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Carolina Hurricanes Foundation

Raleigh, NC · EIN 22-2652765. Reported 44 grants totalling $905,000 to 39 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

39organizations funded
$15,000median reported grant
$905,000granted, 2020-2023
19%of grantees funded again the next year
17%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Carolina Hurricanes Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a private independent foundation (NTEE T22Z).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 17% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 19% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $75,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$10,000 - $25,000
32 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
6 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
6 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Unc Health Foundation IncChapel Hill, NC$150,000222023
Inter-Faith Food ShuttleRaleigh, NC$120,000332023
Raleigh Youth Hockey Association IncRaleigh, NC$75,000222023
The Green Chair Project IncRaleigh, NC$50,000112020
Cape Fear Youth Hockey AssociationFort Bragg, NC$25,000112023
Childrens Flight of Hope IncRaleigh, NC$25,000112023
Gigis Playhouse IncCary, NC$25,000112023
SafechildRaleigh, NC$25,000112023
The Foundation of Hope for Research & Treatment of Mental IllnessRaleigh, NC$25,000112023
A Place at the TableRaleigh, NC$20,000112023
Autism Society of North Carolina IncRaleigh, NC$20,000112023
Diaper Bank of North CarolinaHillsborough, NC$20,000112023
Marbles Kids MuseumRaleigh, NC$20,000112023
North Carolina Arts in Action IncRaleigh, NC$20,000222023
The Family Violence Prevention Center IncRaleigh, NC$20,000112023
American Heart Association IncDallas, TX$15,000112023
Hospice of Wake County IncRaleigh, NC$15,000112022
Kramden Institute IncDurham, NC$15,000112022
Triangle Family Services IncRaleigh, NC$15,000112022
Triangle Special Hockey AssociationRaleigh, NC$15,000112022
321 Ventures LLCRaleigh, NC$10,000112023
Book HarvestDurham, NC$10,000112021
Bridge II SportsDurham, NC$10,000112023
Families Moving ForwardDurham, NC$10,000112023
Greensboro Youth Hockey Association IncGreensboro, NC$10,000112022
Haven House IncRaleigh, NC$10,000112023
Hill Center IncDurham, NC$10,000112023
Junior Achievement of Eastern North Carolina IncRaleigh, NC$10,000112023
Lucy Daniels Center for Early ChildhoodCary, NC$10,000112022
National Assistance LeagueRaleigh, NC$10,000112022
Nourishnc IncWilmington, NC$10,000112022
Read and FeedCary, NC$10,000112023
Saving Grace Animals for Adoption IncWake Forest, NC$10,000112022
Soar OutreachGarner, NC$10,000112023
The Alice Aycock Poe Center for Health EducationRaleigh, NC$10,000112023
Triad Hockey AllianceGreensboro, NC$10,000112022
Triangle Youth Hockey of North Carolina IncEfland, NC$10,000112022
Veterans Life CenterRaleigh, NC$10,000112022
Winston Salem Youth Hockey AssociationClemmons, NC$10,000112022

4 of 39 (10%) 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 27 of 39 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.

Education
5 orgs
Human Services
5 orgs
Recreation & Sports
5 orgs
Mental Health
2 orgs
Crime & Legal
2 orgs
Food & Nutrition
2 orgs
Health Care
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20202$100,000$50,000
20212$60,000$30,000
202216$285,000$10,000
202324$460,000$20,000

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

98% 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.

North Carolina
$890K
Texas
$15K

Down to the city

Raleigh, NC
$525K
Chapel Hill, NC
$150K
Durham, NC
$55K
Cary, NC
$45K
Fort Bragg, NC
$25K
Hillsborough, NC
$20K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund27 shared recipientsTriangle Community Foundation Inc24 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc24 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc23 shared recipientsDuke Energy Foundation21 shared recipientsNorth Carolina Community Foundation18 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
  4. 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 Carolina Hurricanes Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 24 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: 1400 Edwards Mill Road, Raleigh, NC, 27607.

EIN 22-2652765 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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