North Carolina · Private foundation
The Mary Norris Preyer Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $191k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Mary Norris Preyer Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k 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 | 40 | $191k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $185k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $195k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $219k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $200k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $225k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $229k | 65% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $201k | 70% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Contingent | $49,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Young Life | $46,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Blue Water Foundation | $32,500 | 6 | 12% |
| Charlotte Bilingual Learning Center | $32,500 | 6 | 1% |
| The Greenway Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Environmental Federation of North Carolina Inc Dba Earthshare Nc | $29,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Senior Pharmassist Inc | $28,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Real Options for City Kids | $26,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $26,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Inter-Faith Council for Social Service Inc | $26,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 131 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($316k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Mary Norris Preyer Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 119 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Hillsdale Fund · Womens Impact Fund · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc
How this is measured
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About The Mary Norris Preyer Fund
- How much does The Mary Norris Preyer Fund give?
- The Mary Norris Preyer Fund reported 40 grants totaling $190,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Mary Norris Preyer Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (16%), Health (13%), Environment (11%).
- Who are The Mary Norris Preyer Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Contingent ($50k), Young Life ($47k), Blue Water Foundation ($33k).
- Does The Mary Norris Preyer Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Mary Norris Preyer Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Mary Norris Preyer Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, The Leon Levine Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas.
- Where is The Mary Norris Preyer Fund based?
- The Mary Norris Preyer Fund is based in NC.
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