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Durham Congregations in Action

Dcia organizes communities of diverse faiths to work for racial justice, social equity, and human dignity.

$117k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$415kHealth$312kHousing & Shelter$125kHuman Services$46kCivil Rights$20kPublic Benefit$9kCommunity Improvement$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $49,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $116,566 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $67,566 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$130k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NC Poor Peoples Campaign$20,000
Urban Ministries of Durham$15,000
Meals on Wheels$7,500
Believers United for Progress$6,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%StepUp Durham: $1k → 11%Believers United for Progress: $46k → 11%Believers United for Progress: $1k → 11%Believers United for Progress: $7k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$707k · 14 repeat orgs$228k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
39

Total granted

$707k
$201k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+23%

Still filing today

57%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • Urban Ministries of Durham Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $128k · revenue +65%
  • DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +26%
  • AS
    Autism Support and Advocacy Center
    2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • NC
    NEHEMIAH CHRISTIAN CENTER CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST
    one grant, 2022 · $45k
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
  • BF
    BELL-YEAGER FREE WILL BAPTIST CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $11k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Cabarrus Cooperative Christian Ministry

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…

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2
Durhamcares Inc

Help Durham residents love neighbors.

Philanthropy
3
Durham Home Inc
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4
Durham Community Land Trustees Inc

Build strong communities by developing, managing, and advocating for permanent affordable housing that provides durham residents with low to moderate incomes a stable foundation for achieving economic security.

Housing & Shelter
5
Feeding Charlotte Inc

Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…

Food & Nutrition
6
Union County Community Shelter

Provide food, shelter and instruction to those individuals and families in need within the community. Promote a pathway to self sufficiency which includes income stabilization and permanent housing.

Human Services
7
The Community Table Inc

To provide nutritious meals to the hungry and food insecure in Jackson County, NC in a welcoming environment. We do this through our soup kitchen, food pantry and community garden programs.

Food & Nutrition
8
Serving Our Neighbors

Serving Our Neighbors is dedicated to reducing food insecurity in Davie County by rescuing surplus food from local grocery stores and distributing it directly to individuals and families in need. Through compassion, collaboration, and…

Food & Nutrition
9
Mother Hubbard's Cupboard of Wilmington Inc

Mother Hubbard's Cupboard serves the hungry in the Wilmington area through distribution of emergency food. This service is provided without discrimination by volunteers in collarboration with community organizations and businesses with…

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10
Restorative Transitions Inc

Re-entry Program in Durham NC

Crime & Legal
11
Nourish Up

To reduce the incidence of hunger and malnutrition in Mecklenburg County by procuring and distributing groceries to people facing economic hardships and to deliver daily meals in a caring and friendly manner to individuals in our community…

Human Services
12
Restoring Hope Center Inc

Restoring Hope Center, Inc. is a benovolence organization operating in Laurinburg, NC. The organization has benevolence programs providing food and supplies to the local area, supplies other smaller like-kind organizations, conducts a…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Housing for New Hope; the most unlike its peers is Lincoln Community Health Center Foundation. 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

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOCKED UP TO LIVING LIFE: $307,637 · OtherLOCKED UP TO LIVING LIFEUrban Ministries of Durham Inc: $128,450 · OtherUrban Ministries of Durham IncMeals on Wheels: $53,066 · OtherMeals on WheelsIglesia Presbiteriana Emanuel: $51,166 · OtherIglesia Presbiteriana EmanuelLA SEMILLA NFC UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $49,000 · OtherLA SEMILLA NFC UNITED METHODIST CHURCHNEHEMIAH CHRISTIAN CENTER CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST: $45,000 · OtherNEHEMIAH CHRISTIAN CENTER CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST+29 more: $144,094 · Other+29 moreBELIEVERS UNITED FOR PROGRESS: $53,566 · Human Services+1 more: $1,066 · Human ServicesMeals on Wheels of Durham Inc: $7,500 · Food & NutritionFARMER FOODSHARE INC: $7,000 · Food & NutritionTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC: $6,500 · Food & NutritionURBAN COMMUNITY AGRI-NOMICS UCAN: $6,066 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionPORCH-Durham: $5,000 · Food & NutritionOpen Table Ministry Inc: $2,566 · Food & NutritionWalltown Neighborhood Ministries Inc: $11,066 · Community ImprovementEL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCommunities In Partnership: $2,000 · Community ImprovementTHE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND: $1,066 · Community ImprovementCommunity Health Coalition: $11,000 · HealthAutism Support and Advocacy Center: $6,066 · HealthLincoln Community Health Center Foundation: $2,000 · HealthDURHAM TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8,000 · EducationDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,066 · EducationSTUDENT U: $1,066 · EducationSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $8,957 · Public Benefit
Other$778,413Human Services$54,632Food & Nutrition$39,632Community Improvement$24,132Health$19,066Education$10,132Public Benefit$8,957

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUrban Ministries of Durham Inc: $128,450 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBELIEVERS UNITED FOR PROGRESS: $53,566 over 3y, 15% of budgetDURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE: $19,566 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWalltown Neighborhood Ministries Inc: $11,066 over 2y, 13% of budgetCommunity Health Coalition: $11,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetEL CENTRO HISPANO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $8,957 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDURHAM TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Durham Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFARMER FOODSHARE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST ANDREW INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Support and Advocacy Center: $6,066 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY AGRI-NOMICS UCAN: $6,066 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetHOUSING FOR NEW HOPE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORCH-Durham: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetREALITY MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILIES MOVING FORWARD: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHRESHOLD INC: $2,566 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOpen Table Ministry Inc: $2,566 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCommunities In Partnership: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLincoln Community Health Center Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetRURAL ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION INTERNATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND: $1,066 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $1,066 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,066 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENT U: $1,066 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPUP DURHAM: $1,066 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Duke UniversityDuke University Healt…Triangle Community Fo…United Way of the Gre…Food Bank of Central …Durham Merchants Asso…The Forest At Duke IncFox Family Foundation…North Carolina Commun…The Leon Levine Found…Z Smith Reynolds Foun…Duke Energy Foundation
Duke UniversityNC54.3× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke University · Duke University Health System Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc · Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundation · The Forest At Duke Inc · Fox Family Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Durham Congregations in Action funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Durham Congregations in Action. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    9report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Durham Congregations in Action?

    Find your warmest path to Durham Congregations in Action 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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