· Public charity
Carolinas Credit Union Foundation
To provide educational scholarships, and to provide assistance to credit unions in north and south carolina, and special projects.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 52 grants below total $919,330 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,402,166 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,482,836 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $177k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $500k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $243k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNC SCHOOL OF GOVT | $100,000 |
| VICTORY JUNCTION GANG | $82,070 |
| NC ASSOC OF REGION COUN OF GVMN | $60,504 |
| FINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF PIEDMONT | $35,000 |
| SOUTHERN ALAMANCE FAMILY EMPOW | $35,000 |
| TINY HOUSE COMMUNITY DEVELPMENT | $32,000 |
| CAROLINA CROSS CONNECTION | $25,000 |
| I AM LIGHT MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| THE RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $25,000 |
| THE JOEL FUND | $25,000 |
| CATERPILLAR MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| ONE DOZEM WHO CARE | $25,000 |
| ALBEMARLE AREA UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| SECOND HOME SUPPORT | $25,000 |
| AURA HOME WOMEN VETS | $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 (FY18–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $709k 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
- VJVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC5× · 2018–2024 · $528k · revenue +108%
- UWUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA3× · 2020–2024 · $220k · revenue +102%
- NCNORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $210k · revenue +194%
Funded once
- VJVICTORY JUNCTIONone grant, 2021 · $107k
- NCNORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -14%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAKE COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +38%
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.
Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…
Charlotte works serves job-seekers and businesses by providing resources to develop a skilled workforce that meets employer needs. the organization offers job-search workshops, individual coaching, networking opportunities, and training…
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…
The mission of union county crisis assistance ministry is to help families with an urgent financial emergency to meet essential needs and to, once again, become self-sufficient. the primary objective of the crisis intervention program is…
The mission of Charlotte Family Housing is to empower working families experiencing homelessness to achieve long-term self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services, and advocacy.
Carolina Human Reinvestment mission is to "Identify and serve the need of the youth and their families in our community "
Moving families at risk of or experiencing homelessness into sustainable, permanent housing in our community through a continuum of support services.
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
To help all union county nc residents gain access to affordable housing, decent jobs, and to develop a sense of security.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Plm Families Together Inc and the most unlike its peers is Second Home Support Network. 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 29 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
205 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. 205 of the 240 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 VICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds PLM FAMILIES TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA RESTAURANT AND LODGING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTIAN HELP CENTER OF PERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health-Upstate ↗
- Who funds KRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds SE RALEIGH PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Ministries of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM TRADES INC ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC ↗
- Who funds REDISCOVERING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES & RECREATION ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WOMENS CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DURHAM AND ORANGE COUNTIES ↗
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: The Leon Levine Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke University Health System Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation
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 Credit Union Foundation 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.
- Farm Aid Inc — 100% 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.