National Council for the Traditional Arts

Patricia E & John D Bassett III

Galax, VA

The foundation supports a range of charitable organizations, including healthcare, education, churches, and community services, with grants across several states, especially North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, New York, and Georgia. Its 2025 grants ranged from $300 to $6,000, with a median of $3,000. It funds only preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

The Morningstar Foundation

Dallas, TX

The Dallas-based Morningstar Foundation’s stated interests include the environment, health research, education, children’s initiatives, and animal welfare, though its 2024 filing reports only one $13,040 grant to a donor fund in Massachusetts. Its 2023 return was marked final, and that filing stated it did not accept unsolicited requests and gave only to preselected organizations.

Foundation for the Carolinas

Charlotte, NC

Foundation For The Carolinas funds education and youth development, environmental and wildlife work, health and human services, and animal welfare, with a reported median grant of $25,000 in 2024. Its competitive programs focus on Charlotte-Mecklenburg, the Carolinas, and specific local communities, while donor-advised funds may support eligible nonprofits more broadly; it accepts applications for some competitive grants, but most grants are recommended by fund advisors and have no application process.

Surtman Foundation

Smithfield, VA

The Surtman Foundation supports educational grants, primarily in medical research, education, and community service, with recent awards also going to religious organizations. Its 2025 grants ranged from $500 to $102,500, with a median of $1,500; funding went mainly to Virginia, with awards also made in several other states. The foundation accepts applications in any legible, orderly form and does not limit giving to preselected organizations.

Environmental Federation of North

Durham, NC

Earthshare nc inspires and provides opportunities for individuals and corporations to actively participate in work for healthy and sustainable communities across nc alongside our nonprofit members. Together we strengthen the impact nonprofit members can make for clean air and water, healthy places to live, and safe food to eat, here in nc, nationally, and globally.

T W Lott Family Foundation

Houston, TX

The Ebert-Leblanc Family Foundation Inc

Pensacola, FL

The Ebert-Leblanc Family Foundation supports a range of charitable work, including disaster response, veterans’ services, health, and community support, with grants to organizations in multiple states, especially Tennessee, North Carolina, and Florida. In 2024, grants ranged from $500 to $35,000, with a median of $2,250. It gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Mark & Melissa Harrill Family Foundation

Boone, NC

The John Crosland III

Charlotte, NC

The foundation supports schools, conservation, animal welfare, and other charitable organizations, primarily in North Carolina and Georgia. In 2025, grants ranged from $300 to $100,000, with a median of $1,000. It does not accept unsolicited requests and gives only to preselected organizations.

Annie E Casey Foundation Inc

Baltimore, MD

The Annie E. Casey Foundation funds U.S. nonprofits and other partners working to improve outcomes for children and young people, including family strengthening, child welfare, education, employment, community development and juvenile justice. In 2024, grants ranged from $50 to $1,185,000, with a median of $40,000. Grants are by invitation only; it does not accept unsolicited requests.

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg

Owings Mills, MD

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation funds direct services, programs, general operations, and capital projects in housing, health, jobs, education, and aging for low-income and vulnerable people. Its 2024 grants had a median of $50,000; its Small Grants Program offers up to $50,000 over two years, with funding focused on Baltimore, Hawaiʻi, Israel, and Northeastern Pennsylvania. It awards grants by invitation only and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, MD

Johns Hopkins University funds a broad range of education, research, health, and community-related work, with 2025 grants ranging from $5,500 to nearly $95 million and a median of $100,000; many of the largest awards were sub-awards. Its grants went to organizations across the U.S., with the largest shares in California and Maryland, and the profile does not state whether it accepts unsolicited requests.