Funding search · EIN 200721133 · Charlotte, NC

The Bank of America Charitable

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

87,335
grants reported
$496.1M
total given
2022–2023
filing years
$500
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222023. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

  • Workforce development and job training for underserved adults
  • Affordable housing, CDFIs, and community development finance
  • Health nonprofits: heart, cancer, diabetes, hospital foundations
  • Community colleges, HBCUs, and postsecondary access programs
  • Civil rights and Hispanic/Black community organizations
  • Arts, museums, and hunger relief in bank-market cities

Typical grant

The median grant is $500 and half of everything falls between $105 and $1,100, which reflects tens of thousands of employee matching gifts and small local checks. Real institutional money sits at $250,000, a very common ceiling for national programs, community colleges, and CDFIs, with a handful of $1M to $2.5M awards to national health charities and Charlotte anchors. Large recipients recur year over year and often appear more than once in a single year with separate awards.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

  • PROGRAM/OPERATING SUPPORT
  • workforce development
  • community development
  • economic mobility

Positioning adjacent work

  • Anchor the ask to jobs, skills, or economic mobility outcomes rather than to research findings alone.
  • Ask $250,000 for a named program; that is their standard institutional grant size.
  • Partner with a community college, CDFI, or health nonprofit already in their portfolio.
  • Emphasize Charlotte, or a major bank market like NY, CA, TX, FL, MA.

Worth knowing: This is corporate giving run through a foundation, so decisions track bank markets and existing relationships, not open review; Charlotte is heavily favored relative to its size. The 34,000-recipient tail is mostly matching gifts and disaster or United Way giving, so the count of grants overstates how many organizations have a real funding relationship.

97 grants matching “lion · $56,579

  • $3,500

    New Baltimore Lions Club Charitie · New Baltimore, MI · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $2,500

    Lions Hole in One Club · Montgomery, TX · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $2,500

    Lions World Vision Institute · Tampa, FL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,900

    Lions of Illinois Foundation · Dekalb, IL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,500

    Waxhaw Lions Club Charities · Waxhaw, NC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,500

    Altruvision - a Lions Eye Bank · Philadelphia, PA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,500

    Davidson Lions Foundation · Davidson, NC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    Grafton Lions Charities · Grafton, MA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    Aquia Evening Lions Club · Stafford, VA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    Lions Clubs International Ftdn · Oak Brook, IL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    Tucson Cyber Lions Foundation · Tucson, AZ · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    Davidson Lions Foundation · Davidson, NC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    River Hills Lake Wylie Lions Char · Lake Wylie, SC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    Mineola Lions Club Foundation · Westbury, NY · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    Millbrae Lions Youth Center · Millbrae, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $600

    Aquia Evening Lions Club · Stafford, VA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Jacksonville Beaches Lions Founda · Jax Bch, FL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Aquia Evening Lions Club · Stafford, VA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Claymont Delaware Lions Club Foun · Wilmington, DE · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Darien Lions Club Foundation · Darien, IL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Freeland Lions Club Foundation · Freeland, MI · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Hopewell Valley Lions Charitable · Titusville, NJ · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Hughson Lions Club Foundation · Hughson, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    International Association of Lion · Plano, TX · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Lion Foundation · Camp Hill, PA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Lions & Rabbits Center for the Ar · Wyoming, MI · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Lions Baseball Boosters · Rialto, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Lions Camp Tatiyee · Lakeside, AZ · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Lions World Vision Institute · Tampa, FL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Lions Services · Charlotte, NC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Middletown Lions Club Foundation · Middletown, NY · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Red Lion Cheer Club · Windsor, PA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Red Lion Christian Academy · Bear, DE · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    River Hills Lake Wylie Lions Char · Lake Wylie, SC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Springtown Lions Club · Springtown, TX · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    The Wrentham Lions Club Foundatio · Wrentham, MA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Waxhaw Lions Club Charities · Waxhaw, NC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $400

    Hopewell Valley Lions Charitable · Titusville, NJ · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $300

    Aquia Evening Lions Club · Stafford, VA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $300

    Nc Lions Foundation · Sherrills Ford, NC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $240

    Darien Lions Club Foundation · Darien, IL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $200

    Hopewell Valley Lions Charitable · Titusville, NJ · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $200

    Leadership Prep School Lions Prid · Frisco, TX · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $160

    Friends of the Sea Lion · Laguna Beach, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $150

    Waxhaw Lions Club Charities · Waxhaw, NC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $100

    River Hills Lake Wylie Lions Char · Lake Wylie, SC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $100

    Texas Lions Camp · Kerrville, TX · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $100

    Hopewell Valley Lions Charitable · Titusville, NJ · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $100

    Waxhaw Lions Club Charities · Waxhaw, NC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $85

    Lion Foundation · Camp Hill, PA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $75

    Red Lion Cheer Club · Windsor, PA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $75

    North Carolina Lions Incorporated · Sherrills Frd, NC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $65

    Lions Sight & Tissue Foundation O · Dallas, TX · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $50

    Hopewell Valley Lions Charitable · Titusville, NJ · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $50

    Friends of the Sea Lion · Laguna Beach, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $40

    Friends of the Sea Lion · Laguna Beach, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $32

    Lions Sight & Tissue Foundation O · Dallas, TX · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $25

    Hopewell Valley Lions Charitable · Titusville, NJ · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $24

    Lions Tigers & Bears · Alpine, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $5

    Delaware Lions Foundation · Camden, DE · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $3,000

    Lions of Illinois Foundation · Dekalb, IL · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1,500

    Lions Eye Bank of Delaware Valley · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1,500

    Waxhaw Lions Club Charities · Waxhaw, NC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    Lions of Illinois Foundation · Dekalb, IL · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    Waxhaw Lions Club Charities · Waxhaw, NC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    Davidson Lions Foundation · Davidson, NC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    Lions Hole in One Club · Montgomery, TX · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $625

    Waxhaw Lions Club Charities · Waxhaw, NC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Aquia Evening Lions Club · Stafford, VA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Waxhaw Lions Club Charities · Waxhaw, NC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Lions Club of Bolton Foundation · Bolton, MA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Hudson Lions Club Charities · Hudson, NH · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation O · Concord, NH · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Lion Foundation · Camp Hill, PA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Red Lion Cheer Club · Windsor, PA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Everest Lions Friendship Associati · Ashburn, VA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Lions Vision Services a South Caro · Columbia, SC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    River Hills Lake Wylie Lions Chari · Lake Wylie, SC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Lions Eye Institute for Transplant · Tampa, FL · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Darien Lions Club Foundation · Darien, IL · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Chino Valley Lions Club · Chino Hills, CA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $425

    Aquia Evening Lions Club · Stafford, VA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $300

    Lions of Lockhurst · West Hills, CA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $300

    Darien Lions Club Foundation · Willowbrook, IL · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $275

    Lion Foundation · Camp Hill, PA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $250

    Hopewell Valley Lions Charitable F · Titusville, NJ · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $225

    Texas Lions Camp · Kerrville, TX · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $204

    Red Lion Cheer Club · Windsor, PA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $200

    Hopewell Valley Lions Charitable F · Titusville, NJ · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $125

    Red Lion Cheer Club · Windsor, PA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $66

    Red Lion Cheer Club · Windsor, PA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $65

    Lions Sight & Tissue Foundation of · Dallas, TX · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $50

    Hopewell Valley Lions Charitable F · Titusville, NJ · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $32

    Lions Sight & Tissue Foundation of · Dallas, TX · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $25

    The Little Lion Foundation · Long Beach, CA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $20

    Delaware Lions Foundation · Camden, DE · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $16

    Lions Sight & Tissue Foundation of · Dallas, TX · 2022

    Program/operating support

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • Charities Aid Foundation America110 grants · $10.1M
  • Atrium Health Foundation18 grants · $5.0M
  • National Urban League16 grants · $3.2M
  • American Heart Association102 grants · $3.0M
  • Unidosus25 grants · $2.9M
  • Special Olympics18 grants · $2.8M
  • American National Red Cross137 grants · $2.8M
  • American Heart Association63 grants · $2.7M
  • Enterprise Community Partners7 grants · $2.7M
  • Habitat for Humanity International60 grants · $2.6M

Giving over time

$284.6M
2022
$211.5M
2023

Grant history

The 100 largest of 87,335 grants.

  • $2.5M

    American Heart Association · Dallas, TX · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $2.5M

    Atrium Health Foundation · Charlotte, NC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $2.5M

    American Heart Association · Dallas, TX · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $2.5M

    Atrium Health Foundation · Charlotte, NC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $2.5M

    Morehouse College · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $2.5M

    Spelman College · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $2.0M

    Habitat for Humanity International · Americus, GA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $2.0M

    Johnson C Smith University Incorpo · Charlotte, NC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1.8M

    Special Olympics · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1.7M

    Close Up Foundation · Arlington, VA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1.6M

    American Cancer Society - Georgia · Atlanta, GA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1.6M

    American Diabetes Association a · Merrifield, VA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1.6M

    American Cancer Society Inc - Geor · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1.6M

    American Diabetes Association Ar · Merrifield, VA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1.4M

    Unidosus · Washington, DC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1.3M

    Local Initiatives Support Corpora · New York, NY · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1.3M

    Enterprise Community Partners · Columbia, MD · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1.3M

    Enterprise Community Partners · Columbia, MD · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1.3M

    Local Initiatives Support Corporat · New York, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1.2M

    Unidosus · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1.0M

    Charities Aid Foundation America · Alexandria, VA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1.0M

    Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Soci · Charlotte, NC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1.0M

    Feeding America · Chicago, IL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1.0M

    Johnson C Smith University Incorp · Charlotte, NC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1.0M

    Naacp Empowerment Programs · Baltimore, MD · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1.0M

    National Urban League · New York, NY · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1.0M

    The Obama Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1.0M

    Brigham and Women'S Hospital · Boston, MA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1.0M

    Charities Aid Foundation America · Alexandria, VA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1.0M

    Naacp Empowerment Programs · Baltimore, MD · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1.0M

    National Urban League · New York, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1.0M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1.0M

    Smithsonian Institute · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1.0M

    Special Olympics · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1.0M

    The Obama Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1.0M

    World Trade Center Performing Arts · New York, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $800,000

    Close Up Foundation · Alexandria, VA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $800,000

    World Central Kitchen Incorporated · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $780,000

    The Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $750,000

    Robert F Kennedy Center for Justic · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $750,000

    Water Org · Kansas City, MO · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $715,000

    Foundation for the Carolinas · Charlotte, NC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $700,000

    American Friends of Magen David a · New York, NY · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $700,000

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $700,000

    Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $700,000

    Friends of the World Food Program · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $700,000

    Urban Alliance Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $689,228

    Npower · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $637,500

    Loaves & Fishes Inc Dba Loaves & F · Charlotte, NC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $637,500

    Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrol · Charlotte, NC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $625,000

    Regents of the University of Mich · Ann Arbor, MI · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $625,000

    Regents of the University of Michi · Ann Arbor, MI · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $600,000

    Education Development Center · Waltham, MA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $600,000

    Generation - You Employed · Washington, DC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $600,000

    National Urban League · New York, NY · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $600,000

    Education Development Center · Waltham, MA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $600,000

    Generation You Employed · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $539,933

    Npower · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $525,000

    National Urban League · New York, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500,000

    Lawrence Catholic Academy of Lawr · Lawrence, MA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500,000

    Year Up · Boston, MA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500,000

    American National Red Cross · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500,000

    Black Economic Alliance Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500,000

    Children'S Hospital of the King'S · Norfolk, VA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500,000

    Feeding America · Chicago, IL · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500,000

    George W Bush Foundation · Dallas, TX · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500,000

    Georgetown University · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500,000

    National Center for State Courts · Williamsburg, VA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500,000

    The Nature Conservancy · New York, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500,000

    University of South Carolina Educa · Columbia, SC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500,000

    Year Up · Boston, MA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $450,000

    Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp · Washington, DC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $450,000

    Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $425,000

    City Harvest · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $425,000

    Community Food Bank of New Jersey · Hillside, NJ · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $425,000

    Food Bank for New York City · New York, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $420,000

    North Texas Food Bank · Plano, TX · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $400,000

    American National Red Cross · Washington, DC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $400,000

    North Carolina Zoological Society · Asheboro, NC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $400,000

    Partners Healthcare System · Boston, MA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $400,000

    Crossroads Community Services · Dallas, TX · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $400,000

    Kiva Microfunds · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $400,000

    North Carolina Zoological Society · Asheboro, NC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $400,000

    United States Hispanic Chamber of · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $375,000

    The Brookings Institution · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $375,000

    United Way of the Bay Area · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $350,000

    Community Reinvestment Fund · Minneapolis, MN · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $350,000

    United Way of the Bay Area · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $350,000

    American National Red Cross · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $350,000

    Charities Aid Foundation America · Alexandria, VA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $350,000

    Community Development Finance · Oakland, CA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $350,000

    Food Bank of Delaware · Newark, DE · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $350,000

    National Community Reinvestment Co · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $350,000

    Radical Hope · Concord, MA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $350,000

    United Way · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $335,000

    Stephen C Rose Legacy Foundation · Providence, RI · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $333,334

    Northwestern University · Evanston, IL · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $333,333

    Ashoka · Arlington, VA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $333,333

    Ashoka · Arlington, VA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $333,333

    Charmeck Family Justice Center · Charlotte, NC · 2022

    Program/operating support

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