North Carolina · 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(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,290,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $823k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Make North Carolina First funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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 | 18 | $12M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $2.6M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $2.4M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $1.7M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $5.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina Families First | $8,542,769 | 5 | n/a |
| A Better NC | $2,200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Progress North Carolina Action | $1,904,850 | 5 | 26% |
| Rally NC | $1,728,000 | 1 | 28% |
| A Philip Randolph Educational Fund | $1,446,000 | 4 | 53% |
| Lead NC | $1,371,000 | 5 | 84% |
| Justice for Nc | $1,227,000 | 5 | 64% |
| Fair Future NC | $1,000,000 | 1 | 33% |
| Majority Rising NC | $970,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Ncaat in Action | $601,000 | 3 | 14% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina Families First | $8,542,769 | 5 | n/a |
| A Better NC | $2,200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Progress North Carolina Action | $1,904,850 | 5 | 26% |
| Rally NC | $1,728,000 | 1 | 28% |
| A Philip Randolph Educational Fund | $1,446,000 | 4 | 53% |
| Lead NC | $1,371,000 | 5 | 84% |
| Justice for Nc | $1,227,000 | 5 | 64% |
| Fair Future NC | $1,000,000 | 1 | 33% |
| Majority Rising NC | $970,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Ncaat in Action | $601,000 | 3 | 14% |
| People's Action | $574,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Poder Nc Action | $534,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Advance North Carolina Inc | $400,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Siembra Nc | $375,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Real Facts NC | $293,000 | 3 | 100% |
| Carolina Federation | $255,000 | 2 | 12% |
| New Rural Project | $159,000 | 2 | 9% |
| North Carolina Latino Power | $150,000 | 1 | 79% |
| Forward Justice | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| America Votes | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Durham For All | $80,000 | 1 | 8% |
| El Pueblo Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Put North Carolina First LLC | $40,000 | 1 | n/a |
| People's Action Institute | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New North Carolina Project Action First Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Mijente | $24,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Defenders of Civil Justice | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Action Nc | $15,000 | 1 | 5% |
Where it is load-bearing
Make North Carolina First supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 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: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Imagine North Carolina First · Tides Foundation · Open Society Action Fund Inc · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Pro-Democracy Campaign · Tides Advocacy · The Heising-Simons Action Fund · Women Donors Network Action
How this is measured
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About Make North Carolina First
- How much does Make North Carolina First give?
- Make North Carolina First reported 18 grants totaling $11,782,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Make North Carolina First fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (48%), Public Benefit (45%), Education (5%).
- Who are Make North Carolina First's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: North Carolina Families First ($8.5M), A Better NC ($2.2M), Progress North Carolina Action ($1.9M).
- Does Make North Carolina First fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Make North Carolina First?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sixteen Thirty Fund, America Votes, Imagine North Carolina First.
- Where is Make North Carolina First based?
- Make North Carolina First is based in NC.
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