North Carolina · Public charity
Imagine North Carolina First
Imagine North Carolina First initiates, cultivates, and funds strategic efforts to promote economic opportunity, quality of life, government accountability, and civic participation among under served communities in North Carolina. Its primary mission is to foster an economy and democracy that works for all North Carolina Citizens.
- $17M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 25
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $864k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Imagine North Carolina First funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $610k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 30 | $17M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $2.7M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $7.1M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $2.9M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $5.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Justice for Nc | $4,430,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Progress North Carolina | $4,413,650 | 5 | 91% |
| N C a Philip Randolph Institute Inc | $4,243,000 | 4 | 38% |
| State Engagement Fund | $3,000,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Blueprint North Carolina | $2,280,000 | 4 | 12% |
| Lead Nc Institute | $1,198,000 | 5 | 85% |
| Division of Principalsadministrators of Ncae Inc | $1,060,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Think North Carolina First | $1,005,000 | 2 | 32% |
| Democracy North Carolina | $970,000 | 3 | 13% |
| North Carolina Black Alliance Inc | $890,000 | 3 | 14% |
Show all 53 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Imagine North Carolina First supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Blueprint North Carolina · Tides Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Hopewell Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated · Make North Carolina First · Way to Rise · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc
How this is measured
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About Imagine North Carolina First
- How much does Imagine North Carolina First give?
- Imagine North Carolina First reported 31 grants totaling $17,127,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 25 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Imagine North Carolina First fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (69%), Education (11%), Human Services (7%).
- Who are Imagine North Carolina First's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Justice for Nc ($4.4M), Progress North Carolina ($4.4M), N C a Philip Randolph Institute Inc ($4.2M).
- Does Imagine North Carolina First fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Imagine North Carolina First?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blueprint North Carolina, Tides Foundation, Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc.
- Where is Imagine North Carolina First based?
- Imagine North Carolina First is based in NC.
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