North Carolina · Private foundation
The Eason 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.
- $38k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 62%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $230k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations The Eason Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 | 4 | $38k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $53k | 62% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $21k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $76k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $77k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $100k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Durham Nativity School Inc | $87,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Urban Ministries of Durham Inc | $60,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Roaring Gap Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Reality Ministries Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Alleghany County Rescue Squad Inc | $750 | 2 | 0% |
| Book Harvest | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Arbor Acres United Methodist Retirement Community Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($197k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Eason 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Eason Foundation
- How much does The Eason Foundation give?
- The Eason Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $37,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Eason Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Arts & Culture (22%), Food & Nutrition (16%).
- Who are The Eason Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Durham Nativity School Inc ($88k), Urban Ministries of Durham Inc ($60k), Roaring Gap Foundation Inc ($10k).
- Does The Eason Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Eason 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 Eason Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, American Endowment Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is The Eason Foundation based?
- The Eason Foundation is based in NC.
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