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North Carolina · Public charity

Big Rock Foundation Inc

The organizations primary exempt purpose is raising funds for charities and worthy community projects to promote conservation among sportsfishermen and preserve maritime culture and heritage while promoting marine education.

$160k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$6.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Big Rock Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyEnvironmentEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$160k8%
FY202312$154k17%
FY20229$80k22%
FY202120$487k45%
FY202010$83k20%
FY201714$431kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$282kYouth Development$232kHealth$228kArts & Culture$185kEducation$143kHousing & Shelter$85kScience & Tech$53kPublic Safety & Disaster$53kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Salvation Army$288,8541n/a
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Coastal Plain$111,50041%
Carteret County Public School Foundation$107,500125%
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc$87,00070%
Carteret County Historical Society Inc$67,500724%
The North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc$60,00070%
Eastern Carolina Council Bsa$57,5006n/a
St Egbert's Catholic School$53,0001n/a
Carteret County General Hospital Foundation$50,00031%
Hope Mission of Coastal Carolina Inc$44,60072%
Show all 30 grantees
All grantees of Big Rock Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Salvation Army$288,8541n/a
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Coastal Plain$111,50041%
Carteret County Public School Foundation$107,500125%
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc$87,00070%
Carteret County Historical Society Inc$67,500724%
The North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc$60,00070%
Eastern Carolina Council Bsa$57,5006n/a
St Egbert's Catholic School$53,0001n/a
Carteret County General Hospital Foundation$50,00031%
Hope Mission of Coastal Carolina Inc$44,60072%
Martha Mission Cupboard Inc$44,00079%
Broad Street Clinic Foundation$42,50070%
Seamans Service Ministry of MHC Inc$40,0001n/a
The Bridge Downeast Inc$36,000111%
Carteret Community College Foundation Inc$35,00022%
United Way of North Carolina$26,35312%
The Ocean Foundation$25,00010%
Another Perspective$24,000132%
Crystal Coast Hospice House$22,50042%
Easter Seals Ucp North Carolina & Virginia Inc$22,50040%
Take a Kid Fishing$22,0003n/a
Camp Albemarle$20,00012%
Carteret Community Theatre Inc$20,00012%
Carobell Inc$20,00030%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina$15,00011%
Family Promise of Carteret County$14,50027%
Misplaced Mutts$14,00014%
Core Sound Waterfowl Museum$10,00012%
Foundation for Shackleford Horses$8,000125%
East Carolina Council Bsa$5,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Big Rock Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of the Coastal Plain: $111,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCarteret County Public School Foundation: $107,500 over 1y, 25% of budgetNorth Carolina Symphony Society Inc: $87,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCarteret County Historical Society Inc: $67,500 over 7y, 24% of budgetThe North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCarteret County General Hospital Foundation: $50,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetHope Mission of Coastal Carolina Inc: $44,600 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetMartha Mission Cupboard Inc: $44,000 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetBroad Street Clinic Foundation: $42,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Bridge Downeast Inc: $36,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCarteret Community College Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetUnited Way of North Carolina: $26,353 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAnother Perspective: $24,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetCrystal Coast Hospice House: $22,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetEaster Seals Ucp North Carolina & Virginia Inc: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Albemarle: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCarteret Community Theatre Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCarobell Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFamily Promise of Carteret County: $14,500 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetMisplaced Mutts: $14,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCore Sound Waterfowl Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFoundation for Shackleford Horses: $8,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetEast Carolina Council Bsa: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Crystal Coast Tournam…North Carolina Commun…Triangle Community Fo…C Hamilton Sloan Foun…Spotswood Charitable …Beaufort Wine and Foo…The Wellons Family Fo…Loomis Foundation IncEddie and Jo Allison …The Cannon Foundation…Carlyle Adams Foundat…Harris Upchurch Found…
Crystal Coast Tournament IncNC34.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Crystal Coast Tournament Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · C Hamilton Sloan Foundation · Spotswood Charitable Foundation Inc · Beaufort Wine and Food Weekend Inc · The Wellons Family Foundation · Loomis Foundation Inc · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Carlyle Adams Foundation · Harris Upchurch Foundation 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.

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About Big Rock Foundation Inc

How much does Big Rock Foundation Inc give?
Big Rock Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $159,690 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Big Rock Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Youth Development (17%), Health (16%).
Who are Big Rock Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Salvation Army ($289k), Boys and Girls Clubs of the Coastal Plain ($112k), Carteret County Public School Foundation ($108k).
Does Big Rock Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Big Rock Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Crystal Coast Tournament Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation, Triangle Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Big Rock Foundation Inc based?
Big Rock Foundation Inc is based in NC.

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 30 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $140k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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