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.

135 grants matching “marching · $83,163

  • $6,209

    March of Dimes · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $4,424

    March of Dimes · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $2,970

    March of Dimes · Arlington, VA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $2,707

    March of Dimes · Arlington, VA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $2,400

    March of Dimes · Chicago, IL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $2,200

    March of Dimes · West Palm Beach, FL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,938

    March of Dimes · West Palm Beach, FL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,861

    March of Dimes · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,239

    March of Dimes · Greenville, SC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    Marching Eagle Parent Association · Coral Springs, FL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    March of Dimes · Johns Island, SC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    Belleville East Marching Lancers · Belleville, IL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    Friends of the March of the Livng · Miami, FL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $780

    March of Dimes · Arlington, VA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $705

    March of Dimes · Atlanta, GA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $577

    March of Dimes · Arlington, VA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $553

    March of Dimes · Arlington, VA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $533

    March of Dimes · Atlanta, GA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $516

    March of Dimes · Reno, NV · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    March of Dimes · Arlington, VA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Plainfield Marching Arts Boosters · Plainfield, IL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Belleville East Marching Lancers · Belleville, IL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Unionville Marching Band Boosters · Mendenhall, PA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $411

    March of Dimes · Reno, NV · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $382

    March of Dimes · Charlotte, NC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $377

    March of Dimes · Charlotte, NC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $300

    Belleville East Marching Lancers · Belleville, IL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $296

    March of Dimes · Chicago, IL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $255

    March of Dimes · Dallas, TX · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $252

    March of Dimes · Glendale, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $250

    Belleville East Marching Lancers · Belleville, IL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $206

    March of Dimes · Arlington, VA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $200

    March of Dimes · Arlington, VA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $180

    March of Dimes · Glendale, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $175

    March of Dimes · Reno, NV · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $165

    March of Dimes · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $160

    March of Dimes · West Palm Beach, FL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $156

    March of Dimes · Greenville, SC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $155

    March of Dimes · West Palm Beach, FL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $150

    Belleville East Marching Lancers · Belleville, IL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $150

    March of Dimes · Atlanta, GA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $140

    March of Dimes · Greenville, SC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $127

    March of Dimes · Atlanta, GA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $125

    March of Dimes · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $110

    March of Dimes · Arlington, VA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $100

    March of Dimes · Savannah, GA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $100

    March for Our Lives Foundation · New York, NY · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $90

    March of Dimes · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $80

    March of Dimes · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $75

    March of Dimes · Atlanta, GA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $70

    March of Dimes · Maryland Heights, MO · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $62

    March of Dimes · Atlanta, GA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $60

    March of Dimes · Arlington, VA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $59

    March of Dimes · Miami, FL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $50

    March of Dimes · Reno, NV · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $48

    March of Dimes · West Palm Beach, FL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $45

    March of Dimes · West Palm Beach, FL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $40

    March of Dimes · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $35

    March of Dimes · Miami, FL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $31

    March of Dimes · Atlanta, GA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $30

    March of Dimes · Edina, MN · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $28

    March of Dimes · Miami, FL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $26

    March of Dimes · San Diego, CA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $25

    March of Dimes · Holt, MI · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $24

    March of Dimes · Atlanta, GA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $24

    March for Life Education and Defe · Washington, DC · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $14

    March of Dimes · Miami, FL · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $12

    March of Dimes · Atlanta, GA · 2023

    Program/operating support

  • $6,544

    March of Dimes · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $5,250

    March of Dimes · New York, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $2,500

    March of Dimes · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $2,000

    March of Dimes · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1,980

    March of Dimes · Arlington, VA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1,934

    March of Dimes · Arlington, VA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1,620

    March of Dimes · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1,277

    March of Dimes · Arlington, VA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1,200

    March of Dimes · Houston, TX · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1,180

    March of Dimes · New York, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    Belleville East Marching Lancers B · Belleville, IL · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    Marching Eagle Parent Association · Coral Springs, FL · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $1,000

    March of Dimes · New York, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $927

    March of Dimes · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $877

    March of Dimes · Arlington, VA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $828

    March of Dimes · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $750

    Belleville East Marching Lancers B · Belleville, IL · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $700

    March of Dimes · New York, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $650

    Belleville East Marching Lancers B · Belleville, IL · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Marching Bears · Norwalk, CT · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    March of Dimes · Johns Island, SC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $500

    Belleville East Marching Lancers B · Belleville, IL · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $495

    March of Dimes · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $416

    March of Dimes · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $410

    March of Dimes · West Palm Beach, FL · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $405

    March of Dimes · Charlotte, NC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $400

    March of Dimes · Leawood, KS · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $392

    March of Dimes · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $363

    March of Dimes · Arlington, VA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $300

    March of Dimes · Wayne, PA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $287

    March of Dimes · Arlington, VA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $281

    March of Dimes · Glendale, CA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $276

    March of Dimes · Glendale, CA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $275

    March of Dimes · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $250

    March of Dimes · New York, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $200

    March of Dimes · New York, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $181

    March of Dimes · Maryland Heights, MO · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $171

    March of Dimes · West Palm Beach, FL · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $150

    March of Dimes · Johns Island, SC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $144

    March of Dimes · Dallas, TX · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $132

    March of Dimes · Glendale, CA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $131

    March of Dimes · West Palm Beach, FL · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $127

    March of Dimes · Grand Blanc, MI · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $125

    March of Dimes · Westborough, MA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $110

    March of Dimes · Charlotte, NC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $103

    March of Dimes · New York, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $100

    March of Dimes · Wayne, PA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $75

    March of Dimes · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $72

    March of Dimes · Arlington, VA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $60

    March of Dimes · Portland, OR · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $55

    March of Dimes · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $52

    March of Dimes · Charlotte, NC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $50

    March of Dimes · Westborough, MA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $49

    March of Dimes · Greenville, SC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $48

    March of Dimes · Maryland Heights, MO · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $40

    March of Dimes · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $36

    March of Dimes · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $35

    March of Dimes · Maryland Heights, MO · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $30

    March of Dimes · Brewer, ME · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $27

    March of Dimes · Arlington, VA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $25

    March of Dimes · New York, NY · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $24

    March of Dimes · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $24

    March for Life Education and Defen · Washington, DC · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $20

    March of Dimes · Miami, FL · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $16

    March of Dimes · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $12

    March of Dimes · Atlanta, GA · 2022

    Program/operating support

  • $10

    March of Dimes · Miami, FL · 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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