Alamance Community Foundation
Burlington, NC · EIN 82-3275373. Reported 135 grants totalling $3,953,985 to 68 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Alamance Community Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 68 distinct organizations, with 18% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 60% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $11,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,950 and $24,200; the smallest was $5,018 and the largest $706,065. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blessed Sacrament Church | Burlington, NC | $706,065 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Burlington First Presbyterian Church Child Development Center in | Burlington, NC | $566,042 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Elon University | Elon, NC | $373,829 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Young Life | Colorado Spgs, CO | $283,650 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alamance Community College Foundation Inc | Graham, NC | $244,365 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Residential Treatment Services of Alamance Inc | Burlington, NC | $114,849 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of Graham Recreation and Parks | Graham, NC | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Helping Partners Inc | Burlington, NC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Episcopal Church of the Holy Comforter | Burlington, NC | $89,678 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alamance County Arts Council Inc | Graham, NC | $80,600 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Feed the Hunger Inc | Greensboro, NC | $70,550 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Burlington Community Land Trust | Burlington, NC | $65,296 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Saint Marks Evangelical and Reformed Church Inc | Burlington, NC | $57,150 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Front Street United Methodist Church | Burlington, NC | $53,050 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Be Loud Sophie Foundation | Chapel Hill, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Montessori Community School Inc | Durham, NC | $47,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Center for Community Self-Help | Durham, NC | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| City of Burlington Recreation and Parks | Burlington, NC | $44,357 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Macedonia Evangelical Lutheran Church | Burlington, NC | $42,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Alamance Community & Health Foundation Inc | Greensboro, NC | $41,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Christian & Missionary Alliance | Reynoldsburg, OH | $40,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Donorschoose Org | New York, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Carolina Marine and Estuary Foundation Inc | Raleigh, NC | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New Leaf Society | Burlington, NC | $37,850 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Alamance-Burlington School Systen | Burlington, NC | $34,995 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Margarets School Foundation | Tappahannock, VA | $34,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Alamance Christian School Inc | Graham, NC | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United Way of Alamance County Inc | Burlington, NC | $29,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Walter M Williams High School Booster Club | Burlington, NC | $28,750 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Childrens Museum of Alamance County Inc | Graham, NC | $27,810 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Brookhaven, GA | $25,640 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bethany Presbyterian Church | Graham, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City of Burlington | Burlington, NC | $24,304 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community Foundation of the Florida Keys | Key West, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kingdom Living Now | Burlington, NC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Burr & Burton Academy | Manchester, VT | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Unc Charlotte | Charlotte, NC | $15,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Womens Resource Center in Alamance County | Burlington, NC | $15,200 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| East Carolina University | Greenville, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Abwe Foundation Inc | Harrisburg, PA | $14,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Positive Attitude | Burlington, NC | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Community YMCA of Alamance County Inc | Burlington, NC | $12,400 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Alamance County Meals on Wheels Inc | Burlington, NC | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| East Carolina University Foundation Inc | Greenville, NC | $11,900 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Samaritans Purse | Boone, NC | $11,183 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc | Asheville, NC | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Woodberry Forest School | Woodberry for, VA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Alamance County Public Libraries | Burlington, NC | $10,040 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc | Miami, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| C a R E | Littleton, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Calvary Home for Children | Anderson, SC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Christchurch School Foundation | Christchurch, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hillcrest Elementary School | Burlington, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Spirit of Excellence Inc | Burlington, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Safe Inc | Graham, NC | $9,650 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Burlington Police Department | Burlington, NC | $7,712 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Healthy Alamance | Burlington, NC | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Unc Greensboro | Greensboro, NC | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New Life at Hocutt Church | Burlington, NC | $6,970 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alamance County Economic Development Foundation | Burlington, NC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Educational Foundation Inc | Chapel Hill, NC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sustainable Alamance | Burlington, NC | $5,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alamance County Historical Museum Inc | Burlington, NC | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Allied Churches of Alamance County Inc | Burlington, NC | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nc State University | Raleigh, NC | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alamance Elder Care Inc | Graham, NC | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cummings High School Band Boosters | Burlington, NC | $5,100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
34 of 68 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 40 of 68 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 36 | $681,415 | $11,050 |
| 2022 | 37 | $709,569 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 30 | $650,053 | $10,250 |
| 2024 | 32 | $1,912,948 | $19,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
87% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $11,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Alamance Community Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 32 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1225 Huffman Mill Road Suite 103, Burlington, NC, 27215.
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