· Private foundation
The Kyser 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
- Under $10k11 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMPASS CENTER FOR WOMEN & FAMILIES | $10,000 |
| CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF THE TRIANGLE | $10,000 |
| UNC-TV | $5,000 |
| CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS | $3,000 |
| UNC - CH | $3,000 |
| UNC - CHAPEL HILL DEPARTMENT OF ROMANCE LANGUAGES (ITALIAN) | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY AT UNC - CHAPEL HILL | $3,000 |
| EMPOWERMENT INC | $2,000 |
| ACKLAND ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| THE CHELSEA ART THEATRE INC | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| WCPE RADIO | $500 |
| EL FUTURO | $500 |
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 (FY21–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of The Kyser Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 90%.
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 +66% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TWTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +6%
The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle5× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +353%
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $17k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- J6JANUARY 6 PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -65% · 30% of their budget
CAROLINA ABORTION FUNDone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -7%- CHCHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO NAACPone grant, 2023 · $1k
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 enrich and connect individuals in the greater raleigh community through intimate and exceptional chamber music experiences. we are committed to presenting world class artists performing music of the highest caliber, providing…
The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.
Provide relevant educational and entertaining opportunities within the region that exceed customer expectations, while preserving our community's vibrant cultural history.
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
To produce volunteer-based theatrical events in the Charlotte, NC region.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The Carolina Theatre welcomes everyone. We enrich the experience of audiences through programming that drives the cultural, educational, and economic vitality of the region.
In collaboration with the legal community, NCEAJF empowers North Carolinians to navigate the civil justice system.
Levine Museum's mission is to connect the past to the future to realize the promises of a New South through exhibits that explore complex chapters in the region's history and programs that launch dialogue, foster empathy, and build an…
To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…
Provides immigration legal services to persons who are otherwise financially incapable of obtaining such services.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 29 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 THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds EL FUTURO INC ↗
- Who funds CHELSEA ART THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds JANUARY 6 PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA ABORTION FUND ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD HALL ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds VINALHAVEN LAND TRUST 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kyser Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kyser Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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