Ohio · Private foundation
Towering Pines 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.
- $256k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Towering Pines Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 20 | $248k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $210k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $205k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $138k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $160k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $63k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $106k | 56% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $53k | 67% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caring House Inc | $205,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Leadership Edge Incorporated | $76,500 | 6 | 7% |
| University of Michigan | $70,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $35,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Yellowstone Forever | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women | $19,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Durham Academy Inc | $17,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Savannah College of Art and DesignInc | $8,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Readers 2 Leaders | $8,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Samaritan Health Center Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($639k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Towering Pines 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 · Duke University Health System Inc · Duke University · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Fox Family Foundation Inc · Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundation · The Forest At Duke Inc · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Barnes Family Foundation · Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation
How this is measured
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About Towering Pines Foundation
- How much does Towering Pines Foundation give?
- Towering Pines Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $256,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Towering Pines Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (38%), Health (23%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Towering Pines Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Caring House Inc ($206k), Leadership Edge Incorporated ($77k), University of Michigan ($70k).
- Does Towering Pines Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Towering Pines 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 Towering Pines Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Duke University Health System Inc, Duke University.
- Where is Towering Pines Foundation based?
- Towering Pines Foundation is based in OH.
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