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· Public charity
Democracy North Carolina
To strengthen democratic structures, build power among disenfranchised communities, and inspire confidence in a transformed political process that works for all.
$358k
Granted FY2024
6
Grants
1
Communities
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of Democracy North Carolina’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2024 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Common Cause Education Fnd-North Carolina$75,000
- NC PIRG Educational Fund$75,000
- Southern Vision Alliance$75,000
- NC Black Alliance$39,585
- Southern Coalition for Social Jutice$38,977
- You Can Vote$24,381
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 56% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 8 repeat orgs$760k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against -55% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
8
14
Total granted
$1.7M
$657k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+43%
-55%
Still filing today
88%
14%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Public BenefitCivil RightsCrime & LegalEducationOther
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
Southern Vision Alliance8× · 2017–2024 · $641k · revenue +2399%- CCCommon Cause Education Fnd-North Carolina3× · 2022–2024 · $237k · revenue +6%
- CCCommon Cause Education Fund3× · 2017–2019 · $228k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- WFWildegeest Foundationone grant, 2020 · $300k
- CCCommon Cause Education Fund NCone grant, 2021 · $81k
- NENCPIRG Education Fundone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -44%
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.
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North Carolina Voter Project
Amplify unrepresented voices in north carolina elections through voter education and registration.
Civil Rights
2
North Carolina Early Education Coalition
Act as an organization to provide education, information distribution, and other materials to educate communities about the importance of high quality childhood education, especially for infants and toddlers.
Education
3
New North Carolina Project Action First
The new north carolina project's mission is to make politics represent the needs of north carolinians by investing in communities of color, expanding the engaged electorate and creating #lifelongvoters.
Civil Rights
4
Progress North Carolina Action
Progress North Carolina Action conducts research, sponsors educational activities and events, and disseminates accurate and timely information to promote the general public's understanding of ways to maintain and improve North Carolina's…
Public Benefit
5
Moving Nc Forward
To support and advocate for policies that advance economic growth, stronger schools, tolerance, and fair and legal electoral districts
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6
North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research Inc
An independent source of factual news and information for the people of North Carolina, established to inform and engage the people and support their effective citizenship.
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7
American Civil Liberties Union
The american civil liberties union foundation of northern california, inc. (aclu nc foundation) conducts litigation,policy research and advocacy, public education and community organizing in order to protect and defend civil liberties and…
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8
North Carolina Assoc of Educators Inc
To be the voice of educators in north carolina that unites, organizes, and empowers members to be advocates for educational professionals,public education and children.
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9
Forward Justice Action Network
Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educati onal and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for publi c policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…
Human Services
10
National Popular Vote
To educate the public regarding its proposal to implement a Nationwide Popular Vote Election of the President of the United States
Public Benefit
11
North Carolina League Cons Voters
Nclcv protects the health & quality of life for all north carolinians by: advocating for sound environmental policies that protect our communities, holding elected leaders accountable for their decisions, mobilizing voters to advocate for…
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12
American Civil Liberties Union of
The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. it does so through a range of legislative and…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Public Interest Research Group Educ Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Peoples Alliance Fund. 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
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,284,377Public Benefit$1,048,750Crime & Legal$43,500Education$39,585Civil Rights$34,381
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 Southern Vision Alliance ↗
- Who funds NC PIRG Educational Fund ↗
- Who funds Common Cause Education Fnd-North Carolina ↗
- Who funds Common Cause Education Fund ↗
- Who funds NC PIRG Educational Fund ↗
- Who funds NCPIRG Education Fund ↗
- Who funds Peoples Alliance Fund ↗
- Who funds Emancipate NC ↗
- Who funds NC Black Alliance ↗
- Who funds NC Voters for Clean Elections ↗
- Who funds You Can Vote ↗
- Who funds Poder NC Action ↗
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.
Blueprint North CarolinaNC22.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Blueprint North Carolina · Tides Foundation · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organisation Democracy North Carolina 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NC PIRG Educational Fund.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~107 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 3 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 562136514 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on NC PIRG Educational Fund, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 107 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 48% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Democracy North Carolina?
Find your warmest path to Democracy North Carolina through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines