North Carolina · Private foundation
Thomas B Dameron Jr 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.
- $241k
- Granted FY2022
- 43
- Grants FY2022
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2022
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fd, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 24 organizations, $241k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2022
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $38,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 43
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 10
- Total assets, FY2022
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 17% of the organizations Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 42 | $231k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $249k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $217k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $228k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $155k | 80% |
| 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 2023.
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 FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merrie-Woode Foundation Inc | $130,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $100,000 | 6 | 0% |
| World Impact Inc | $52,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Alliance Medical Ministry Inc | $44,000 | 5 | 1% |
| American Friends Service Committee | $40,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Community Advanced Practice Nursesinc | $39,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Healing Haiti | $38,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Appalachian Voices | $35,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $33,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bent Mountain Center | $30,500 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($309k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · North Carolina Community Foundation · Rebecca J Dameron Foundation · The Baker Family Foundation Inc · Replogle Family Foundation · Bell Cook Family Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc
How this is measured
About Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation
- How much does Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation give?
- Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $240,500 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (67%), Health (6%), Youth Development (5%).
- Who are Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Merrie-Woode Foundation Inc ($131k), Feed My Starving Children Inc ($100k), World Impact Inc ($52k).
- Does Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thomas B Dameron Jr 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 Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation, A E Finley Foundation Inc.
- Where is Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation based?
- Thomas B Dameron Jr Foundation is based in NC.
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