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Carolinaeast Foundation

Promote health in our region, support the healthcare community, assist individuals with healthcare needs.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$111k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Health$11MHuman Services$188kFood & Nutrition$138kHousing & Shelter$116kReligion$42kEmployment$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kInternational$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $367,324, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,161,048 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $793,724 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 $10k5 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $218k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $111k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAROLINAEAST MEDICAL CENTER$111,136
HOPE CLINIC$30,000
SECU FAMILY HOUSE AT UNC HOSPITALS$30,000
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SERVICES$24,000
COASTAL WOMEN'S SHELTER$20,000
BACKPACK BLESSINGS$18,000
IMAGINE PAMLICO$17,728
CHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS$15,000
YMCA - CAMP SEAGULLSEAFARER$15,000
CRYSTAL COAST CANCER REHAB CENTER$15,000
HOPE RECOVERY HOMES$12,960
THE BIKE BOX PROJECT$10,000
TRIED BY FIRE$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$9,000
YMCA - TWIN RIVERS$8,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $139k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 12%COASTAL WOMEN'S SHELTER: $20k → 14%YMCA - CAMP SEAGULLSEAFARER: $15k → 8%COASTAL WOMEN'S SHELTER: $15k → 14%TRUE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 14%YMCA - CAMP SEAGULLSEAFARER: $15k → 8%COASTAL WOMEN'S SHELTER: $10k → 14%YMCA - CAMP SEAGULLSEAFARER: $15k → 8%YMCA CAMP SEA GULL CAMP SEAFARER: $6k → 16%CRAVEN COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $9k → 14%REVIVING LIVES MINISTRIES OF NEW BERN INC: $8k → 14%REVIVING LIVES MINISTRIES OF NEW BERN INC: $6k → 14%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 25 repeat orgs$191k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
19

Total granted

$11M
$163k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+17%

Still filing today

84%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentReligionEducationOther
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

  • HC
    HOPE CLINIC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +30%
  • RC
    Religious Community Services of New Bern
    9× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +247%
  • BB
    BACKPACK BLESSINGS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CRAVEN COUNTY NC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -73%
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA DENTAL HEALTH FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA DENTAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +165%
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
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
2
Restoration House Wnc

The restoration house wnc seeks to provide a holistic approach to restoring life and hope to the outcasts and others in need of healing who come to us for help.

Health
3
Restoring Hope Center Inc

Restoring Hope Center, Inc. is a benovolence organization operating in Laurinburg, NC. The organization has benevolence programs providing food and supplies to the local area, supplies other smaller like-kind organizations, conducts a…

Human Services
4
Pardoned by Christ

To restore lives affected by incarceration. To reach out to people affected by incarceration, who will receive the love and provision that is found in Jesus Christ. To restore individuals and their families to our communities through…

Crime & Legal
5
The Open Door of Perquimans County Inc

The mission of the open door of perquimans county, inc. is to eliminate hunger and improve the health and well-being of our community through access to healthy and nutritious foods, education, and advocacy.

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6
Free Clinic of Rockingham County Inc

To provide for the basic medical and dental needs of the working poor of Rockingham County through volunteer medical professionals.

Health
7
United Way of Coastal Carolina Inc

The united way of coastal carolina, inc. strives to meet the current and emerging human needs in craven, carteret, jones, and pamlico counties by mobilizing the resources of community organizations, agencies, recipients, and volunteers.

Philanthropy
8
Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Education and Research Foundation
Health
9
Wnc Lighthouse Inc

The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…

Human Services
10
Warren-Vance Community Health Center Inc

The clinic provides primary healthcare in a spirit of compassion to limited income persons who are without adequate health insurance benefits in warren and vance counties, north carolina.

Health
11
Nc Dog Rescue Organization
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12
The Center for Disordered Eating dba Carolina Resource Center for Eating

Developing and connecting resources to assist and advocate for those impacted by eating disorders.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastern Carolina Young Men's Christian Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mount Carmel Helps 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

37 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. 37 of the 47 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
28/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAROLINAEAST MEDICAL CENTER: $9,510,872 · OtherCAROLINAEAST MEDICAL CENTER+24 more: $727,534 · Other+24 moreHOPE CLINIC: $223,000 · HealthSECU FAMILY HOUSE AT UNC HOSPITALS: $139,000 · HealthMERCI CLINIC INC: $99,000 · HealthTHE MIRIAM INC: $54,600 · HealthREALIZE U 252 INC: $27,500 · HealthCRYSTAL COAST AUTISM CENTER: $23,500 · Health+2 more: $20,000 · HealthCOASTAL WOMEN'S SHELTER INC: $62,050 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $51,300 · Human ServicesCRAVEN COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION INC: $24,883 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator: $13,500 · Human ServicesTRUE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesBACKPACK BLESSINGS INC: $94,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $31,000 · Food & NutritionCARTERET LOCAL FOOD NETWORK: $5,200 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $66,217 · Youth DevelopmentVOICES TOGETHER INC: $22,300 · Youth DevelopmentLOAVES AND FISHES OF BEAUFORT INC: $29,000 · ReligionMOUNT CARMEL HELPS INC: $13,250 · ReligionBIKE BOX PROJECT: $18,600 · Philanthropy
Other$10,238,406Health$586,600Human Services$171,733Food & Nutrition$130,200Youth Development$88,517Religion$42,250Philanthropy$18,600

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 budgetHOPE CLINIC: $223,000 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetReligious Community Services of New Bern: $195,283 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetSECU FAMILY HOUSE AT UNC HOSPITALS: $139,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetMERCI CLINIC INC: $99,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBACKPACK BLESSINGS INC: $94,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC: $66,217 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetREVIVING LIVES MINISTRIES OF NEW BE: $62,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetCOASTAL WOMEN'S SHELTER INC: $62,050 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetEastern Carolina Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $56,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MIRIAM INC: $54,600 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $51,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE RECOVERY HOMES INC: $39,960 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $31,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES OF BEAUFORT INC: $29,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetREALIZE U 252 INC: $27,500 over 3y, 9.3% of budgetCRYSTAL COAST CANCER REHAB CENTER: $25,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetCRAVEN COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION INC: $24,883 over 2y, 12% of budgetCRYSTAL COAST AUTISM CENTER: $23,500 over 4y, 20% of budgetVOICES TOGETHER INC: $22,300 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBIKE BOX PROJECT: $18,600 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetEASTERN PREGNANCY INFORMATION CLINIC: $18,035 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CRAVEN COUNTY NC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA DENTAL HEALTH FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCharity Navigator: $13,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT CARMEL HELPS INC: $13,250 over 1y, 24% of budgetTRUE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAMLICO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTRIED BY FIRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTOWNSHIP SEVEN EMS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetONSLOW COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $6,044 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH REFUGEE MINISTRY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCARTERET LOCAL FOOD NETWORK: $5,200 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCRAVEN LITERACY COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Harold H Bate Fou…North Carolina Commun…The Cannon Foundation…United Way of Coastal…International Paper C…Christ Episcopal Chur…Foundation for the Ca…Triangle Community Fo…Ballard Family Founda…The Thomas B and Robe…Anonymous Trust U/A D…Duke Energy Foundation
The Harold H Bate Foundation IncNC49.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Harold H Bate Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of Coastal Carolina Inc · International Paper Company Foundation · Christ Episcopal Church Trust · Foundation for the Carolinas · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Ballard Family Foundation · The Thomas B and Robertha K Coleman Foundation Inc · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008 · Duke Energy Foundation

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 Carolinaeast Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carolinaeast Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    8report 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
    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.

    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 47 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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