North Carolina · Private foundation
The James Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 61
- Grants FY2025
- 63
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $265,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 63
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations The James Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k 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 | 61 | $1.3M | 23% |
| FY2024 | 63 | $1.1M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $1.0M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $1.1M | 7% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $1.2M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $926k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wofford College | $780,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Charlotte Neuroscience Foundation DBA Memory and Movement Charlotte | $550,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Wing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary | $425,000 | 5 | 11% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $365,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Charlotte Country Day School | $170,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation | $125,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Teach for America Inc | $116,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Nourish Up | $100,827 | 5 | 0% |
| Crisis Assistance Ministry | $100,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Tostan Inc | $93,690 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 79 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The James Family Foundation Inc 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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · Dowd Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Dickson Foundation Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The James Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The James Family Foundation Inc give?
- The James Family Foundation Inc reported 61 grants totaling $1,304,525 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 63 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The James Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (29%), Education (26%), Health (20%).
- Who are The James Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Wofford College ($780k), Charlotte Neuroscience Foundation DBA Memory and Movement Charlotte ($550k), Wing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary ($425k).
- Does The James Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The James Family Foundation Inc 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 James Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Duke Energy Foundation, The Cannon Foundation Inc.
- Where is The James Family Foundation Inc based?
- The James Family Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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