North Carolina · Private foundation
Tri-County Telephone Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $57k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $14,189
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 48
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $893k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 53% of the organizations Tri-County Telephone Foundation 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; $28k 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 | 11 | $57k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $69k | 53% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $39k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $34k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $55k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $52k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 48 | $72k | 92% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $56k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Pregnancy Center | $40,180 | 4 | 10% |
| Pungo Christian Academy | $35,337 | 6 | 1% |
| Wilkinson Community Event Center | $24,656 | 4 | 3% |
| Open Door Community Center | $23,300 | 5 | 7% |
| Bath High School Preservation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Washington-Beaufort County Chamber of Commerce | $6,890 | 4 | 1% |
| The Historic Bath Foundation Inc | $6,600 | 1 | 10% |
| Eagles Wings Christian Love in Action | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ruths House | $4,100 | 2 | 0% |
| Beaufort Hyde Partnership for Children | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($254k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Tri-County Telephone 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: Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Jonathan Havens Charitable Trust 4242 Six Forks Road · Beaufort County United Way Inc · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Tri-County Telephone Foundation
- How much does Tri-County Telephone Foundation give?
- Tri-County Telephone Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $56,684 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Tri-County Telephone Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Health (14%), Community Improvement (7%).
- Who are Tri-County Telephone Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Coastal Pregnancy Center ($40k), Pungo Christian Academy ($35k), Wilkinson Community Event Center ($25k).
- Does Tri-County Telephone Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tri-County Telephone Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tri-County Telephone Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation, The Cannon Foundation Inc.
- Where is Tri-County Telephone Foundation based?
- Tri-County Telephone Foundation is based in NC.
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