· Private foundation
The Britton 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE INCARNATION | $10,000 |
| PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $7,000 |
| HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| THE BASCOM CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| ST PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH ENDOWMENT | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER | $5,000 |
| HIGHLANDS BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HUDSON LIBRARY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -69% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MOMEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES4× · 2019–2022 · $90k · revenue +6%
- HLHighlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +97%
- HBHighlands Biological Foundation Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- MCMISSION COMMUNITY PRIMARY CAREone grant, 2019 · $5k
- HCHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Incone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -69%
- PSPASADO'S SAFE HAVENgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +84%
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.
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.
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.
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
Improving health and well-being for those living in westernmost North Carolina.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Public/private collaborative to plant trees, raise awareness of the canopy, and educate about tree care.
To produce volunteer-based theatrical events in the Charlotte, NC region.
The Alliance For Historic Hillsborough has a mission to inspire visitors and residents to experience authentic Hillsborough.
To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc
To provide experiences in the visual and performing arts
Highpoint Center for Printmaking is dedicated to advancing the art of printmaking. We create pathways for artists, learners, and the public to increase their understanding and appreciation of printmaking through artistic and educational…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MEDICAL OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
- Who funds Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds Highlands Biological Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds St Peters Episcopal Church Endowment Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS ↗
- Who funds ARTS & SCIENCE COUNCIL CHARLOTTE/MECKLENBURG INC ↗
- Who funds Performing Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Theatre of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds Open Doors of Asheville Inc ↗
- Who funds Care Ring Inc ↗
- Who funds TEACHERS SUPPLY CLOSET ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JOEDANCE FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds PASADO'S SAFE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds Hospice House Foundation of WNC Inc ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Al Williams Jr Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Leona S Hudson Charitable Foundation · Farmer Lee Foundation Inc · Ashcourt Family Foundation Inc · The Inman Foundation · The Woodcrest Foundation · Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc · The H Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Britton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Britton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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