How much did Make North Carolina First grant in FY2024?

Make North Carolina First reported 18 grants totaling $11,782,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Make North Carolina First based?

Make North Carolina First is based in NC.

Make North Carolina First

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

Make North Carolina First

Make North Carolina First conducts research, sponsors educational activities and events, and disseminates accurate and timely information to promote the general public's understanding of ways to maintain and improve North Carolina's common good, quality of life and social welfare.

$12M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$5.3M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of Make North Carolina First’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k3 grants · $75k
$50k–250k6 grants · $803k
$250k+9 grants · $11M

$250,000

Median grant

States reached

$823k

Total assets

Largest grants

North Carolina Families First$5,290,000
Rally NC$1,728,000
Fair Future NC$1,000,000
Progress North Carolina Action$781,500
NC A Philip Randolph Educational Fund Inc$730,000
Down Home NC$400,000
Siembra NC$375,000
NCAAT In Action$350,000
Majority Rising NC$250,000
Advance North Carolina$200,000
NC Citizens for Protecting our Schools$153,000
Carolina Federation$150,000
New Rural Project$100,000
America Votes$100,000
Lead NC$100,000

02The need

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 (FY20–24, $676k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$18M · 14 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$18M

$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%

+72%

Still filing today

93%

78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther

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

PN
Progress North Carolina Action
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +469%
LN
Lead NC
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +17% · 84% of their budget
MR
Majority Rising NC
3× · 2022–2024 · $970k · revenue +71%

Funded once

AB
A Better NC
one grant, 2020 · $2.2M
NC
North Carolina Latino Powergraduated
one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +17928% · 79% of their budget
FJ
Forward Justicegraduated
one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +197%

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.

Moving Nc Forward

To support and advocate for policies that advance economic growth, stronger schools, tolerance, and fair and legal electoral districts

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Progress North Carolina

Progress North Carolina conducts research, sponsors educational activities and events, and disseminates accurate and timely information to promote the general public's understanding of ways to maintain and improve North Carolina's common…

Community Improvement

Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educati onal and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for publi c policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services

North Carolina Black Alliance Inc

The North Carolina Black Alliance (NCBA) works toward state-level systemic change by strengthening the network of elected officials representing communities of color throughout the state and collaborating with progressive, grassroots…

Education

North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research Inc

An independent source of factual news and information for the people of North Carolina, established to inform and engage the people and support their effective citizenship.

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North Carolina Public Interest Research Group Citizen Lobby Inc

When consumers are cheated or the voices of ordinary citizens are drowned out by special interest lobbyists, NCPIRG speaks up and takes action. We uncover threats to public health and wellbeing and fight to end them, using the time-tested…

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North Carolina Voter Project

Amplify unrepresented voices in north carolina elections through voter education and registration.

Civil Rights

Nc Local Inc

Expands local news across North Carolina

Civil Rights

Nc for the People Action (formerly Nc Voters for Clean Elections)

To improve the election process by making the act of voting more accessible to citizens, to lessen the influence of money in politics and to generally make elected officials more responsive to the citizens of North Carolina.

Public Benefit

La Fuerza Nc

The mission of La Fuerza NC is to build collective power through leadership development and organizing.

Civil Rights

Democracy North Carolina

To strengthen democratic structures, build power among disenfranchised communities, and inspire confidence in a transformed political process that works for all.

Civil Rights

North Carolina Empowerment Organization

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New North Carolina Project Action First and the most unlike its peers is Real Facts Nc. 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

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

25/25

Grantees still filing

18/25

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$15,443,769Public Benefit$2,874,850Civil Rights$2,635,500Education$1,377,000Community Improvement$1,128,000Human Services$676,000Crime & Legal$100,000Health$50,000

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

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.

Sixteen Thirty FundDC36.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Open Society Action Fund Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Tides Foundation · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund · Imagine North Carolina First · Tides Advocacy · The Heising-Simons Action Fund · Women Donors Network Action · Strategic Victory Fund

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 organisation Make North Carolina First 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Real Facts NC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 273337837 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Real Facts NC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Make North Carolina First?

Find your warmest path to Make North Carolina First through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Make North Carolina First

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Make North Carolina First?

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Make North Carolina First

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Make North Carolina First?

More from the funding graph