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Blueprint North Carolina
The Organization is a partnership of public policy, advocacy and grassroots organizing nonprofits dedicated to achieving a better, fairer, healthier North Carolina through the development of an integrated communications and civic engagement strategy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k20 grants · $573k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mi Familia En Accion | $50,000 |
| NC A Philip Randolph Institute Inc | $50,000 |
| NC A Philip Randolph Institute Inc | $50,000 |
| Mi Familia En Accion | $50,000 |
| Peoples Solidarity Hub | $40,000 |
| Legacy Bridge NC | $40,000 |
| Tranzmission Inc | $40,000 |
| Southern Vision Alliance | $40,000 |
| Richmond County Coalition for Justice and Black Empowerment | $40,000 |
| Reparations Stakekholder Authority of Asheville | $40,000 |
| SEAC Village | $40,000 |
| NC Black Alliance | $30,000 |
| Shackle Free Community Outreach Agency Inc | $27,000 |
| Shackle Free Community Outreach Agency Inc | $27,000 |
| Valores | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 81 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DNDemocracy North Carolina9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +45%
SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE9× · 2017–2025 · $832k · revenue ×25- UOUNIFOUR ONE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $581k · revenue +519%
Funded once
- SASOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INCone grant, 2023 · $544k · revenue +8%
- SSSign Scientistone grant, 2021 · $360k
- LNLEAD NC INSTITUTEone grant, 2018 · $225k · revenue -31%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…
Expands local news across North Carolina
The mission of NC Latino Power is to build and expand political and civic participation among Latino citizens of North Carolina through leadership training, voter education, and organizing within faith and community institutions.
North Carolinians for Redistricting Reform (NC4RR) is a bipartisan nonprofit working to improve North Carolina's representative democracy through redistricting reform. NC4RR's objective is to help pass a state constitutional amendment in…
NC CIVIL is a nonprofit community impact organization that develops grassroots approaches to structural disparities. Our mission is to increase resident involvement, improve organization of resources, and help institutions partner…
To encourage, promote, and stimulate the community development of human resources, principally to eliminate poverty through the operation of community action programs.
Progress North Carolina Action conducts research, sponsors educational activities and events, and disseminates accurate and timely information to promote the general public's understanding of ways to maintain and improve North Carolina's…
To educate the public on how to build a democracy where everyone participates, every vote is counted, voting rights are fully enforced, and everyone's voice is heard; to work toward a system where everyone has a say in decisions that…
Igniting collective power. Transforming systems of oppression. Healing in community.
The Organization is a partnership of public policy, advocacy and grassroots organizing nonprofits dedicated to achieving a better, fairer, healthier North Carolina through the development of an integrated communications and civic…
Action nc is a community organization and citizen action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies - most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and economic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Justice Center and the most unlike its peers is Brace Community Outreach. 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.
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 17 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
161 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. 161 of the 258 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Democracy North Carolina ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA A PHILIP RANDOLPH EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIFOUR ONE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds N C A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds EL PUEBLO INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIACION DE MEXICANOS EN CAROLINA DEL NORT ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds PENDER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Kinston Teens Inc ↗
- Who funds Emancipate NC Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SHACKLE FREE COMMUNITY OUTREACH AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds LEAD NC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ASIAN AMERICANS TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds FUERZA Y UNION MULTIPLE ↗
- Who funds ALPHA LIFE ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEN & WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS ↗
- Who funds ACTION INSTITUTE NC ↗
- Who funds Institute for Southern Studies Inc ↗
- Who funds PODER NC ACTION ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
- Who funds VALORES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Nc Counts Coalition · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Common Cause Education Fund · Southern Coalition for Social Justice · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Southern Vision Alliance · Imagine North Carolina First · North Carolina Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation
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 Blueprint North Carolina 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.
- Campus Compact — 1% of income from government
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.