North Carolina · Private foundation
W Trent Ragland 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2025
- 69
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 69
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $355k 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 | 68 | $1.2M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 69 | $1.1M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $718k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 68 | $1.0M | 57% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $760k | 97% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $771k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saint Marys School | $1,403,436 | 6 | 4% |
| Elizabeth Vann Moore Foundation | $654,220 | 4 | 58% |
| North Carolina Museum of History Foundation Inc | $251,800 | 4 | 6% |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Rex Healthcare Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 5% |
| North Carolina State University Foundation Inc | $145,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Woodberry Forest School | $125,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Triangle Sports Commission | $115,000 | 3 | 11% |
| The Raleigh Rescue Mission Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Carolina Ballet Inc | $107,500 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 85 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($627k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 79 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · North Carolina Community Foundation · John William Pope Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Hillsdale Fund · Duke University Health System Inc · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation · Bell Cook Family Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation
- How much does W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation give?
- W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $1,158,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 69 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Arts & Culture (16%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Saint Marys School ($1.4M), Elizabeth Vann Moore Foundation ($654k), North Carolina Museum of History Foundation Inc ($252k).
- Does W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does W Trent Ragland 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 W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation, North Carolina Community Foundation.
- Where is W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation based?
- W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation is based in NC.
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