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· Public charity

Firsthealth of the Carolinas Inc

To service the community's total health care needs.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$1.1MPublic Benefit$254kEducation$200kPhilanthropy$75kFood & Nutrition$30kHuman Services$24kYouth Development$20kHousing & Shelter$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $206k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FOUNDATION OF FIRSTHEALTH INC$2,000,000
MOORE FREE & CHARITABLE CLINIC$100,000
MOORE COUNTY$45,635
VILLAGE OF PINEHURST$27,480
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$16,750
AMERICAN RED CROSS - DISASTER RELIEF FUND$16,650
NC HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$16,650
UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA$16,650
NC BAPTISTS ON MISSION$16,650
NC FOUNDATION FOR NURSING$16,650
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SANDHILLS$13,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY$10,000
MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$6,600
HOKE COUNTY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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%HOKE COUNTY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER: $5k → 15%RICHMOND COUNTY SAMARITAN COLONY: $5k → 23%Montgomery County Council on Aging: $10k → 16%MONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $10k → 16%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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 14 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
12

Total granted

$1.9M
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

64%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE NC SANDHILLS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue +7%
  • CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue +26%
  • SC
    SANFORD-LEE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR PROSPERITY
    2× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • HC
    Hoke County Sheriff's Department
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
  • HC
    HOKE COUNTY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • MC
    MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -13%
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
Carolina Community Care Inc

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,…

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2
North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc

To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.

Health
3
Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc

Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.

Food & Nutrition
4
Monroe-Union County Community

To help all union county nc residents gain access to affordable housing, decent jobs, and to develop a sense of security.

Housing & Shelter
5
Hickory County Cares

Food distribution to the needy

Human Services
6
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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7
North Carolina Community Action Association

To encourage, promote, and stimulate the community development of human resources, principally to eliminate poverty through the operation of community action programs.

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8
Sandhills Community Care Network Inc

Prior to dissolution on July 8, 2019, CCS sought to improve the health and quality of life of the patients it served by collaborating with patients, health care providers, hospitals, health departments, community partners, and departments…

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9
Pender County Christian Svcs Inc

To minister to human need in the name of christ and to offer assistance to the needy in the form of a counseling,community clothes closet, food pantry and limited emergency fund operation.

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10
North Carolina Association of Pharmacists

The north carolina association of pharmacists primary purpose is to unite, serve, and advance the profession of pharmacy for the benefit of society in north carolina.

Community Improvement
11
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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12
Charlotte Medical Dental and Pharmaceutical Association
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sandhills-Moore Coalition for Human Care Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sanford Farmers Market. 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 40 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
11/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FOUNDATION OF FIRSTHEALTH INC: $2,000,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION OF FIRSTHEALTH INCCOUNTY OF MOORE: $375,080 · OtherCOUNTY OF MOOREVILLAGE OF PINEHURST: $239,840 · OtherVILLAGE OF PINEHURSTSANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $190,000 · OtherSANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC+23 more: $354,418 · Other+23 moreMOORE FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINIC INC: $795,000 · HealthMOORE FREE AND CHARITA…+1 more: $16,650 · HealthMONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL ON A INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHoke Domestic Violence & Sexual Assualt Center Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN COLONY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesOUR DAILY BREAD CHRISTIAN FOOD MINISTRY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SANDHILLS INC: $23,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL CAROLINA: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $16,750 · ReligionOUTREACH MISSION INC: $10,000 · ReligionUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $16,650 · PhilanthropyNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $20,000 · Education
Other$3,159,338Health$811,650Human Services$35,000Youth Development$33,000Religion$26,750Philanthropy$26,650Education$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF FIRSTHEALTH INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMOORE FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINIC INC: $795,000 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetSANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $190,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MOORE COUNTY: $65,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SANDHILLS INC: $23,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY COUNCIL ON A INC: $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF THE NC SANDHILLS INC: $13,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSANFORD-LEE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR PROSPERITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSANDHILLS-MOORE COALITION FOR HUMAN CARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOUTREACH MISSION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL CAROLINA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEST CHATHAM CARING COMMUNITIES: $7,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHoke Domestic Violence & Sexual Assualt Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSAMARITAN COLONY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW HORIZONS LIFE AND FAMILY SERVIC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCarolina Animal Rescue & Adoption Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD CHRISTIAN FOOD MINISTRY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFRIEND TO FRIEND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 Energy FoundationThe Cannon Foundation…North Carolina Commun…Food Bank of Central …Foundation for the Ca…Triangle Community Fo…Pinehurst Community F…United Way of Richmon…Gordy-Steidinger Foun…John and Mary Camp Fo…The Winston-Salem Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…
Duke Energy FoundationNC23.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Pinehurst Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Richmond County Inc · Gordy-Steidinger Foundation · John and Mary Camp Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Ayco Charitable 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 Firsthealth of the Carolinas Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Firsthealth of the Carolinas Inc. 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%1%3%4%5%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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