M | 23% |
| FY2024 | 261 | $18M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 220 | $12M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 151 | $3.2M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 122 | $2.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lutheran Church Missouri Synod | $20,607,888 | 5 | n/a |
| Gateway International Missions Inc | $1,900,000 | 6 | 66% |
| Operation Mobilization | $717,623 | 6 | n/a |
| Africa Inland Mission International Incorporated | $665,987 | 5 | n/a |
| Launch Global | $608,401 | 4 | n/a |
| Mesa Global | $566,689 | 5 | n/a |
| The Rosser Foundation dba International Cooperating Ministries | $536,328 | 4 | 1% |
| Eastern European Mission | $534,178 | 3 | n/a |
| Pioneers | $516,547 | 5 | n/a |
| Biglife International Inc | $514,851 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 279 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 92 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Bolick Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 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: Tyndale House Ministries · Christian Community Foundation Inc · International Generosity Foundation Trust · George Foundation Inc · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · G II Charities · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · From His Hand Foundation · Beaver Family Foundation Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Underdown Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Bolick Foundation
- How much does The Bolick Foundation give?
- The Bolick Foundation reported 266 grants totaling $22,514,785 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 122 and 261 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Bolick Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Religion (72%), International (12%), Education (5%).
- Who are The Bolick Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Lutheran Church Missouri Synod ($21M), Gateway International Missions Inc ($1.9M), Operation Mobilization ($718k).
- Does The Bolick Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bolick 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 Bolick Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tyndale House Ministries, Christian Community Foundation Inc, International Generosity Foundation Trust.
- Where is The Bolick Foundation based?
- The Bolick Foundation is based in NC.
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