How much does Wakemed give?

Wakemed reported 25 itemized grants totaling $2,302,157, out of $2,446,070 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Wakemed fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (55%), Human Services (37%), Recreation & Sports (2%).

Who are Wakemed's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wake County Human Services ($6.4M), Alliance Medical Ministry Inc ($3.2M), Wake County Medical Society ($2.2M).

Does Wakemed fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Wakemed?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Duke University Health System Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation.

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North Carolina · Public charity

Wakemed

The mission of WAKEMED is to improve the health and well-being of our community with outstanding and compassionate care to all.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 25
Itemized grants FY2025: 22
Organizations funded FY2024: 18%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $2.3M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $883,417
Organizations funded a year: 14 to 22; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $2.2B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Wakemed funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	24	$2.3M	21%
FY2024	22	$2.1M	18%
FY2023	21	$2.0M	19%
FY2022	18	$1.9M	28%
FY2021	14	$1.6M	21%
FY2020	18	$1.9M	22%
FY2019	22	$1.8M	18%
FY2018	19	$1.7M	16%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$8.3MHuman Services$5.6MRecreation & Sports$301kArts & Culture$287kEducation$275kFood & Nutrition$165kCrime & Legal$90kYouth Development$58kOther$0

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 County Human Services	$6,351,614	9	n/a
Alliance Medical Ministry Inc	$3,196,627	9	23%
Wake County Medical Society	$2,200,000	8	n/a
Debnam Clinic	$1,507,538	9	n/a
Wakemed	$565,468	9	n/a
American Heart Association Inc	$502,761	8	0%
Healing Transitions Inc	$502,500	4	1%
C3HealthcareRx	$335,817	1	n/a
Capital Area Soccer League Inc	$304,250	6	0%
Marbles Kids Museum	$235,000	7	1%

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All grantees of Wakemed by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Wake County Human Services	$6,351,614	9	n/a
Alliance Medical Ministry Inc	$3,196,627	9	23%
Wake County Medical Society	$2,200,000	8	n/a
Debnam Clinic	$1,507,538	9	n/a
Wakemed	$565,468	9	n/a
American Heart Association Inc	$502,761	8	0%
Healing Transitions Inc	$502,500	4	1%
C3HealthcareRx	$335,817	1	n/a
Capital Area Soccer League Inc	$304,250	6	0%
Marbles Kids Museum	$235,000	7	1%
Wake Technical Community College Foundation	$221,500	3	3%
The Aphasia Project	$150,000	5	17%
The Family Violence Prevention Center Inc	$145,000	4	1%
Raleigh School of Nurse Anesthesia	$142,215	3	44%
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc	$138,016	7	0%
Urban Ministries of Wake County Inc	$108,660	9	0%
The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)	$74,000	4	0%
North Carolina Physicians Health Program Inc	$65,000	5	1%
March of Dimes Inc	$57,000	7	0%
Nciap Medical Care Inc	$56,600	5	2%
North Carolina Veterans Foundation	$50,000	1	14%
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro	$47,405	1	n/a
Inter-Faith Food Shuttle	$40,000	5	0%
Linknica	$40,000	4	n/a
Pretty in Pink Foundation Inc	$37,100	3	0%
Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines Inc	$32,466	3	0%
Interfaith Food Shuttle	$30,500	2	n/a
North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation	$29,860	3	0%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Triangle	$25,850	4	0%
Foundation of Hope for Research and Treatment of Mental Illness	$25,040	3	0%
Triangle Sports Commission	$25,000	1	14%
Casa	$25,000	1	0%
Lung Cancer Initiative	$24,950	3	1%
Girl Scouts of Nc Coastal Pines Inc	$22,500	3	n/a
NeighborHealth Center Inc	$20,000	1	1%
North Carolina Spinal Cord Injury Association	$17,500	2	n/a
Cary Downtown Farmers Market	$13,000	2	8%
East Coast Greenway Alliance Inc	$12,000	1	1%
American Cancer Society Inc	$10,500	1	0%
Downtown Raleigh Alliance Inc	$10,000	1	0%
North Carolina Chamber Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Me Fine Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Occoneechee Council Inc Boy Scouts of America #421	$9,600	1	0%
Town of Cary	$7,500	1	n/a
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Oak City Cares Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Band Together	$7,050	1	1%
Breakthrough T1d	$6,000	1	0%
Crabtree Rotary Foundation	$5,980	1	n/a
Wake Education Partnership	$5,750	1	0%
North Carolina Healthcare Foundation Inc	$5,150	1	n/a

Wakemed supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.

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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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC37.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Rex Hospital Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · W Trent Ragland Jr Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Credit Suisse Americas Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Bell Schaefer Family Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Wakemed

How much does Wakemed give?: Wakemed reported 25 itemized grants totaling $2,302,157, out of $2,446,070 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Wakemed fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (55%), Human Services (37%), Recreation & Sports (2%).
Who are Wakemed's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wake County Human Services ($6.4M), Alliance Medical Ministry Inc ($3.2M), Wake County Medical Society ($2.2M).
Does Wakemed fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Wakemed?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Duke University Health System Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation.
Where is Wakemed based?: Wakemed is based in NC.