Regional Affiliate Foundations and Grantmaking

Philanthropy Across Our Region

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THE LEE'S IMPACT ON STANLY COUNTY LIVES ON

After their deaths, the Robert and Jewell Lee Scholarship Fund was established to help students attend community college in Stanly County. The fund is under the Stanly County Community Foundation, a regional affiliate of Foundation For The Carolinas. Since its creation in 1999, the Stanly County Community Foundation has awarded more than $800,000 in grants to area nonprofits.

Our Regional Grantmaking

Foundation For The Carolinas serves the 13-county region around Charlotte. One of our primary ways of doing so is through our regional affiliates. 

Led by local boards of advisors, our regional affiliates are grantmaking funds that invest in their local communities. FFTC supports the work by engaging local leaders, managing endowments and facilitating grantmaking. Together, we provide philanthropic solutions to address community issues and invest in the important work of local nonprofits. 


Support Community Grantmaking

You can give at any level to support community grantmaking by the various affiliates’ boards of advisors. These volunteers thoughtfully award grants to nonprofits serving the local community – supporting literacy programs for young children, providing critical home repairs, feeding those in need and much more.

Affiliate your giving fund

A giving fund at Foundation For The Carolinas allows you to streamline your charitable giving. Use your fund to meet your unique charitable goals – whether to establish a scholarship program, support broad areas of community need or make grants to the nonprofits most meaningful to you.

You can also help inspire local giving by affiliating your FFTC fund with a regional affiliate. A portion of administrative fees received from your fund will directly support community grantmaking by the board of advisors. You will also learn more about charitable initiatives in that community. Contact your philanthropic advisor or Donor Relations to learn how to affiliate your fund.

Our Regional Affiliates

2025 Council of Regional Chairs

Board chairs from each of our 13 affiliates serve on FFTC’s Council of Regional Chairs.

Eric Dearmon, Cabarrus County Community Foundation

Erin Barbee, Charlotte Mecklenburg Community Foundation

Dr. Michael Bridges, Cherokee County Community Foundation

Spencer Boarders, Cleveland County Community Foundation

Sandy Ridley, The Cole Foundation, Richmond County

Lisa McBane, Iredell County Community Foundation

Jill Newman, Lancaster County Community Foundation

Robin Team, Lexington Area Community Foundation

Brian Beal, Lincoln County Community Foundation

Lauren Whaley, Salisbury-Rowan Community Foundation

Brooke Senter, Stanly County Community Foundation

Pat Kahle, Union County Community Foundation

Craig Craze, York County Community Foundation