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Invest in organizations that seek to strengthen communities through health and wellness, education, and economic development.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
79
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$302k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Employment$35MEducation$2.1MHealth$1.6MYouth Development$1.2MInternational$885kCommunity Improvement$677kHuman Services$574kReligion$443kOther$0
02FY2024 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k55 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+1 grant · $302k
$26,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$155M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GCF GLOBAL LEARNING LLC$302,410
RURAL OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE (FISCAL SPONSOR AREA L AHEC)$175,000
SETSER GROUP COMMUNITY$150,000
NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION$133,000
UNC CHAPEL HILL OFFICE OF SPONSORED RESEARCH$131,000
NC ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS$125,000
WAKEMED FOUNDATION$125,000
NC STATE UNIVERSITY JUNTOS PROGRAM$108,000
NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ASSOCIATION$100,000
RIP MEDICAL DEBT$98,268
UNIVERSTIY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE FOUNDATION$75,000
MARIUS MAXIMUS FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC$53,000
THE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF WAYNE COUNTY INC$51,000
MYFUTURENC$50,000
TAR RIVER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$50,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $920k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $98k → 13%BELOVED HAVEN: $15k → 9%LOWER CAPE FEAR LIFECARE: $15k → 12%CASA AZUL DE WILSON: $50k → 20%NC FIELD INC: $50k → 21%BERTIE COUNTY HIVE HOUSE: $30k → 24%PROSPERA NORTH CAROLINA: $50k → 10%CAPE FEAR VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC: $45k → 16%BERTIE COUNTY HIVE HOUSE: $15k → 24%LUMBEE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $15k → 26%CASA AZUL DE WILSON: $33k → 20%WESTERN YOUTH NETWORK: $8k → 21%PLACE OF POSSIBILITIES: $50k → 24%MEN AND WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES CDC: $50k → 21%NC FIELD INC: $25k → 21%ROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 26%MEN AND WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES CDC: $25k → 21%SUDS OF LOVE INC: $15k → 26%PREVENT BLINDNESS NORTH CAROLINA: $25k → 8%YWCA LOWER CAPE FEAR: $40k → 12%KOINONIA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $50k → 20%WACCAMAW SIOUAN TRIBE INC: $40k → 21%SUDS OF LOVE INC: $8k → 26%Place of Possibilities: $23k → 24%KRAMDEN INSTITUTE: $46k → 11%KOINONIA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $25k → 20%DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC: $25k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$40M · 42 repeat orgs$27M to everyone else

42 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
34

Total granted

$40M
$25M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+5%

Still filing today

90%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther

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

  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $35M · revenue +165% · 100% of their budget
  • RF
    RIPE FOR REVIVAL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +56%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE ALBEMARLE INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $90k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • G
    GIENC
    one grant, 2018 · $23M
  • BA
    Boys and Girls Club
    one grant, 2019 · $325k
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Club Durham Orange
    one grant, 2018 · $179k

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.

1
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
2
North Carolina Empowerment Organization
Civil Rights
3
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

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

4
Womens Resource Center of Greensboro Inc

To promote the self-reliance of women by assessing needs, providing services, and acting as a gateway to community resources; to seek solutions for unmet needs by providing strategic leadership through collaboration and partnerships within…

Human Services
5
The Center for Rural Health Innovation

Improve healthcare in rural communities

Health
6
North Carolina Business Group On Health Inc

To educate, advocate, and innovate for a better healthcare delivery system in nc.

Health
7
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
8
North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law
Crime & Legal
9
East Carolina Health

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
10
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
11
Tri-County Community Health Council Inc

Provider of comprehensive, compassionate, high quality primary medical, dental, pharmacy and behavioral health services in southeastern north carolina.

12
Pitt County Memorial Hospital Inc

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Education Foundation of Eastern N and the most unlike its peers is Simply Girls Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%7%<5yr17%15%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr14%24%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr10%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%1%<5yr17%2%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr14%3%20–35yr11%3%35–55yr10%89%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/108
the rest of the field
17%
3,883/23,355

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

98 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 98 of the 120 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/98
Grantees still filing
51/98
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $34,749,626 · EmploymentGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC+2 more — $65,000 · EmploymentGIENC — $23,000,000 · OtherGIENCGCF GLOBAL LEARNING LLC — $2,135,088 · OtherGCF GLOBAL LEARNING LLC+43 more — $3,041,791 · Other+43 moreNorth Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc — $200,000 · HealthWakeMed — $125,000 · HealthNORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC — $125,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF DARE — $75,000 · HealthHOPE CLINIC — $75,000 · HealthMARIUS MAXIMUS FOUNDATION — $53,000 · HealthCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY EASTERN NC INC — $52,500 · HealthCOLUMBUS COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC — $52,500 · HealthCUMBERLAND HEALTHNET INC — $52,500 · HealthKINSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $50,000 · HealthOCRACOKE HEALTH CENTER INC — $50,000 · HealthROANOKE CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $48,000 · HealthCoastal Horizons Center Inc — $45,000 · HealthBEAUFORT COUNTY ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND — $42,500 · Health+10 more — $223,500 · HealthMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $98,268 · Human ServicesCasa Azul De Wilson — $82,500 · Human ServicesKOINONIA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $75,000 · Human ServicesNC Field Inc — $75,000 · Human ServicesMEN & WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesPLACE OF POSSIBILITIES INC — $73,311 · Human ServicesPROSPERA NORTH CAROLINA LLC — $50,000 · Human ServicesROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $50,000 · Human ServicesKRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC — $46,000 · Human ServicesBertie County Hive House — $45,000 · Human ServicesCAPE FEAR VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $45,000 · Human ServicesYWCA of the Lower Cape Fear Inc — $40,000 · Human ServicesWACCAMAW SIOUAN INDIAN TRIBE INC — $40,000 · Human Services+7 more — $125,232 · Human ServicesHEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N — $175,000 · EducationMYFUTURENCINC — $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · EducationSTRATEGIC TWIN-COUNTIES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $75,000 · EducationTHE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF WAYNE COUNTY INC — $51,000 · EducationMETHODIST UNIVERSITY INC — $50,000 · EducationTHE ALICE AYCOCK POE CENTER FOR HEALTH EDUCATION — $45,000 · EducationCAPE FEAR LITERACY COUNCIL — $45,000 · EducationWILSON EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $31,000 · Education+1 more — $15,000 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE ALBEMARLE INC — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentKinston Teens Inc — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentDIVERSITY NURTURES ACHIEVEMENT — $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentSIMPLY GIRLS INCORPORATED — $52,500 · Youth DevelopmentWilson Youth United Inc — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentMY KIDS CLUB — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S CANCER PARTNERS OF THE CAROLINAS INC — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentBlue Ribbon Commission on the Prevention of Youth Violence — $31,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE ALBEMARLE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS - NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PINES INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentRIPPLE EFFECTS GROUP — $82,500 · Community ImprovementTar River Community Development — $50,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementRURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementARRAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $45,000 · Community ImprovementPARTNERS IN MINISTRY — $45,000 · Community ImprovementCarolina Common Enterprise — $25,000 · Community Improvement
Employment$34,814,626Other$28,176,879Health$1,269,500Human Services$920,311Education$662,000Youth Development$446,000Community Improvement$397,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $34,749,626 over 2y, 100% of budgetGCF GLOBAL LEARNING LLC — $2,135,088 over 3y, 100% of budgetNorth Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc — $200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N — $175,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC — $133,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetWakeMed — $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC — $125,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTEEN DRIVING SOLUTIONS SCHOOL INC — $100,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetRIPE FOR REVIVAL — $100,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetMYFUTURENCINC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC — $98,268 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE ALBEMARLE INC — $90,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetNEW LIFE INTERNATIONAL MISSION INC — $89,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetRIPPLE EFFECTS GROUP — $82,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetCasa Azul De Wilson — $82,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKOINONIA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $75,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF DARE — $75,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetNC Field Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetSTRATEGIC TWIN-COUNTIES EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP — $75,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetHOPE CLINIC — $75,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetMEN & WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC — $75,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFEAST DOWN EAST INC — $75,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetTHE SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPLACE OF POSSIBILITIES INC — $73,311 over 2y, 50% of budgetTHE HILL FAMILY FARM EDUCATION CENTER — $60,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetKinston Teens Inc — $60,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetMARIUS MAXIMUS FOUNDATION — $53,000 over 1y, 55% of budgetSAFE HAVEN OF PENDER INC — $52,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetKIDS FIRST INC — $52,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY EASTERN NC INC — $52,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetCOLUMBUS COUNTY DREAM CENTER INC — $52,500 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetALBEMARLE HOPELINE INC — $52,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEALTHNET INC — $52,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetDIVERSITY NURTURES ACHIEVEMENT — $52,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WAYNE CO INC — $52,500 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetSIMPLY GIRLS INCORPORATED — $52,500 over 2y, 18% of budgetTHE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF WAYNE COUNTY INC — $51,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPROSPERA NORTH CAROLINA LLC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetONSLOW COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetKINSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMETHODIST UNIVERSITY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetOCRACOKE HEALTH CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMILLERS CREW INC — $50,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budget
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.

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.

North Carolina Community FoundationNC102.6× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008 · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Golden Leaf Inc · The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Duke Endowment · Corning Incorporated Foundation

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 Camber Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    45report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 120 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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