North Carolina · Private foundation
The Bost 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.
- $24k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 11
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $462k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Bost Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 10 | $24k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $27k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $21k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $122k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $72k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $52k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Union Church of San Juan | $33,000 | 6 | n/a |
| PRISMS Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Hope House Foundation Inc | $8,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Davidson Community Players | $6,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Neighborhood Care Center Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Angels & Sparrows Soup Kitchen Inc | $6,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cornelius Arts Community Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Divers Alert Network | $1,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Mt Zion United Methodist Church | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cornelius History Museum | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($218k), not named here.
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 · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Bost Foundation
- How much does The Bost Foundation give?
- The Bost Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $24,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Bost Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (61%), Health (19%), Religion (11%).
- Who are The Bost Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Union Church of San Juan ($33k), PRISMS Inc ($30k), Hope House Foundation Inc ($8k).
- Does The Bost Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bost 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 Bost Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Duke Energy Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Bost Foundation based?
- The Bost Foundation is based in NC.
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