North Carolina · Private foundation
The Providence Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $181k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
- 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 Providence Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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 | 13 | $181k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $284k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $127k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $107k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $294k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $99k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $105k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $288k | 47% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Hope Foundation Inc | $474,928 | 7 | 0% |
| Water Missions International | $155,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Faces and Voices of Recovery(Favor) Upstate Sc | $130,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Accessible Hope International | $103,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $75,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Foundation for Tomorrow Inc | $67,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Project Host Inc | $30,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Clemson University Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Free the Kids Inc | $29,310 | 3 | 0% |
| Cross Catholic Outreach Inc | $25,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($483k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Providence Foundation supplied at peak.
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: Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Greenville County Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Scansource Charitable Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · Neill M Timmons Foundation · AWT Family Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · John I Smith Charities Inc
How this is measured
About The Providence Foundation
- How much does The Providence Foundation give?
- The Providence Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $181,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Providence Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), International (25%), Education (12%).
- Who are The Providence Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Project Hope Foundation Inc ($475k), Water Missions International ($155k), Faces and Voices of Recovery(Favor) Upstate Sc ($130k).
- Does The Providence Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Providence Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Providence Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, United Way of Greenville County Inc, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is The Providence Foundation based?
- The Providence Foundation is based in NC.
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