· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k10 grants · $230k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $410k
- $250k+8 grants · $8.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NC MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| CARY ACADEMY | $1,090,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NC MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES | $1,050,000 |
| PBS NORTH CAROLINA | $1,000,000 |
| NC MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| NC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| MYFUTURENC INC | $1,000,000 |
| NCSU FOUNDATION INC | $400,000 |
| THE YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA | $100,000 |
| NC BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUCATION | $60,000 |
| UNC AT CHAPEL HILL - PUBLIC RADIO WUNC | $50,000 |
| PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC | $50,000 |
| EDUCATIONNC | $50,000 |
| NC SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| PUBLIC ED WORKS | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $28M · revenue +232%
CARY ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $8.7M · revenue +24%- MMYFUTURENCINC7× · 2019–2025 · $7.0M · revenue +203% · 80% of their budget
Funded once
- NCNC COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $1.0M
- FOFRIENDS OF NC STATE MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $450k
- HCHOKE COUNTY SCHOOLSone grant, 2018 · $250k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To advocate for members and students, to enhance the education profession, and to advance public education.
To support public school adminisrators in north carolina through services in communications, professional development, and public policy.
Operation of a public charter school.
North carolina charter educational foundation is a north carolina not-for-profit entity organized exclusively for educational purposes. the foundation is comprised of respected leaders in the state of north carolina who are committed to…
The nccee provides economic and financial education for educators and students throughout north carolina. this mission is accomplished through standards based workshops and a variety of resources for educators, academic competitions for…
NCAIS promotes educational excellence and empowers member schools to thrive in pursuit of their missions. Our core commitments are to provide leading-edge educational opportunities communities of colleagues guidance in school leadership…
Great schools north carolina (gsnc) was founded to remove barriers to success for both existing and new public charter schools across the state. gsnc supports leaders with strategic funding and collaborative partnerships to increase access…
The north carolina leadership academy provides its k-12 students with a solid foundation of skills, knowledge, and information as part of their college preparatory program. additionally, ncla seeks the acceptance of all high school…
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…
To provide basic necessities for public school children as well as improving parenting skills in order for the children to be successful in school and to expand professional development opportunities for educators.
Ncaeyc promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. we advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on…
How this is measured
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MYFUTURENCINC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION OF THE NCCAT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LATINX EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EDUCATIONNC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT U ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SOCIETY OF HISPANIC PROFESSIONALS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WAKE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ED WORKS ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLEASANT GROVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Goodnight Educational Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Goodnight Educational Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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