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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$25M
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Food & Nutrition$3.2MHealth$2.9MEducation$2.7MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.1MCommunity Improvement$1.5MHuman Services$860kPhilanthropy$850kCivil Rights$660kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$24,602,951
Median grant
1
States reached
$217M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOTAL$24,602,951
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $590k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY EL VINCULO: $50k → 9%HIGH PLAINS INDIANS INC: $20k → 14%HALIWA-SAPONI INDIAN TRIBE: $20k → 20%WACCAMAW SIOUAN INDIAN TRIBE INC: $20k → 21%HISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY EL VINCULO: $50k → 9%NC FIELD INC: $25k → 21%NC FIELD INC: $20k → 21%EQUITY BEFORE BIRTH: $100k → 11%COLABORATIVA LA MILPA: $25k → 12%LATIN AMERICAN COALITION: $25k → 10%LATIN AMERICAN COALITION: $25k → 10%COLABORATIVA LA MILPA: $25k → 12%GUILFORD CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $100k → 16%LATIN AMERICAN COALITION: $10k → 10%EL PUEBLO INC: $25k → 8%EL PUEBLO INC: $25k → 8%EL PUEBLO INC: $25k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
2
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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3
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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4
North Carolina Early Education Coalition

Act as an organization to provide education, information distribution, training, newsletters, fact sheets, and other materials to educate communities about the importance of high quality childhood education, especially for infants and…

Education
5
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
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First Choice Community Health Ctrs

Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.

Health
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The Center for Rural Health Innovation

Improve healthcare in rural communities

Health
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North Carolina Business Group On Health Inc

To educate, advocate, and innovate for a better healthcare delivery system in nc.

Health
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North Carolina Community Action Association

To encourage, promote, and stimulate the community development of human resources, principally to eliminate poverty through the operation of community action programs.

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North Carolina Aids Action Network

The NCAAN improves the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS and affected communities through outreach and public education, policy advocacy and community-building to increase visibility and mutual support of people living with HIV/AIDS…

Health
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North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ

The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…

Education
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Nash Edgecombe Wilson Community Action Inc

To advance the general welfare of the people of eastern north carolina through programs providing housing and childcare assistance as well as poverty elimination strategies to disadvantaged populations.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Farmworkers' Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is De Beaumont Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian International Dev…Professional & Industry Ass…Healthcare Systems and Netw…Residential Recovery Servic…Local Food SystemsAffordable Housing Developm…North Carolina Environmenta…Regional Business Developme…Charter and Independent Sch…Senior Residential CareEarly Childhood Care and De…Performing Arts Organizatio…Unc System Support Organiza…Youth & Amateur Sports Prog…North Carolina Advocacy Org…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%0%<5yr17%10%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr14%36%20–35yr12%32%35–55yr11%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%0%<5yr17%7%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr14%35%20–35yr12%33%35–55yr11%7%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/80
the rest of the field
17%
4,168/25,128

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
74/76
Grantees still filing
56/76
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TOTAL — $87,440,389 · OtherTOTAL+48 more — $8,515,500 · Other+48 moreNORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC — $1,000,000 · EducationMOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC — $365,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC — $290,000 · EducationWAKE COUNTY SMART START INC — $155,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC — $150,000 · EducationJAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN — $100,000 · EducationSUPERLATIVE ACADEMY INC — $100,000 · EducationCharlotte Bilingual Learning Center — $100,000 · Education+3 more — $82,000 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC — $350,000 · Community ImprovementRURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $290,000 · Community ImprovementEL CENTRO HISPANO INC — $260,000 · Community ImprovementWEST MARION INC — $203,000 · Community ImprovementReinvestment Partners — $200,000 · Community ImprovementWORKING LANDSCAPES — $150,000 · Community Improvement+4 more — $170,000 · Community ImprovementNorth Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc — $403,000 · HealthCOMPASSION HEALTH CARE INC — $203,000 · HealthNORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH — $181,000 · HealthCARE SHARE HEALTH ALLIANCE INC — $125,000 · HealthMEDSERVE — $100,000 · HealthMOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC — $65,000 · HealthADVANCE COMMUNITY HEALTH INC — $65,000 · HealthRURAL HEALTH GROUP INC — $65,000 · HealthHIGH COUNTRY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC — $65,000 · HealthCABARRUS ROWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $60,000 · HealthROANOKE CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $60,000 · HealthFeeding the Carolinas — $1,000,000 · Food & NutritionTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC — $203,000 · Food & NutritionNORTH CAROLINA FARMWORKERS' PROJECT INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE-WS INC — $50,000 · Food & NutritionUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC — $250,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC — $200,000 · PhilanthropyDE BEAUMONT FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyHANDSON NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA — $35,000 · PhilanthropyAppalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project — $500,000 · EnvironmentBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION — $175,000 · Environment
Other$95,955,889Education$2,342,000Community Improvement$1,623,000Health$1,392,000Food & Nutrition$1,303,000Philanthropy$785,000Environment$675,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFeeding the Carolinas — $1,000,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAppalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project — $500,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetNC CHILD — $500,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION — $445,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetNorth Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc — $403,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMOUNTAIN AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC — $365,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC — $350,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC — $290,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetRURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $290,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEL CENTRO HISPANO INC — $260,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC — $250,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWEST MARION INC — $203,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetOpportunities Industrialization Center Inc — $203,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC — $203,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCOMPASSION HEALTH CARE INC — $203,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREENSBORO HOUSING COALITION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetReinvestment Partners — $200,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDE BEAUMONT FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH — $181,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetWAKE COUNTY SMART START INC — $155,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWORKING LANDSCAPES — $150,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC — $150,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPIEDMONT TRIAD REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $129,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCARE SHARE HEALTH ALLIANCE INC — $125,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA RECREATION & PARK ASSOCIATION — $125,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetPositive Childhood Alliance North Carolina — $124,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetEQUITY BEFORE BIRTH — $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetJAMES B HUNT JR INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP & POLICY FDN — $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUPERLATIVE ACADEMY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 97% of budgetGENERATIONED — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetImmersion for Spanish Language Acq — $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetEMPOWERED PARENTS IN COMMUNITY — $100,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetMEDSERVE — $100,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetHISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY — $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCharlotte Bilingual Learning Center — $100,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetASSOCIACION DE MEXICANOS EN CAROLINA DEL NORT — $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetChildren FirstCommunities In Schools of Buncombe County Inc — $85,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetEL PUEBLO INC — $75,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC — $65,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetADVANCE COMMUNITY HEALTH INC — $65,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRURAL HEALTH GROUP INC — $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY COMMUNITY HEALTH INC — $65,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCABARRUS ROWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Z Smith Reynolds Foun…Triangle Community Fo…Dogwood Health TrustNorth Carolina Commun…The Duke EndowmentFoundation for the Ca…Blueprint North Carol…The Leon Levine Found…The Cannon Foundation…Community Foundation …The Winston-Salem Fou…John Rex Endowment
Z Smith Reynolds Foundation IncNC72.2× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Duke Endowment · Foundation for the Carolinas · Blueprint North Carolina · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · John Rex Endowment

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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