Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Durham, North Carolina

60
foundations with a Durham address
$131.4M
grants paid, FY2022–FY2025
18
say they accept unsolicited
$10,000
median grant

Grantlas lists 60 foundations that gave a Durham, North Carolina address on their tax filing — 54 private foundations and 6 grantmaking charities such as community foundations and United Ways — from filings for FY2022–FY2025. Together they paid out $131.4 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 18 of them (30%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Durham 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 60 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 Durham, North Carolina
Burroughs Wellcome FundAccepts$38.8M$39.9M$37.7M–$39.9MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc FoundationAccepts$23M$24.6M$21.4M–$24.6MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
North Carolina GskAccepts$74,364$2.8M$40,000–$616,961FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Nc IdeaAccepts$5,000$2.6M$240–$65,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Mary Duke Biddle FoundationAccepts$15,000$1.5M$2,500–$275,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Nipera IncAccepts$10,622$622,877$91–$112,520FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Fox Family Foundation IncAccepts$18,750$523,000$750–$40,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
William Dewitt Charitable FoundationAccepts$295,000$295,000—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Abauman Family FoundationAccepts$25,000$229,000$4,000–$150,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Evelyn D Schmidt Charitable TrustAccepts$12,000$206,000$1,000–$22,500FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Charles Russell Wellons FoundationAccepts$3,100$194,865$200–$76,765FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Durham Sports Club Scholarship FoundatioAccepts$7,000$148,000$500–$14,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Silverback Foundation IncAccepts$2,000$133,200$500–$25,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Brian J Vosburgh Charitable TrustAccepts$2,250$87,964$105–$30,074FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Redwoods Group Foundation IncAccepts$3,750$43,741$1,500–$27,741FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Twelve Labours Foundation IncAccepts$25,000$25,000—FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Knott Family Foundation IncAccepts$100$14,450$50–$10,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Wolfspeed One Pack Emergency FundAccepts$2,000$6,500$500–$2,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Triangle Community Foundation IncCommunity foundationNot stated$18,000Over $5k only$29M$5,092–$1.6MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
United Way of the Greater Triangle IncFederationNot stated$40,603Over $5k only$6.5M$5,510–$427,548FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Kathrine R Everett Charitable James McGregor Everett TrusteePublic foundationNot stated$825,000Over $5k only$1.6MOne amountFY2023Locked: fit score and contacts
The United Methodist Retirement Homes IncGrantmaking charityNot stated—Over $5k only$605,107—FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
ASE Education and Research Foundation IncPublic foundationNot stated$25,000Over $5k only$261,570One amountFY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The United Methodist Retirement Homes Foundation IncGrantmaking charityNot stated$62,125Over $5k only$72,397$55,266–$68,984FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Laughing Gull FoundationInvitation only$50,000$6.1M$125–$160,000FY2024Locked: 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.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2022–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.