North Carolina · Private foundation
The Cemala Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2024
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $210,294
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 51
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $34M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations The Cemala Foundation Inc 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; $148k 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 | 53 | $1.6M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $1.2M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $1.3M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $1.9M | 45% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ready for School Ready for Life | $1,427,727 | 5 | 6% |
| Action Greensboro | $940,000 | 5 | 22% |
| Greensboro Chamber Foundation | $350,000 | 5 | 69% |
| Greensboro Children's Museum Inc | $335,000 | 3 | 12% |
| United Way of Greater Greensboro Inc | $325,000 | 5 | 1% |
| United Arts Council of Greensboro Inc | $205,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Guilford Education Alliance | $205,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Greensboro Urban Ministry | $150,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Greensboro Symphony Orchestra Inc | $87,500 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Cemala Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Joseph M Bryan Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Hillsdale Fund · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I · Weaver Foundation Inc · Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community Health Foundation · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation
How this is measured
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About The Cemala Foundation Inc
- How much does The Cemala Foundation Inc give?
- The Cemala Foundation Inc reported 55 grants totaling $1,599,594 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 51 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Cemala Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (36%), Community Improvement (20%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are The Cemala Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Ready for School Ready for Life ($1.4M), Action Greensboro ($940k), Greensboro Chamber Foundation ($350k).
- Does The Cemala Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Cemala Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Cemala Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc, Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Cemala Foundation Inc based?
- The Cemala Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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