North Carolina · Private foundation
The Samuel Ernest Douglass Jr Foundation Inc
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.
- $64k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,551
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,627
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $307k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The Samuel Ernest Douglass Jr Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 | 27 | $64k | 59% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $55k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $44k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $39k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $20k | 92% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $28k | 27% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $30k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc | $17,602 | 7 | 0% |
| Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare | $17,591 | 7 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels Council Inc | $17,500 | 7 | 3% |
| Domestic Violence Shelter and Services Inc | $15,051 | 6 | 0% |
| Eden Village of Wilmington | $10,150 | 4 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $10,125 | 4 | 0% |
| Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry Inc | $10,088 | 4 | 0% |
| The Barnabas Network | $7,577 | 3 | 0% |
| The Carousel Center Inc | $7,575 | 3 | 0% |
| Trevor Project Inc | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($64k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Samuel Ernest Douglass Jr Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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: North Carolina Community Foundation · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · The Landfall Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · The Lagomarsino Foundation · The Myrtle and Rt Sinclair Jr Charitable Foundation Inc · The Rudisill Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Samuel Ernest Douglass Jr Foundation Inc with peer funders
About The Samuel Ernest Douglass Jr Foundation Inc
- How much does The Samuel Ernest Douglass Jr Foundation Inc give?
- The Samuel Ernest Douglass Jr Foundation Inc reported 27 grants totaling $63,991 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Samuel Ernest Douglass Jr Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (16%), Food & Nutrition (13%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are The Samuel Ernest Douglass Jr Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ($18k), Lower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare ($18k), Meals on Wheels Council Inc ($18k).
- Does The Samuel Ernest Douglass Jr Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Samuel Ernest Douglass Jr Foundation Inc 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 Samuel Ernest Douglass Jr Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Carolina Community Foundation, New Hanover Community Endowment Inc, The Landfall Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Samuel Ernest Douglass Jr Foundation Inc based?
- The Samuel Ernest Douglass Jr Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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