North Carolina · Public charity
Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake Forest College; the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; the School of Law; the School of Medicine;…
- $162M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 117
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 77
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $17M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,346,455
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 77
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 38
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 61% of the organizations Wake Forest University funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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 | 111 | $16M | 56% |
| FY2024 | 77 | $6.2M | 61% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $4.2M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $4.6M | 67% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $3.1M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $2.2M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $1.8M | 61% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $735k | 22% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wake Forest University Health Sciences | $6,938,653 | 7 | 0% |
| Reynolda House Inc | $5,903,811 | 9 | 24% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $3,534,506 | 7 | n/a |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | $1,297,423 | 3 | n/a |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $1,220,071 | 8 | n/a |
| Rutgers the State University | $590,165 | 5 | n/a |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | $587,977 | 3 | n/a |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $580,994 | 6 | 0% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $555,761 | 4 | n/a |
| Montclair State University | $522,500 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 221 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Wake Forest University supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 146 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: National Collegiate Athletic Association · AIDS United · Emory University · Reynolds American Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Twin City Development Foundation · North Carolina Baptist Hospital · Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · American Council of Learned Societies · Foundation for the Carolinas · Triangle Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Wake Forest University
- How much does Wake Forest University give?
- Wake Forest University reported 117 itemized grants totaling $17,210,416, out of $161,601,582 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 77 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Wake Forest University fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (47%), Health (22%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Wake Forest University's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wake Forest University Health Sciences ($6.9M), Reynolda House Inc ($5.9M), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($3.5M).
- Does Wake Forest University fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wake Forest University?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Collegiate Athletic Association, AIDS United, Emory University.
- Where is Wake Forest University based?
- Wake Forest University is based in NC.
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