North Carolina · Private foundation
The Empire Gives Back
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $181k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 82%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 17
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $41k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 82% of the organizations The Empire Gives Back funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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 | 19 | $182k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $102k | 82% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $61k | 80% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $72k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $49k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $5k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safechild | $77,760 | 4 | 1% |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) | $20,500 | 2 | 0% |
| American University | $15,250 | 1 | 0% |
| The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Nc State Student Aid Association Inc | $14,483 | 2 | 0% |
| Nc State Engineering Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh | $9,600 | 2 | n/a |
| Broughton High School Caps Club Broughton High School | $8,575 | 1 | 2% |
| The Partnership Project | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Dereck Whittenburg Foundation | $5,000 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($252k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Empire Gives Back 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 · Duke Energy Foundation · Bell Cook Family Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Knier Family Foundation · Bailey Endowment Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Fidelity Foundation
How this is measured
About The Empire Gives Back
- How much does The Empire Gives Back give?
- The Empire Gives Back reported 19 grants totaling $181,233 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Empire Gives Back fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (30%), Crime & Legal (18%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are The Empire Gives Back's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Safechild ($78k), The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ($21k), American University ($15k).
- Does The Empire Gives Back fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 82% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Empire Gives Back 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 Empire Gives Back?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Duke Energy Foundation, Bell Cook Family Foundation.
- Where is The Empire Gives Back based?
- The Empire Gives Back is based in NC.
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