C Hamilton Sloan Foundation
Raleigh, NC · EIN 56-1870847. Reported 252 grants totalling $2,441,000 to 76 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. C Hamilton Sloan Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $80,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YMCA of the Triangle Area | Suite, NC | $245,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Wake County | Raleigh, NC | $219,533 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Coastal Carolina | Morehead City, NC | $215,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Salvation Army of Carteret County | Morehead City, NC | $160,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Band Together | Raleigh, NC | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc | Raleigh, NC | $94,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America Occoneechee | Raleigh, NC | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St David's School | Raleigh, NC | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Green Chair Project | Raleigh, NC | $65,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Carteret Community College Foundation | Morehead City, NC | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hope Mission | Morehead City, NC | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| North Carolina Wildlife Federation | Raleigh, NC | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Keys Children's Foundation | Key Largo, FL | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nc Symphony | Raleigh, NC | $53,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ocean Reef Community Foundation | Key Largo, FL | $47,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Broad Street Clinic Foundation | Morehead City, NC | $41,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Carolina Ballet | Raleigh, NC | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Family Promise of Carteret County | Morehead City, NC | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Healing Transitions | Raleigh, NC | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nc Museum of Natural Sciences | Raleigh, NC | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Urban Ministries of Wake County | Raleigh, NC | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wake Med Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Nc Maritime Museum | Beaufort, NC | $38,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Carteret Health Care Foundation | Morehead City, NC | $36,667 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Beaufort Historical Association | Beaufort, NC | $27,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nc Museum of History Associates | Raleigh, NC | $26,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| North Carolina Marine & Estuary Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| St Paul's Episcopal Church | Beaufort, NC | $21,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Central Carolina | Sanford, NC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Sanford | Sanford, NC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hearts and Hands for Haiti | Raleigh, NC | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lucy Daniels Center | Cary, NC | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Maritime Heritage Foundation of Beaufort | Beaufort, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Samaritan's Purse | Boone, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sound Rivers - Lower Neuse Riverkeeper | New Bern, NC | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Nature Conservancy | Durham, NC | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Aldert Root Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $16,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ocean Reef Cultural Center | Key Largo, FL | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ocean Reef Medical Center Foundation | Key Largo, FL | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Step Up Ministry | Raleigh, NC | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Salvation Army of Wake County | Raleigh, NC | $14,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nc Museum of Art | Raleigh, NC | $12,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ocean Reef Chapel Foundation | Key Largo, FL | $12,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Crystal Coast Hospice House | Newport, NC | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Historic Beaufort Foundation | Beaufort, SC | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Red Cross of Coastal Carolina | New Bern, NC | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Contemporary Art Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nc Zoological Society | Asheboro, NC | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle | Raleigh, NC | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Beaufort Historical Foundation | Beaufort, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coast Guard Foundation | Stonington, CT | $5,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Stepup Ministry | Raleigh, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope Clinic | Bayboro, NC | $4,800 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ieca Foundation | Fairfax, VA | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | Topsham, ME | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mystic Seaport | Mystic, CT | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Cathedral School | Washington, DC | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Maritime Historical Society | Peekskill, NY | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nc Special Olympics | Raleigh, NC | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Neighbor to Neighbor | Raleigh, NC | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rhodes College | Memphis, TN | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United Arts Council of Raleigh | Raleigh, NC | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Herreshoff Marine Museum | Bristol, RI | $3,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Amigos De Las Americas | Houston, TX | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Sea Education Association | Woods Hole, MA | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Triangle Land Conservancy | Research Triangle Park, NC | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Young Life Crystal Coast | Beaufort, NC | $3,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Core Sound Waterfowl Museum | Harkers Island, NC | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs | Atlanta, GA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Take a Kid Fishing Foundation | Morehead City, NC | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Olivia Strong Foundation | Matthews, NC | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Unc Center for Public Tv | Research Triangle Park, NC | $1,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Southwestern Montana YMCA | Dillon, MT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Andrews School | Middletown, DE | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Frankie Lemmon Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
66 of 76 (87%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 91%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- YMCA of the Triangle Area
SUPPORT CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES - North Carolina Marine & Estuary Foundation
SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE MARINE RESOURCES AND HABITATS - Core Sound Waterfowl Museum
EDUCATION AND PRESERVATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 119 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 67 | $686,233 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 67 | $621,700 | $5,000 |
| 2023 | 62 | $551,200 | $5,000 |
| 2024 | 56 | $581,867 | $5,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 92% of this one's giving went to organizations in North Carolina. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in North Carolina.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from C Hamilton Sloan Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 821 Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, NC, 27604. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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