North Carolina · Private foundation
The Story Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $302k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Story Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 19 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $29k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $32k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $33k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $30k | 21% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $26,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Steps to Hope Inc | $17,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Meeting Place One Inc | $17,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Polk County Historical Association Inc | $17,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Smile Train Inc | $13,000 | 9 | 0% |
| It Is Written Inc | $8,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Voice of Prophecy | $8,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Manna Food Bank Inc | $8,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Hendersonville Rescue Mission | $8,500 | 9 | 0% |
| In Touch Ministries Inc | $8,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $26,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Steps to Hope Inc | $17,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Meeting Place One Inc | $17,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Polk County Historical Association Inc | $17,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Smile Train Inc | $13,000 | 9 | 0% |
| It Is Written Inc | $8,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Voice of Prophecy | $8,800 | 9 | 0% |
| Manna Food Bank Inc | $8,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Hendersonville Rescue Mission | $8,500 | 9 | 0% |
| In Touch Ministries Inc | $8,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Adventist Development & Relief Agency International | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Foothills Humane Society Inc | $7,500 | 8 | 0% |
| House of Flags Museum Inc | $4,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Carolina Foothills Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($108k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Story 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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Story Foundation Inc
- How much does The Story Foundation Inc give?
- The Story Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $30,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Story Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (35%), Health (28%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are The Story Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($26k), Steps to Hope Inc ($18k), The Meeting Place One Inc ($17k).
- Does The Story Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Story Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Story Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, Duke Energy Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Story Foundation Inc based?
- The Story Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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