· Public charity
Carolina Small Business Development Fund
Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 88 grants below total $2,189,646 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,254,645 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $64,999 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAREERPRO OF NC INC | $30,000 |
| THE HORSE FARM LLC | $30,000 |
| CHAMPIONS BARS AND MORE | $30,000 |
| LEVRIDGE WELLNESS CENTER PC | $30,000 |
| NORTH FOURTH INC | $30,000 |
| NC FIT CAPITAL LLC | $30,000 |
| CLYDE COOPER'S BARBECUE | $30,000 |
| MELROSE KNITTING INC | $30,000 |
| BLOWN AWAY INC | $30,000 |
| SKY LINK SHUTTLE LLC | $30,000 |
| JMR KITCHENS LLC | $30,000 |
| BITTERSWEET COFFEE INC | $30,000 |
| CRANK ARM BREWING COMPANY | $30,000 |
| NEXT MEDICAL DESIGN LLC | $30,000 |
| PRANZO GROUP LLC | $30,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 21% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2021–2023.
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 2021–2023, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 211 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.