Delaware · Private foundation
The Eshelman 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.
- $107k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $46k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations The Eshelman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 | 10 | $107k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $451k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $162k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $250k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $270k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $349k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $269k | 44% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $445k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welcome Home Angel Inc | $360,000 | 5 | 32% |
| The Carousel Center Inc | $185,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Kids Making It Inc | $137,500 | 6 | 5% |
| The Hill School of Wilmington Inc | $114,012 | 6 | 3% |
| Communities in Schools of Cape Fear Inc | $109,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare | $107,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Brigade Boys & Girls Club Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Cape Fear Guardian ad Litem Association | $92,500 | 6 | 20% |
| A Safe Place Inc | $92,000 | 5 | 12% |
| NourishNC Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($132k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Eshelman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 40 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: The Landfall Foundation Inc · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Dan Cameron Family Foundation Inc · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · International Paper Company Foundation · Novant Health Inc · The Myrtle and Rt Sinclair Jr Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Eshelman Foundation
- How much does The Eshelman Foundation give?
- The Eshelman Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $106,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Eshelman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Environment (17%), Education (16%).
- Who are The Eshelman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Welcome Home Angel Inc ($360k), The Carousel Center Inc ($185k), Kids Making It Inc ($138k).
- Does The Eshelman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Eshelman 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 Eshelman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Landfall Foundation Inc, New Hanover Community Endowment Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation.
- Where is The Eshelman Foundation based?
- The Eshelman Foundation is based in DE.
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