North Carolina · Private foundation
The Goodnight Educational 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.
- $9.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $186M
- 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 Goodnight Educational Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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 | 25 | $9.2M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $8.5M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $8.7M | 4% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $9.1M | 7% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $8.0M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $8.2M | 7% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $7.5M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $7.3M | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina State University Foundation Inc | $28,120,700 | 9 | 14% |
| Cary Academy | $8,670,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Myfuturencinc | $7,000,000 | 7 | 80% |
| North Carolina Museum of History Foundation Inc | $6,720,000 | 9 | 52% |
| North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) | $940,000 | 9 | 1% |
| North Carolina Education Corps | $700,000 | 3 | 20% |
| Public School Forum of Nc Inc | $335,000 | 9 | 3% |
| North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ | $305,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Development Foundation of the Nccat Inc | $270,000 | 9 | 12% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($17M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Goodnight Educational Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 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: Duke Energy Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Belk Foundation · Childtrust Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008 · Truist Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas
How this is measured
Compare The Goodnight Educational Foundation with peer funders
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About The Goodnight Educational Foundation
- How much does The Goodnight Educational Foundation give?
- The Goodnight Educational Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $9,180,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Goodnight Educational Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (62%), Arts & Culture (23%), Employment (10%).
- Who are The Goodnight Educational Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: North Carolina State University Foundation Inc ($28M), Cary Academy ($8.7M), Myfuturencinc ($7.0M).
- Does The Goodnight Educational Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Goodnight Educational 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 Goodnight Educational Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, Triangle Community Foundation Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation.
- Where is The Goodnight Educational Foundation based?
- The Goodnight Educational Foundation is based in NC.
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