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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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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