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Tracking Hurricane Florence Disaster Relief

September 15, 2018

Updated: December 5, 2018 - 4:30 PM ET

After churning across the mid-Atlantic as a major Category 3/4 hurricane, Florence weakened as it neared the U.S. mainland, finally making landfall early Friday morning as a Cat 1, with sustained winds of 100 mph, near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. With a storm surge of more then ten feet reported in some areas of the state, the still-powerful, slow-moving storm was expected to drop biblical amounts of rain and cause extensive flooding across the Carolinas over the weekend. As of Saturday afternoon, Bloomberg was reporting that the storm had already dropped two feet of rain across southeastern North Carolina, "submerging cities...and threatening the large and environmentally precarious hog industry," while knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people in both North and South Carolina. As of early October, the death toll from the storm had risen to fifty-one.

Foundation Center and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy will be tracking the private institutional response to Florence over the coming days and will post updated totals, dashboard style, here on PhilanTopic. To make sure your company or organization's pledge has been included in the total, or for questions about methodology or sources, please contact Andrew Grabois, manager of corporate philanthropy at Foundation Center.

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(Photo credit: Reuters)

TOTAL: $59,172,000

Organization Type (pledges and commitments)

Corporate Direct Giving/
Company-Sponsored Foundations
$41,266,000 79 orgs.
Private Foundations $12,515,000 6 orgs.
Public Charities $5,391,000 9 orgs.

Top Recipients (Total Received to Date)

1. Unknown Recipient(s) $18,976,000
2. American Red Cross (national) $10,650,000
3. Hurricane Florence Response Fund
(Foundation for the Carolinas)
$5,100,000
4. WE Care Fund
(Wells Fargo employee assistance fund)
$3,000,000
5. Delivering Good $3,000,000
6. United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) $2,000,000
7. North Carolina Community Foundation Disaster Relief Fund $1,440,000
8. Feeding the Carolinas $1,000,000
9. Good360 $1,000,000
10. United Way Hurricane Florence Recovery Fund $625,000

Source: Foundation Center & Center for Disaster Philanthropy

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And for more data on philanthropic giving for disasters since 2011, check out
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