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Carolina Hurricanes Foundation

The foundation raises and donates money to various organizations in order to support the local community.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$1.1MHuman Services$705kHealth$588kEducation$400kFood & Nutrition$380kPublic Benefit$275kHousing & Shelter$248kCrime & Legal$220kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 54 grants below total $1,550,850, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,712,286 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $161,436 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $675k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $860k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COUNTY OF MITCHELL$150,000
COUNTY OF AVERY$125,000
RALEIGH YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION$110,000
TOWN OF CANTON$100,000
VALLE CRUCIS PARK INC$100,000
THE WESTERN YOUTH NETWORK INC$100,000
ASHEVILLE HOCKEY LEAGUE$75,000
MANNA FOODBANK INC$50,000
ONLY HOPE WNC INC$50,000
EQUAL PLATES PROJECT$35,000
TRIANGLE SPECIAL HOCKEY ASSOCIATION$32,500
THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT$30,000
THE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC$30,000
COUNTY OF YANCEY$25,000
CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF WATAUGA COUNTY INC$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Kesem: $15k → 14%Inter-Faith Food Shuttle: $50k → 8%ONLY HOPE WNC INC: $50k → 12%DIAPER BANK OF NC: $20k → 13%Boys and Girls Homes of NC: $10k → 21%THE WESTERN YOUTH NETWORK INC: $100k → 21%COMFORT ZONE CAMP: $10k → 9%Inter-Faith Food Shuttle: $50k → 8%KRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC: $15k → 11%Table Inc: $15k → 13%Inter-Faith Food Shuttle: $50k → 8%Triangle Special Hockey: $13k → 9%TABLE INC: $15k → 13%INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $20k → 8%Inter-Faith Food Shuttle: $10k → 8%ACCESS Of Wilimington: $5k → 12%NOTE IN THE POCKET: $15k → 8%Note in the Pocket: $15k → 8%Children's Home Society of NC Inc: $10k → 8%Diaper Bank of NC: $15k → 11%STEPUP MINISTRY (3RD YEAR): $50k → 8%StepUp Ministry: $50k → 8%StepUp Ministry: $50k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA DOWN SYNDROME ALLIANCE: $10k → 8%TAMMY LYNN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%READ AND FEED (2ND YEAR): $50k → 8%Read and Feed: $50k → 8%Read and Feed: $50k → 8%Triangle Special Hockey Association: $15k → 8%Triangle Special Hockey Association: $10k → 8%TRIANGLE SPECIAL HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE: $15k → 8%Miracle League of Triangle: $30k → 8%MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE TRIANGLE: $15k → 8%The Green Chair Project: $50k → 8%The Green Chair Project: $50k → 8%The Green Chair Project: $50k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $30k → 8%THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $15k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
CA
VA
TN
NC
OK
TX
FL
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 39 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
39

Total granted

$2.7M
$517k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+15%

Still filing today

97%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • RY
    RALEIGH YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $335k · revenue +193%
  • TG
    THE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT
    5× · 2018–2025 · $195k · revenue +91%
  • INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE
    5× · 2019–2024 · $180k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • DC
    DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -3%
  • TR
    THE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -55%
  • CF
    CHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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
North Carolina Youth Soccer Association Inc

Promote, coordinate, and develop youth soccer.

Recreation & Sports
2
Wake County Smart Start Inc

Wake county smart start invests in young children, their families, and a connected early childhood system that supports and prepares them for school and life ahead.

Education
3
Junior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc

Junior achievement is the world's largest organization dedicated to educating private and public school students in grades k-12 about entrepreneurship, workforce readiness, and financial literacy, through experiential, hands-on programs.

International
4
Carolina Youth Soccer Association

To provide all families a positive, healthy, progressive environment for youth development through soccer in our community.

Youth Development
5
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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6
North Carolina Victim Assistance Network

North carolina victim assistance network promotes the rights and needs of crime victims by educating north carolina's citizens and public policy leaders about the devastating impact that crime has on our society. serving our members as a…

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7
Wnc Health Network Inc

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

Health
8
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers

Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse

Youth Development
9
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
10
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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11
North Carolina Foundation for Public School Children

To provide basic necessities for public school children as well as improving parenting skills in order for the children to be successful in school and to expand professional development opportunities for educators.

Philanthropy
12
North Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children

Ncaeyc promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. we advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Read and Feed; the most unlike its peers is Valle Crucis Park Inc. 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

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 100 of the 109 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/100
Grantees still filing
59/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RALEIGH YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $334,500 · OtherRALEIGH YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATIONFAMILIES MOVING FORWARD: $160,000 · OtherFAMILIES MOVING FORWARDCOUNTY OF MITCHELL: $150,000 · OtherCOUNTY OF MITCHELLHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $130,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INCCOUNTY OF AVERY: $125,000 · OtherCOUNTY OF AVERYTOWN OF CANTON: $100,000 · OtherTOWN OF CANTON+37 more: $764,500 · Other+37 moreTHE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $195,000 · Human ServicesTHE GREEN CHAIR PROJECTINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $180,000 · Human ServicesINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLEREAD AND FEED: $160,000 · Human ServicesREAD AND FEEDSTEPUP MINISTRY: $150,000 · Human ServicesSTEPUP MINISTRYThe Western Youth Network Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesThe Western Youth Network IncTRIANGLE SPECIAL HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $95,000 · Human ServicesTRIANGLE SPECIAL HOCKEY ASSOCI…ONLY HOPE WNC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE TRIANGLE: $45,000 · Human Services+12 more: $200,000 · Human Services+12 moreVALLE CRUCIS PARK INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsVALLE CRUCIS P…Asheville Hockey League Inc: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsAsheville Hock…WINSTON-SALEM YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $74,500 · Recreation & SportsWINSTON-SALEM …TRIANGLE YOUTH HOCKEY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $67,500 · Recreation & SportsTRIANGLE YOUTH…GREENSBORO YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $66,000 · Recreation & SportsGREENSBORO YOU…WILMINGTON SEAHAWKS HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $46,000 · Recreation & SportsWILMINGTON SEA…CAPE FEAR YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsCAPE FEAR YOUT…NORTH CAROLINA AMATEUR SPORTS INC: $22,500 · Recreation & SportsUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $22,500 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $27,500 · Recreation & SportsUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · EducationUNC HEALTH F…DURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL INC: $110,000 · EducationDURHAM NATIV…THE HILL CENTER INC: $60,000 · EducationTHE HILL CEN…THE ALICE AYCOCK POE CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION: $35,000 · EducationTHE ALICE AY…BOOK HARVEST: $25,000 · EducationLUCY DANIELS CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD: $20,000 · Education+7 more: $75,000 · Education+7 moreMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionA PLACE AT THE TABLE: $20,000 · Food & NutritionNourishNC Inc: $15,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionNorth East Wake Backpack Buddies: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE: $25,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 · HealthME FINE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthNeighborHealth Center Inc: $15,000 · HealthEL FUTURO INC: $15,000 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthHAVEN HOUSE INC: $10,000 · HealthRECEPTIONS FOR RESEARCH THE GREG OLSEN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthORANGE COUNTY RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $10,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATION: $8,350 · HealthDURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS - NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PINES INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE DANIEL CENTER FOR MATH & SCIENCE INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,764,000Human Services$1,175,000Recreation & Sports$546,500Education$475,000Food & Nutrition$135,000Health$133,350Youth Development$110,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRALEIGH YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $334,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetTHE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $195,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetINTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $180,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILIES MOVING FORWARD: $160,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPUP MINISTRY: $150,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $130,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL INC: $110,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetThe Western Youth Network Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTRIANGLE SPECIAL HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $95,000 over 6y, 35% of budgetAsheville Hockey League Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetWINSTON-SALEM YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $74,500 over 6y, 17% of budgetTRIANGLE YOUTH HOCKEY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $67,500 over 5y, 42% of budgetGREENSBORO YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $66,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetTHE HILL CENTER INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE REX HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILMINGTON SEAHAWKS HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $46,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE TRIANGLE: $45,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCAPE FEAR YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $45,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASSISTANCE LEAGUE ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $45,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetFOUNDATION OF HOPE FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF MENTAL ILLNESS: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSAFECHILD: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA: $35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMARBLES KIDS MUSEUM: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ALICE AYCOCK POE CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNOTE IN THE POCKET INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTABLE MINISTRIES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NC STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOOK HARVEST: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF WATAUGA COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $25,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S FLIGHT OF HOPE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA AMATEUR SPORTS INC: $22,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $22,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ARTS IN ACTION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetA PLACE AT THE TABLE: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCarolina Small Business Development Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLUCY DANIELS CENTER FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPASSAGE HOME INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGE II SPORTS INC: $17,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CARYING PLACE INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTAMMY LYNN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC96.6× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Duke University Health System Inc · Credit Suisse Americas Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · John William Pope Foundation · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · The Cannon 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Carolina Hurricanes Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Carolina Hurricanes Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 109 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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