North Carolina · Private foundation
The Joanna Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $46k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $39k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 29
- FY2022 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $790k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations The Joanna Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $39k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $39k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $36k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighter Way Foundation | $16,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of Montgomery County Animals Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Red Wiggler Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wilmington Animal Centrix | $3,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Port City Community Church | $2,750 | 3 | n/a |
| Stepping Forward Ministries | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Humane World for Animals International | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Greyhound Friends of North Carolina Inc | $1,150 | 2 | 1% |
| Bayside Service Dogs | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighter Way Foundation | $16,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Friends of Montgomery County Animals Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Red Wiggler Foundation Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wilmington Animal Centrix | $3,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Port City Community Church | $2,750 | 3 | n/a |
| Stepping Forward Ministries | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Humane World for Animals International | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Greyhound Friends of North Carolina Inc | $1,150 | 2 | 1% |
| Bayside Service Dogs | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Elm School PTO | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Dupage Children's Museum | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church | $300 | 1 | n/a |
| Humane World for Animals Inc | $200 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($69k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Joanna Foundation 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: Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Joanna Foundation
- How much does The Joanna Foundation give?
- The Joanna Foundation reported 17 itemized grants totaling $38,601, out of $45,601 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 29 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
- What does The Joanna Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (23%), Animals (15%), Human Services (2%).
- Who are The Joanna Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Brighter Way Foundation ($17k), Friends of Montgomery County Animals Inc ($6k), Red Wiggler Foundation Inc ($4k).
- Does The Joanna Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Joanna Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Joanna Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Network for Good, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Joanna Foundation based?
- The Joanna Foundation is based in NC.
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