C Hamilton Sloan Foundation
Raleigh, NC · EIN 56-1870847. Reported 313 grants totalling $3,164,533 to 82 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. 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. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YMCA of the Triangle Area | Suite, NC | $300,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Wake County | Raleigh, NC | $274,533 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Coastal Carolina | Morehead City, NC | $265,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Salvation Army of Carteret County | Morehead City, NC | $180,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Band Together | Raleigh, NC | $125,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc | Raleigh, NC | $109,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Wake Med Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $100,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Boy Scouts of America Occoneechee | Raleigh, NC | $95,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| St David's School | Raleigh, NC | $85,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Hope Mission | Morehead City, NC | $80,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Green Chair Project | Raleigh, NC | $80,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| North Carolina Wildlife Federation | Raleigh, NC | $70,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Keys Children's Foundation | Key Largo, FL | $70,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Carteret Health Care Foundation | Morehead City, NC | $65,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Nc Symphony | Raleigh, NC | $63,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Ocean Reef Community Foundation | Key Largo, FL | $62,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Broad Street Clinic Foundation | Morehead City, NC | $61,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Carteret Community College Foundation | Morehead City, NC | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Marine & Estuary Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Carolina Ballet | Raleigh, NC | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Family Promise of Carteret County | Morehead City, NC | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Healing Transitions | Raleigh, NC | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Nc Museum of Natural Sciences | Raleigh, NC | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Urban Ministries of Wake County | Raleigh, NC | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Friends of the Nc Maritime Museum | Beaufort, NC | $48,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Beaufort Historical Association | Beaufort, NC | $33,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Nc Museum of History Associates | Raleigh, NC | $31,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Central Carolina | Sanford, NC | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia | Alexandria, VA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Paul's Episcopal Church | Beaufort, NC | $26,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Hearts and Hands for Haiti | Raleigh, NC | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Lucy Daniels Center | Cary, NC | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Sound Rivers - Lower Neuse Riverkeeper | New Bern, NC | $25,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs | Atlanta, GA | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Sanford | Sanford, NC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Maritime Heritage Foundation of Beaufort | Beaufort, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Samaritan's Purse | Boone, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Nature Conservancy | Durham, NC | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Salvation Army of Wake County | Raleigh, NC | $19,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Nc Museum of Art | Raleigh, NC | $17,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Aldert Root Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $16,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Crystal Coast Hospice House | Newport, NC | $15,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Marbles Kids Museum | Raleigh, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| Nc Zoological Society | Asheboro, NC | $13,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Ocean Reef Chapel Foundation | Key Largo, FL | $13,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| American Red Cross of Coastal Carolina | New Bern, NC | $10,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Beaufort Historical Foundation | Beaufort, NC | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Historic Beaufort Foundation | Beaufort, SC | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| North Carolina Coastal Federation | Newport, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Stepup Ministry | Raleigh, NC | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Contemporary Art Foundation | Raleigh, NC | $9,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Coast Guard Foundation | Stonington, CT | $7,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle | Raleigh, NC | $6,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hope Clinic | Bayboro, NC | $6,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Habitat for Humanity Crystal Coast | Newport, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Heart's Cry Children's Ministry | Raleigh, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Ieca Foundation | Fairfax, VA | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | Topsham, ME | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Mystic Seaport | Mystic, CT | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| National Cathedral School | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| National Maritime Historical Society | Peekskill, NY | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Nc Special Olympics | Raleigh, NC | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Neighbor to Neighbor | Raleigh, NC | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Rhodes College | Memphis, TN | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| United Arts Council of Raleigh | Raleigh, NC | $5,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Herreshoff Marine Museum | Bristol, RI | $4,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Core Sound Waterfowl Museum | Harkers Island, NC | $3,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Martha's Mission Cupboard | Morehead City, NC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| 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 |
69 of 82 (84%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 93%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
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 activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 151 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
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 |
| 2025 | 61 | $723,533 | $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
91% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.
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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 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 foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- 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 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
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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