North Carolina · Private foundation
The Contemporary 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.
- $15k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations The Contemporary Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 89% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $544k 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 | 2 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $609k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $337k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $203k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $188k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $159k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $159k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interfaith Emergency Services Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Red Dog Farm Animal Rescue Network | $45,000 | 5 | 4% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $45,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Paul J Ciener Botanical Garden | $39,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Sheltering Hands Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Greensboro Children's Museum Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 1% |
| North Carolina for Community and Justice Inc | $27,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Reach Out First Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Mustard Seed Community Health | $25,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Animal Rescue and Foster Program Inc | $25,000 | 6 | 3% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Contemporary Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Reynolds American Foundation · Weaver Foundation Inc · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Griffin Family Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Contemporary Foundation
- How much does The Contemporary Foundation give?
- The Contemporary Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $15,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Contemporary Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (35%), Recreation & Sports (31%), Animals (7%).
- Who are The Contemporary Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Interfaith Emergency Services Inc ($50k), Red Dog Farm Animal Rescue Network ($45k), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($45k).
- Does The Contemporary Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Contemporary 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 Contemporary Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc, Amg Charitable Gift Foundation, Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc.
- Where is The Contemporary Foundation based?
- The Contemporary Foundation is based in NC.
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