How much does The Midgard Foundation give?

The Midgard Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $274,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Midgard Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (23%), Crime & Legal (17%), Education (16%).

Who are The Midgard Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Pisgah Legal Services ($283k), Manna Food Bank Inc ($178k), Asheville Art Museum Association Inc ($130k).

Does The Midgard Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Midgard Foundation 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 Midgard Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc, Dogwood Health Trust, The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc.

Where is The Midgard Foundation based?

The Midgard Foundation is based in NC.

Foundation Dossiers

North Carolina · Private foundation

The Midgard 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.

$274k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 22
Grants FY2025: 21
Organizations funded FY2024: 24%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $2,500
Largest grant, FY2025: $125,000
Organizations funded a year: 17 to 23; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 9
Total assets, FY2025: $2.2M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations The Midgard Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Housing & ShelterEducationRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	22	$274k	23%
FY2024	21	$271k	24%
FY2023	17	$176k	35%
FY2022	21	$180k	0%
FY2021	23	$170k	13%
FY2020	21	$135k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$215kCrime & Legal$158kEducation$152kArts & Culture$148kAnimals$95kHousing & Shelter$69kReligion$16kHuman Services$15kOther$0

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
Pisgah Legal Services	$282,500	6	0%
Manna Food Bank Inc	$178,000	6	0%
Asheville Art Museum Association Inc	$130,000	3	1%
Asheville Humane Society Inc	$58,900	6	0%
Beloved Asheville	$53,500	4	1%
Neighbors in Need Inc	$35,000	6	1%
African Aquatic Conservation Fund Inc	$28,000	5	7%
Warren Wilson College	$20,000	2	0%
YWCA Northeastern Massachusetts Inc	$17,500	4	0%
Artis-Naples Inc	$13,500	6	0%

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All grantees of The Midgard Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Pisgah Legal Services	$282,500	6	0%
Manna Food Bank Inc	$178,000	6	0%
Asheville Art Museum Association Inc	$130,000	3	1%
Asheville Humane Society Inc	$58,900	6	0%
Beloved Asheville	$53,500	4	1%
Neighbors in Need Inc	$35,000	6	1%
African Aquatic Conservation Fund Inc	$28,000	5	7%
Warren Wilson College	$20,000	2	0%
YWCA Northeastern Massachusetts Inc	$17,500	4	0%
Artis-Naples Inc	$13,500	6	0%
First Congregational Church of Old Lyme	$13,000	4	n/a
New London Homeless Hospitality Center	$11,000	3	0%
Animal-Kind International	$10,500	6	2%
The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee	$8,600	6	0%
Asheville City Schools Foundation Inc	$8,000	2	0%
Paws to Peaks Rescue LLC	$7,500	3	n/a
MemoryCare Inc	$5,500	6	0%
Journeymen Inc	$4,500	3	2%
Open Doors of Asheville Inc	$3,500	1	0%
Western Carolina Rescue Ministries Inc	$3,000	1	0%
Haywood Street Congregation	$2,500	1	n/a
Racer X Cycling	$2,000	2	n/a
Salt Marsh Opera Company	$2,000	1	n/a
Golisano Children's Museum of Naples Inc	$1,500	3	0%
Friends of Strays Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Colorado Mountain Bike Association	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($303k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Midgard Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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.

Richard Eckerd Foundation IncNC17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn · The Goodman Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Midgard Foundation

How much does The Midgard Foundation give?: The Midgard Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $274,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Midgard Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (23%), Crime & Legal (17%), Education (16%).
Who are The Midgard Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Pisgah Legal Services ($283k), Manna Food Bank Inc ($178k), Asheville Art Museum Association Inc ($130k).
Does The Midgard Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Midgard Foundation 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 Midgard Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc, Dogwood Health Trust, The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc.
Where is The Midgard Foundation based?: The Midgard Foundation is based in NC.