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Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$504k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0174% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.

Health$713kHuman Services$290kEducation$65kFood & Nutrition$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kOther$398k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $196k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $300k
$48,077
Median grant
2
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CABARRUS PUBLIC HEALTH INTEREST$50,000
GREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC$50,000
THE CAROLINAS FOUNDATION FOR HOSPICE AND HOME CARE$50,000
SOUTHLIGHT HEALTHCARE$50,000
VETERANS BRIDGE HOME INC$50,000
WESTERN CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC$50,000
MCLEOD MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$48,077
UNITY HEALTH ON MAIN$45,314
DEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC$39,858
THE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC$20,000
ANDERSON FREE CLINIC INC$18,350
HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARECENTER$12,750
CAREGIVER MENTAL WELLNESS INC$12,148
BRIDGES FOR END-OF-LIFE$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%TENDER HEARTS GIRLS HOME INC: $25k → 8%BRIDGES FOR END-OF-LIFE: $8k → 12%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARECENTER: $13k → 15%THE HOSPICE & HOME CARE FOUNDATION OF NORTH CAROLI: $50k → 8%CAROLINA CARING INC: $19k → 12%ADULTS WORKING AND ADVOCATING FOR KIDS EMPOWERMENT: $50k → 18%CAROLINA CARING INC: $5k → 12%ADULTS WORKING AND ADVOCATING FOR KIDS EMPOWERMENT: $50k → 18%THE CAROLINAS FOUNDATION FOR HOSPICE AND HOME CARE: $50k → 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$508k · 7 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
18

Total granted

$508k
$684k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
0%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $344k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • AW
    Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +50%
  • TC
    THE CAROLINAS FOUNDATION FOR HOSPICE AND HOME CARE
    2× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +794% · 86% of their budget
  • DEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $87k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMMUNITY CARE CENTER FOR FORSYTH COUNTY
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • WW
    WARRIOR WOD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -59%
  • CI
    CHILDREN IN CRISIS IN DORCHESTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
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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2
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
3
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
4
Grace Clinic of Yadkin Valley

Provide medical care to low income and uninsured adults.

Human Services
5
The Care Clinic Inc

To provide primary health care for limited income persons residing in cumberland county, nc and surrounding areas who are without adequate health insurance benefits

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6
First Choice Community Health Ctrs

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

Health
7
Virginia B Andes Volunteer Community Clinic Inc

Provide no-cost volunteer medical, pharmacy and wellness services to the under-served in charlotte county

Health
8
Tri-County Community Health Council Inc

Provider of comprehensive, compassionate, high quality primary medical, dental, pharmacy and behavioral health services in southeastern north carolina.

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9
Carolina Health Centers Inc

Carolina health centers offers primary care and patient support services to improve health, well-being and quality of life throughout the communities we serve.

Health
10
Granville Health Inc

The purpose of the corporation is to engage in charitable efforts and to support granville health system in providing healthcare and related services to the citizens and residents of granville county and the surrounding community.

Health
11
Samaritan Health Clinic of Pickens County

To provide free medical care and discount prescriptions to those in need in pickens county

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12
Wnc Health Network Inc

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

Health

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

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%7%<5yr17%7%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr13%32%20–35yr11%36%35–55yr13%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%4%<5yr17%7%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr13%34%20–35yr11%32%35–55yr13%9%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
16%
4,815/30,384

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 35 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
15/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $86,938 · HealthDEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA INCCOMMUNITY CARE CENTER FOR FORSYTH COUNTY — $50,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY CARE CENTER FOR FORSYTH COUNTYWARRIOR WOD FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthWARRIOR WOD FOUNDATIONNORTH CAROLINA HARM REDUCTION COALITION — $50,000 · HealthNORTH CAROLINA HARM REDUCTION COALITIONWestern Carolina Medical Society Foundation Inc — $50,000 · HealthWestern Carolina Medical Society Foundation IncSOUTHLIGHT HEALTHCARE INC — $50,000 · HealthSOUTHLIGHT HEALTHCARE INCCABARRUS PUBLIC HEALTH INTEREST — $50,000 · HealthCABARRUS PUBLIC HEALTH INTERESTLIONS VISION SERVICES A SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITY — $50,000 · HealthLIONS VISION SERVICES A SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITYMCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION — $48,077 · HealthMCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATIONUNITY HEALTH ON MAIN — $45,314 · HealthUNITY HEALTH ON MAINHANDS OF HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $45,000 · HealthHANDS OF HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INCSHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC — $39,000 · HealthSHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INCOPEN DOOR CLINIC OF ALAMANCE COUNTY — $35,000 · HealthABCCM DOCTORS' MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $25,330 · Health+3 more — $38,350 · Health+3 moreGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $136,000 · OtherGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINI…CHILDREN IN CRISIS IN DORCHESTER — $50,000 · OtherCHILDREN IN CRISIS IN DORCHES…SOUTHWESTERN CHILD DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION INC — $50,000 · OtherSOUTHWESTERN CHILD DEVELOPMEN…HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $50,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INCVETERANS BRIDGE HOME INC — $50,000 · OtherVETERANS BRIDGE HOME INCSOUTH CAROLINA IMMUNIZATION COALITION — $49,980 · OtherSOUTH CAROLINA IMMUNIZATION C…+1 more — $12,148 · OtherAdults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesAdults Working & Advo…THE CAROLINAS FOUNDATION FOR HOSPICE AND HOME CARE — $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE CAROLINAS FOUNDAT…Tender Hearts Girls Home — $25,000 · Human ServicesTender Hearts Girls H…CAROLINA CARING INC — $24,646 · Human ServicesCAROLINA CARING INCEMMANUWHEEL — $20,500 · Human ServicesEMMANUWHEELHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARECENTER — $12,750 · Human Services+1 more — $7,500 · Human ServicesSMART START OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY — $35,000 · EducationCOMPASS OF CAROLINA INC — $30,000 · EducationTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC — $40,000 · Food & NutritionPARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING — $30,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Health$713,009Other$398,128Human Services$290,396Education$65,000Food & Nutrition$40,000Public Safety & Disaster$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREENVILLE FREE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $136,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAdults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetTHE CAROLINAS FOUNDATION FOR HOSPICE AND HOME CARE — $100,000 over 2y, 86% of budgetDEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $86,938 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CENTER FOR FORSYTH COUNTY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWARRIOR WOD FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA HARM REDUCTION COALITION — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN CHILD DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHLIGHT HEALTHCARE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCABARRUS PUBLIC HEALTH INTEREST — $50,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetLIONS VISION SERVICES A SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITY — $50,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetHOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHANDS OF HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $45,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC — $39,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetSMART START OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY — $35,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetOPEN DOOR CLINIC OF ALAMANCE COUNTY — $35,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPARTNERS FOR ACTIVE LIVING — $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetABCCM DOCTORS' MEDICAL CLINIC INC — $25,330 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTender Hearts Girls Home — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCAROLINA CARING INC — $24,646 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMMANUWHEEL — $20,500 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetAIDS LEADERSHIP FOOTHILLS AREA ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF LAURENS COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBRIDGES OF HOPE — $7,500 over 1y, 2.3% 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.

The Leon Levine Found…Dogwood Health TrustDirect ReliefFoundation for the Ca…Duke Energy FoundationCentral Carolina Comm…Sisters of Charity Fo…The Cannon Foundation…The Community Foundat…Americares Foundation…North Carolina Commun…North Carolina Associ…
The Leon Levine FoundationNC25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Leon Levine Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Direct Relief · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Central Carolina Community Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Americares Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · North Carolina Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Inc

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 Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation?

    Find your warmest path to Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 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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