North Carolina · Community foundation
Great Rivers Community Trust
To support community development financial institutions (cdfis) through the creation and ongoing development of a secondary market for cdfi small business loans. To exercise any, all and every lawful power of a nonprofit corporation organized under missouri law; provided, however, that nothing herein shall be construed to give the…
- $684k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $48,062
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $195,701
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 13
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $39M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Great Rivers Community Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $677k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $2.2M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $2.8M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $599k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $63k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accion Opportunity Fund Community Development | $2,170,700 | 4 | 2% |
| Dreamspring | $1,360,265 | 4 | 5% |
| Liftfund Inc | $568,843 | 4 | 1% |
| Working Solutions Cdfi | $555,323 | 3 | 5% |
| Accessity | $480,309 | 2 | 4% |
| Ascendus Inc | $260,601 | 4 | 1% |
| Main Street Launch | $251,219 | 3 | 3% |
| Allies for Community Business Inc | $228,761 | 5 | 1% |
| Raza Development Fund Inc | $159,197 | 1 | 1% |
| Womenventure | $102,163 | 3 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accion Opportunity Fund Community Development | $2,170,700 | 4 | 2% |
| Dreamspring | $1,360,265 | 4 | 5% |
| Liftfund Inc | $568,843 | 4 | 1% |
| Working Solutions Cdfi | $555,323 | 3 | 5% |
| Accessity | $480,309 | 2 | 4% |
| Ascendus Inc | $260,601 | 4 | 1% |
| Main Street Launch | $251,219 | 3 | 3% |
| Allies for Community Business Inc | $228,761 | 5 | 1% |
| Raza Development Fund Inc | $159,197 | 1 | 1% |
| Womenventure | $102,163 | 3 | 1% |
| The Center for Strategic Economic Studies and Institutional Development | $58,633 | 2 | 0% |
| Pacific Community Ventures Inc | $58,192 | 1 | 0% |
| Justine Petersen Housing And Reinvestment Corporation | $49,988 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Enterprises Inc | $49,698 | 2 | 9% |
| Tmc Community Capital | $17,325 | 1 | 0% |
| Latino Economic Development Center | $15,668 | 1 | n/a |
| Utah Microenterprise Loan Fund | $9,866 | 1 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Great Rivers Community Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Opportunity Finance Network · Wells Fargo Foundation · Citi Foundation · Comerica Charitable Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Gina Harman Family Foundation Inc · Western Alliance Community Foundation · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Capital One Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Great Rivers Community Trust
- How much does Great Rivers Community Trust give?
- Great Rivers Community Trust reported 12 grants totaling $684,192 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 13 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Great Rivers Community Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (99%), Housing & Shelter (1%).
- Who are Great Rivers Community Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Accion Opportunity Fund Community Development ($2.2M), Dreamspring ($1.4M), Liftfund Inc ($569k).
- Does Great Rivers Community Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Great Rivers Community Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Opportunity Finance Network, Wells Fargo Foundation, Citi Foundation.
- Where is Great Rivers Community Trust based?
- Great Rivers Community Trust is based in NC.
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