Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

71
foundations with a Chapel Hill address
$73.5M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
11
say they accept unsolicited
$10,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 71 foundations that gave a Chapel Hill, North Carolina address on their tax filing — 67 private foundations and 4 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $73.5 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 11 of them (15%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Chapel Hill foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 71 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The Morehead-Cain FoundationAccepts$27,344$14.9M$23–$4.7MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
D Michael Warner-Elizabeth CravenAccepts$125,000$1.1M$100,000–$854,393FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Margaret T Petrie FoundationAccepts$20,000$923,978$5,000–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Klapper Family Foundation IncAccepts$20,000$807,928$2,500–$270,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Ireland Family FoundationAccepts$523,600$591,500$455,699–$591,500FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Bertsch Family Charitable Foundation IncAccepts$6,000$517,500$2,500–$26,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Strowd Roses IncAccepts$5,000$246,567$221–$106,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Marjorie Merriweather Post FoundationAccepts$115,007$230,013$13–$230,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Nancy A Wright Foundation IncAccepts$10,000$168,000$3,000–$75,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Ann Ludington SullivanAccepts$2,000$55,068$500–$8,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Neal Kay Foundation Charitable TRAccepts$555$11,031$5–$3,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The School of Government Foundation IncPublic foundationNot stated$5.2MOver $5k only$4.8M$4.8M–$5.6MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
East Chapel Hill Rotary Club FoundationGrantmaking charityNot stated$6,625Over $5k only$117,146$5,000–$59,970FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Healing Justice ProjectPublic foundationNot stated$18,646Over $5k only$112,566$4,256–$71,019FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Chapel Hill Public Library FoundationPublic foundationNot stated$43,000Over $5k only$46,000$40,000–$46,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Bill & Peggy Britt Foundation IncInvitation only$2M$25M$1M–$5MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The William R Kenan Jr FundInvitation only$3.8M$3.8M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Randleigh FoundationInvitation only$40,000$2.8M$5,000–$338,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Bryson Foundation LimitedInvitation only$5,000$2.1M$500–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The William R Kenan Jr Fund for ArtsInvitation only$1.9M$1.9M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The William R Kenan Jr Fund forInvitation only$1.9M$1.9M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The William R Kenan Jr Fund for EthicsInvitation only$1.3M$1.3M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Robert B & Janet A Hoffman FoundationInvitation only$1,000$1.2M$50–$1MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Carlson Family FoundationInvitation only$8,750$1.1M$10–$78,568FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Nchsaa Foundation IncInvitation only$1,848$967,173$500–$5,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.
  • A median grant larger than the grants paid is not a mistake: the grant schedule and the year’s total come from different parts of the tax filing, and a foundation can list a grant it approved in a year it paid out less.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.