North Carolina · Public charity
Center for Community Self-Help
The Centers mission is to create and protect ownership for all, especially people of color, women, rural residents and low wealth families and communities.
- $4.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $3.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $223,750
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,221,584
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 12
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $57M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Center for Community Self-Help funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $497k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 10 | $3.3M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $1.8M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $6.4M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $1.7M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $3.4M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $2.1M | 17% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $1.5M | 43% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-Help Ventures Fund | $9,946,355 | 8 | 6% |
| Self-Help Federal CU | $5,139,521 | 8 | n/a |
| Self-Help Credit Union | $2,323,832 | 8 | 1% |
| Self-Help Community Development Corp | $2,212,273 | 8 | 45% |
| Center for Responsible Lending | $660,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation | $250,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Northwest Side Community Development Corporation | $250,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Resurrection Project | $182,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Lawndale Christian Development Corp | $182,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Richmond Heritage FCU | $125,436 | 3 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Self-Help Ventures Fund | $9,946,355 | 8 | 6% |
| Self-Help Federal CU | $5,139,521 | 8 | n/a |
| Self-Help Credit Union | $2,323,832 | 8 | 1% |
| Self-Help Community Development Corp | $2,212,273 | 8 | 45% |
| Center for Responsible Lending | $660,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation | $250,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Northwest Side Community Development Corporation | $250,000 | 3 | 2% |
| The Resurrection Project | $182,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Lawndale Christian Development Corp | $182,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Richmond Heritage FCU | $125,436 | 3 | n/a |
| Communities In Partnership | $102,200 | 1 | 29% |
| The Kenan-Flagler Business School Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pee Wee Homes | $83,731 | 3 | 30% |
| Hope Center Foundation | $70,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Nc Assistive Technology | $63,835 | 2 | n/a |
| By The People | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Institute for Southern Studies Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| United for A Fair Economy Inc | $20,688 | 2 | 1% |
| Casa | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jessie Ball duPont Religious Charitable & Educational Fund | $12,015 | 1 | 0% |
| Marian Cheek Jackson Center | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| McNaught & Clements PLLC | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Center for Community Self-Help supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Center for Community Self-Help
- How much does Center for Community Self-Help give?
- Center for Community Self-Help reported 10 itemized grants totaling $3,300,528, out of $4,442,353 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Center for Community Self-Help fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (59%), Human Services (24%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are Center for Community Self-Help's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Self-Help Ventures Fund ($9.9M), Self-Help Federal CU ($5.1M), Self-Help Credit Union ($2.3M).
- Does Center for Community Self-Help fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Center for Community Self-Help?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is Center for Community Self-Help based?
- Center for Community Self-Help is based in NC.
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