North Carolina · Private foundation
Yusko Family 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.
- $248k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Yusko Family Foundation 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; $7k 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 | 34 | $233k | 41% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $65k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $85k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $109k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $128k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $76k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $86k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $77k | 32% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table Ministries Inc | $164,000 | 8 | 2% |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $37,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Duke University | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Book Harvest | $24,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Porch Inc | $22,000 | 6 | 16% |
| Marian Cheek Jackson Center | $21,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Habitat for Humanity Orange County NC Inc | $17,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels Orange County Nc | $16,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Downtown Women's Center | $16,500 | 4 | 0% |
| First Graduate | $16,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($323k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Yusko Family 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Strowd Roses Inc · Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Carlson Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Shared Visions Foundation Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · Carolinas Credit Union Foundation · Duke University
How this is measured
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About Yusko Family Foundation
- How much does Yusko Family Foundation give?
- Yusko Family Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $248,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Yusko Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (24%), Education (20%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are Yusko Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Table Ministries Inc ($164k), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($37k), Duke University ($30k).
- Does Yusko Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Yusko Family 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 Yusko Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc, Strowd Roses Inc.
- Where is Yusko Family Foundation based?
- Yusko Family Foundation is based in NC.
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