North Carolina · Private foundation
The Lovett Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $78k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $28,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 27
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations The Lovett Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 | 24 | $78k | 58% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $75k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $76k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $87k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $69k | 55% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $73k | 74% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $62k | 71% |
| FY2017 | 24 | $62k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bookmarks Inc | $77,500 | 8 | 1% |
| The Summit School Incorporated | $42,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Wake Forest University | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem Inc | $37,399 | 3 | 5% |
| City With Dwellings Community First Initiative | $27,000 | 5 | 2% |
| LEAD Girls of NC Inc | $16,600 | 5 | 1% |
| Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc | $12,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Transplanting Traditions Community Farm | $12,339 | 3 | 1% |
| Arts For Life | $12,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Dance Project Inc | $10,495 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Lovett Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · James G Hanes Memorial Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Kooken Family Foundation · Carolinas Credit Union Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas
How this is measured
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About The Lovett Foundation
- How much does The Lovett Foundation give?
- The Lovett Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $78,390 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Lovett Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Arts & Culture (28%), Housing & Shelter (15%).
- Who are The Lovett Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bookmarks Inc ($78k), The Summit School Incorporated ($42k), Wake Forest University ($40k).
- Does The Lovett Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lovett Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lovett Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Winston-Salem Foundation, Reynolds American Foundation, Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation.
- Where is The Lovett Foundation based?
- The Lovett Foundation is based in NC.
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