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Alamance Community Foundation

The ALAMANCE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION's mission is to strengthen alamance county for present and future generations through inspired and collaborative giving.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$706k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$1.6MReligion$1.5MHuman Services$1.1MHealth$406kYouth Development$378kRecreation & Sports$173kArts & Culture$156kEnvironment$140kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $1,912,948, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,288,471 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $375,523 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $307k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $858k
  • $250k+1 grant · $706k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLESSED SACRAMENT CHURCH$706,065
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BURLINGTON$248,097
ELON UNIVERSITY$229,737
HELPING PARTNERS INC$100,000
BURLINGTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$65,296
ALAMANCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$62,242
ALAMANCE ARTS$52,400
BE LOUD SOPHIE FOUNDATION$50,000
FRIENDS OF GRAHAM RECREATION AND PARKS$50,000
DONORSCHOOSEORG$40,000
FEED THE HUNGER$31,500
RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT SERVICES OF ALAMANCE INC$30,972
ST MARK'S CHURCH$24,200
THE EPISOCOPAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMFORTER$24,188
CITY OF BURLINGTON RECREATION AND PARKS$21,830
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $735k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $9k → 14%SOUTHERN ALAMANCE FAMILY EMPOWERMENT: $10k → 13%ALAMANCE ELDERCARE: $5k → 13%SOUTHERN ALAMANCE FAMILY EMPOWERMENT: $5k → 13%SOUTHERN ALAMANCE FAMILY EMPOWERMENT: $5k → 13%HELPING PARTNERS INC: $100k → 13%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BURLINGTON: $248k → 13%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BURLINGTON: $201k → 13%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BURLINGTON: $64k → 13%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BURLINGTON: $53k → 13%ALAMANCE ELDER CARE: $7k → 13%YMCA OF ALAMANCE COUNTY INC: $7k → 13%ALAMANCE ELDER CARE: $6k → 13%YMCA OF ALAMANCE COUNTY INC: $6k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 46 repeat orgs$630k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
21

Total granted

$5.2M
$327k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+27%

Still filing today

65%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHealthArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • Elon University
    6× · 2019–2024 · $719k · revenue +32%
  • BF
    BURLINGTON FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CHILD DEVELOPMENT CTR INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $566k · revenue +12%
  • AC
    Alamance Community College Foundation
    6× · 2019–2024 · $369k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2020 · $102k
  • AC
    Alamance Community & Health Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $41k · revenue -3911%
  • BP
    BETHANY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Alamance Community School

Alamance community school is committed to helping students become engaged citizens by finding meaning in learning through exploring real-world problems and creating innovative and exciting solutions.

Education
2
Alamance Community Foundation

The alamance community foundation's mission is to strengthen alamance county for present and future generations through inspired and collaborative giving.

Philanthropy
3
Alamance Regional Medical Center Inc

Alamance regional medical center, inc operates a hospital in alamance county, nc which is committed to improving the health of citizens of alamance county and its surrounding communities.

Health
4
Advance Community Health Community Development Corporation

The community development corporation will create equitable and accessible whole-person solutions for every resident of north carolina through community collaboration and investment made possible by the community development corporation.

Human Services
5
Carolina College of Biblical Studies

Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.

Education
6
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
7
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

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8
The College of the Albemarle Foundation Inc

Support programs of the college of the albemarle

Education
9
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
10
Mcnc

To provide advanced electronic and information technologies to the nc education community, public health, and government agencies and to benefit economic development in nc.

Science & Tech
11
Als United North Carolina

To discover treatments and a cure for als and to serve, advocate for, and empower people affected by als to live their lives to the fullest.

Health
12
The University of North Carolina At Greensboro Investment Fund Inc

To accept the transfer of assets from the uncg endowment fund and the affiliated foundations, which benefit the university, and to manage the investment of those assets.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kingdom Living Now Dba Break the Cycle Global. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 78 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
28/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLESSED SACRAMENT CATHOLIC PARISH OF GRAHAM: $806,065 · OtherBLESSED SACRAMENT CATHOLIC PARISH OF GRAHAMAlamance Community College Foundation: $369,123 · OtherAlamance Community College FoundationSAINT MARKS EVANGELICAL AND REFORMED CHURCH INC: $159,250 · OtherSAINT MARKS EVANGELICAL AND REFORMED CHURCH INCEPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMFORTER: $130,834 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $102,000 · OtherALAMANCE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC: $101,650 · OtherFRIENDS OF GRAHAM RECREATION AND PARKS: $100,000 · Other+44 more: $1,145,761 · Other+44 moreElon University: $719,437 · EducationElon UniversityUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $105,200 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATIO…MONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $67,000 · EducationMONTESSORI COMMUNITY…DONORSCHOOSEORG: $40,000 · Education+8 more: $138,650 · Education+8 moreBURLINGTON FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CHILD DEVELOPMENT CTR INC: $566,042 · Human ServicesBURLINGTON FIR…HELPING PARTNERS INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesHELPING PARTNE…+5 more: $68,850 · Human Services+5 moreYOUNG LIFE: $337,950 · Youth DevelopmentBE LOUD SOPHIE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentPOSITIVE ATTITUDE YOUTH CENTER INC: $24,600 · Youth DevelopmentCenter for Community Self-Help: $395,000 · EmploymentRESIDENTIAL TREATMENT SERVICES OF ALAMANCE INC: $175,875 · HealthAlamance Community & Health Foundation: $41,250 · HealthNEW LEAF SOCIETY: $85,350 · EnvironmentNORTH CAROLINA MARINE AND ESTUARY FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · Environment
Other$2,914,683Education$1,070,287Human Services$734,892Youth Development$412,550Employment$395,000Health$217,125Environment$140,350

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetElon University: $719,437 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBURLINGTON FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CHILD DEVELOPMENT CTR INC: $566,042 over 4y, 23% of budgetCenter for Community Self-Help: $395,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetAlamance Community College Foundation: $369,123 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $337,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRESIDENTIAL TREATMENT SERVICES OF ALAMANCE INC: $175,875 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $105,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALAMANCE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC: $101,650 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetHELPING PARTNERS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetFEED THE HUNGER INC: $96,650 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNEW LEAF SOCIETY: $85,350 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetMONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $67,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBURLINGTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $65,296 over 1y, 76% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ALAMANCE COUNTY: $56,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MARINE AND ESTUARY FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetBE LOUD SOPHIE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ALAMANCE COUNTY INC: $43,743 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARGARET'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $34,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetALAMANCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWALTER M WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $28,750 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetWOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER IN ALAMANCE COUNTY NC: $26,900 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetPOSITIVE ATTITUDE YOUTH CENTER INC: $24,600 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetKINGDOM LIVING NOW DBA BREAK THE CYCLE GLOBAL: $20,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetSAFE INC: $19,650 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetALAMANCE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $19,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetALAMANCE ELDERCARE INC: $18,300 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBURR & BURTON SEMINARY: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALLIED CHURCHES OF ALAMANCE COUNTY INC: $16,350 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY YMCA OF ALAMANCE COUNTY: $12,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $11,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $11,183 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE ALAMANCE: $10,800 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetBURLINGTON DOWNTOWN CORPORATION: $10,200 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCALVARY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHRISTCHURCH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetC A R E dba The John 3 16 Center: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALAMANCE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetALAMANCE COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC: $5,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Elon University ↗
  • Who funds BURLINGTON FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH CHILD DEVELOPMENT CTR INC ↗
  • Who funds Center for Community Self-Help ↗
  • Who funds Alamance Community College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT SERVICES OF ALAMANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALAMANCE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF GRAHAM RECREATION AND PARKS ↗
  • Who funds HELPING PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds FEED THE HUNGER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW LEAF SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BURLINGTON COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF ALAMANCE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MARINE AND ESTUARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BE LOUD SOPHIE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ALAMANCE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Alamance Community & Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds ST MARGARET'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALAMANCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds WALTER M WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER IN ALAMANCE COUNTY NC ↗
  • Who funds POSITIVE ATTITUDE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …United Way of Alamanc…Alamance Community & …The Winston-Salem Fou…Alamance Regional Med…Ernest a Koury Family…Second Harvest Food B…The Labcorp Charitabl…Duke Energy FoundationRaymond James Charita…Renaissance Charitabl…Natl Christian Charit…
Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro IncNC35.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · United Way of Alamance County · Alamance Community & Health Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Alamance Regional Medical Center Inc · Ernest a Koury Family Foundation Inc · Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc · The Labcorp Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alamance Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alamance Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Burr & Burton Seminary: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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