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Democracy North Carolina
Democracy North Carolina's mission is to strengthen democratic structures, build power among disenfranchised communities, and inspire confidence in a transformed political process that works for all.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $327,943 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $357,942 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $29,999 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of your 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.
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 +103% since the first grant, against -55% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2024 · $641k · revenue ×25- CCCOMMON CAUSE3× · 2022–2024 · $237k · revenue +94%
- CCCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND3× · 2017–2019 · $228k · revenue +266%
Funded once
- WFWildegeest Foundationone grant, 2020 · $300k
- NCNORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INCone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -44%
- TPThe Peoples Alliance Fundone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -90%
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.
Democracy North Carolina's mission is to strengthen democratic structures, build power among disenfranchised communities, and inspire confidence in a transformed political process that works for all.
North Carolinians for Redistricting Reform (NC4RR) is a bipartisan nonprofit working to improve North Carolina's representative democracy through redistricting reform. NC4RR's objective is to help pass a state constitutional amendment in…
The North Carolina Information Innovation Fund NCIIF will educate the residents of North Carolina on civic duty and election related matters, including the importance of voting in elections, national policies impacting North Carolina, how…
To educate the public on how to build a democracy where everyone participates, every vote is counted, voting rights are fully enforced, and everyone's voice is heard; to work toward a system where everyone has a say in decisions that…
Non-PartisanVoter Educ Advocacy
Amplify unrepresented voices in north carolina elections through voter education and registration.
Action institute nc is a community organization and citizens action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and…
To oppose a colorado statewide ballot initiative to join the national popular vote compact
North Carolina Voices provides information to North Carolina voters to inform them on social issues affecting the State through digital ads.
In collaboration with the legal community, NCEAJF empowers North Carolinians to navigate the civil justice system.
Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…
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.
13 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. 13 of the 23 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
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 NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP CITIZEN LOBBY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Peoples Alliance Fund ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Emancipate NC Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds NC For the People Action (formerly 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.
Open a dossier: Blueprint North Carolina · Tides Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 organization 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.
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.