Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Charlotte, North Carolina

232
foundations with a Charlotte address
$1.57B
grants paid, FY2023–FY2025
47
say they accept unsolicited
$10,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 232 foundations that gave a Charlotte, North Carolina address on their tax filing — 209 private foundations and 23 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2023–FY2025. Together they paid out $1.57 billion in grants in their latest filing year, and 47 of them (20%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Charlotte 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 232 foundations

All 25 foundations below say on their 990-PF that they accept unsolicited requests. Another 22 in this list say so too. Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing.

Foundations in Charlotte, North Carolina
The Duke Endowment$200,000$251.2M$5,000–$21.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc$216.3M$216.3M—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Leon Levine Foundation$60,000$57.9M$10,000–$2.1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Duke Energy Foundation$25,000$25.6M$2,500–$14.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Merancas Foundation Inc$60,000$16.2M$5,000–$2MFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Ally Charitable Foundation$20,000$6.9M$2,500–$1MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Dickson Foundation Inc$2,000$3.8M$1,000–$301,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Albemarle Foundation$734$3.7M$10–$1.4MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Greg and India Keith Foundation$25,000$2.5M$1,000–$830,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Syla Foundation$2.3M$2.5M$2.2M–$2.5MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Richmond Community Foundation$52,500$1.7M$1,500–$477,334FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Lucille P & Edward C Giles Foundation$25,000$1.2M$5,000–$130,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc$7,750$1M$1,500–$75,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Live Love Serve Foundation$5,800$429,800$277–$100,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Marsh Foundation Inc$4,000$408,000$500–$100,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Dalton-Brand Foundation Inc$10,000$326,000$1,000–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
John C Markey Charitable Fund$55,000$300,000$40,000–$150,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
King Family Foundation$10,000$258,006$3,000–$100,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Providence Foundation$10,000$181,000$2,500–$78,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Alex Hemby Foundation$2,500$174,000$500–$150,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Ligon Contemporary Art Foundation$150,825$150,825—FY2023Locked: fit score and contacts
Gee Family Foundation$4,000$148,502$1–$37,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Foundation$25,000$147,000$10,000–$45,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable$1,000$121,000$300–$9,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Kinley Foundation$50,000$120,000$20,000–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from the 990-PF grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2023–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.