North Carolina · Private foundation
Wren Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $86k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 30
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $558k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Wren Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 | 16 | $86k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $166k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $165k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $157k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $220k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $206k | n/a |
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unc Health Foundation Inc | $290,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Mary Baldwin University | $170,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Carolina | $60,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc | $47,400 | 6 | 0% |
| Town of Siler City | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Christ School Inc | $28,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Chatham County Economic Development Corporation | $25,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Chatham County Literacy Council Inc | $16,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Chatham Cares Community Pharmacy | $12,500 | 3 | 4% |
| High Point University | $8,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($268k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Wren Foundation Inc 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 Energy Foundation · Galloway Ridge Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of Chatham County · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Wren Foundation Inc
- How much does Wren Foundation Inc give?
- Wren Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $86,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 30 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Wren Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (39%), Health (21%), Education (20%).
- Who are Wren Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Unc Health Foundation Inc ($290k), Mary Baldwin University ($170k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Carolina ($60k).
- Does Wren Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Wren Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Wren Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Duke Energy Foundation, Galloway Ridge Inc.
- Where is Wren Foundation Inc based?
- Wren Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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