Charlotte Hornets Foundation Inc
Charlotte, NC · EIN 20-0946449. Reported 57 grants totalling $3,238,367 to 42 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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 Charlotte Hornets Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a fundraising and fund-distribution organization (NTEE T12).
- How spread out its giving is. 42 distinct organizations, with 16% 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. 25% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $500,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
14 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $1,552,000 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc | Charlotte, NC | $515,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cms Foundation | Charlotte, NC | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Foundation for the Carolinas | Charlotte, NC | $200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Care Ring Inc | Charlotte, NC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation | Reston, VA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Generation - You Employed Inc | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope Street Food Pantry Inc | Charlotte, NC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Local Initiatives Support Corporation | New York, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Renaissance West Community Initiative | Charlotte, NC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Soldiers Angels | San Antonio, TX | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The John Crosland School | Charlotte, NC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Negro College Fund Inc | Washington, DC | $55,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| YMCA of Greater Charlotte | Charlotte, NC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Speedway Childrens Charities | Concord, NC | $42,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Veterans Bridge Home Inc | Charlotte, NC | $36,574 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Nourish Up | Charlotte, NC | $31,304 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Muggsy Bogues Family Foundation | Matthews, NC | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Nest Academy Inc | Charlotte, NC | $26,450 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Angels and Sparrows Soup Kitchen Inc | Huntersville, NC | $26,260 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Armed Services YMCA of the USA | Woodbridge, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Charlotte Region | Charlotte, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Culinary School of Charlotte Inc | Charlotte, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Presbyterian Hospital Foundation | Winston Salem, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Roof Above Inc | Charlotte, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Carolinas | Charlotte, NC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Junior Achievement of Central Carolinas | Charlotte, NC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Independence Fund Inc | Charlotte, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Cabarrus County Inc | Concord, NC | $15,247 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Accept Wc | Charlotte, NC | $12,532 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Heart Association Inc | Dallas, TX | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boost Pad Inc | Charlotte, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Foundation | Charlotte, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ja Worldwide | Colorado Spgs, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Johnson C Smith University Incorporated | Charlotte, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Latin Americans Working for Achievement | Charlotte, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Levine Children's Hospital | Charlotte, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lonely Entrepreneur Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central and Western North Carolina Inc | Waxhaw, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Phills Foundation | Charlotte, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| YMCA of Greater Greensboro Teen Achievers | Greensboro, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
9 of 42 (21%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Community Culinary School of Charlotte
FIGHT HUNGER & DEVELOP EMPLOYMENT - United Negro College Fund Inc
SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 36 of 42 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 8 | $137,074 | $17,500 |
| 2021 | 9 | $186,336 | $12,532 |
| 2022 | 11 | $222,710 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 15 | $1,140,247 | $15,247 |
| 2024 | 14 | $1,552,000 | $37,500 |
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
66% 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.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
8 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 17 grants totalling $395,797 to Charlotte Hornets Foundation Inc. That is 40% of the 20 funders we can see giving to it. Those 8 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a grantmaking organization.
7 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Chris and Carrie Shumway Foundation | New York | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jvz Foundation | New York | $60,135 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| David and Nicole Tepper Charitable | New Jersey | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Acn Global Reach Charities Inc | North Carolina | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Dee-Lite Foundation Limited | New York | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bird Family Foundation | Texas | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Terry Rozier Foundation | Ohio | $11,576 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Amazonsmile Foundation | Washington | $86 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $20,000 -- 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 Charlotte Hornets Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 14 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: 333 East Trade Street, Charlotte, NC, 28202.
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