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Mdc Inc

Mdc is a catalyst for equitable change in the south.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$321k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$2.0MHuman Services$1.1MCivil Rights$1.1MCommunity Improvement$978kHealth$858kCrime & Legal$464kYouth Development$409kHousing & Shelter$112kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k26 grants · $621k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+1 grant · $321k
$34,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HISPANIC FEDERATION INC$320,999
EMPOWERED PARENTS IN COMMUNITY$134,000
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC$100,000
CAROLINA HUMAN REINVESTMENT$100,000
UNITY HEALTH ON MAIN$100,000
BERTIE COUNTY YMCA$100,000
FINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF PIEDMONT INC$100,000
ROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC$100,000
MIDLANDS FATHERHOOD COALITION$100,000
CARE SHARE HEALTH ALLIANCE INC$100,000
NC BUDGET & TAX CENTER$100,000
LOWCOUNTRY YOUTH SERVICE$100,000
SOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$75,000
NC BUDGET & TAX CENTER$65,000
DISABILITY RIGHTS OF NORTH CAROLINA$34,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $100k → 18%HISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $70k → 9%TRUE RIDGE: $17k → 12%COLABORATIVE A LA MILPA: $53k → 12%NEIGHBORS IN MINISTRY INC: $57k → 13%FINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF PIEDMONT INC: $100k → 15%CORE COMMUNITY COALITION: $38k → 17%MENS AND WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES CDC: $50k → 21%BERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $100k → 24%ROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100k → 26%COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $100k → 18%HISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $39k → 9%NEIGHBORS IN MINISTRY INC: $32k → 13%FINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF PIEDMONT INC: $100k → 15%MENS AND WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES CDC: $28k → 21%BERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $100k → 24%ROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100k → 26%COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $25k → 18%HISPANIC LIASON OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $34k → 9%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S ASSISTANCE CENTER: $79k → 10%NEIGHBORS IN MINISTRY INC: $26k → 13%FINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF PIEDMONT INC: $13k → 15%CORE COMMUNITY COALITION: $10k → 17%MENS AND WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES CDC: $25k → 21%BERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $13k → 24%ROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $13k → 26%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S ASSISTANCE CENTER: $50k → 10%FINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF PIEDMONT INC: $13k → 15%BERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $13k → 24%ROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $13k → 26%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S ASSISTANCE CENTER: $43k → 10%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S ASSISTANCE CENTER: $43k → 10%EXCEPIONAL CHILDRENS'S ASSISTANCE CENTER: $34k → 10%HAYTI REBORN JUSTICE MOVEMENT: $102k → 11%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $75k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $38k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.1M · 42 repeat orgs$334k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
11

Total granted

$7.1M
$290k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+23%

Still filing today

88%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • EMPOWERED PARENTS IN COMMUNITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $389k · revenue +119%
  • HISPANIC FEDERATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $336k · revenue +88%
  • EL FUTURO INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $257k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • HR
    Hayti Reborn-Justice Movementgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $102k · revenue +78%
  • CL
    Colaborativa La Milpa
    one grant, 2024 · $53k · revenue 0%
  • TR
    True Ridgegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue +89%

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
North Carolina Empowerment Organization
Civil Rights
2
North Carolina Community Action Association

To encourage, promote, and stimulate the community development of human resources, principally to eliminate poverty through the operation of community action programs.

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3
Carolina Common Enterprise

The specific objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be to assist individuals and communities, particularly those in low-income and socially disadvantaged areas, in the creation, expansion, and improvement of rural and…

Community Improvement
4
Forward Justice Action Network

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

Human Services
5
North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc

To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.

Health
6
North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ

The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…

Education
7
North Carolina Early Education Coalition

Act as an organization to provide education, information distribution, training, newsletters, fact sheets, and other materials to educate communities about the importance of high quality childhood education, especially for infants and…

Education
8
Community Industry Value Interactionist League

NC CIVIL is a nonprofit community impact organization that develops grassroots approaches to structural disparities. Our mission is to increase resident involvement, improve organization of resources, and help institutions partner…

Youth Development
9
Action Institute Nc

Action institute nc is a community organization and citizens action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and…

—
10
North Carolina Association of County Directors of Social Services

The north carolina association of county directors of social services is a future-oriented source of leadership for its members, policy makers, partners, and the general public, that improves public policy and strenghtens the capacity of…

Human Services
11
Carolina Family Connections

Recruit and train and license foster parents to receive foster children from county government agencies.

Human Services
12
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Centro Hispano Inc and the most unlike its peers is Associacion De Mexicanos En Carolina Del Nort. 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 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%14%<5yr17%16%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr14%22%20–35yr11%27%35–55yr12%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%11%<5yr17%14%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr14%20%20–35yr11%35%35–55yr12%4%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/51
the rest of the field
16%
4,121/26,336

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

43 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 55 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
31/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Exceptional Childrens Assistance Center Inc — $249,133 · Human ServicesExceptional Childrens Assista…ROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $225,000 · Human ServicesROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COM…COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC — $225,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES INCFINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONT — $225,000 · Human ServicesFINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIE…BERTIE COUNTY YMCA — $225,000 · Human ServicesBERTIE COUNTY YMCAHISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY — $142,750 · Human ServicesHISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM C…Neighbors in Ministry Inc — $115,820 · Human ServicesNeighbors in Ministry IncNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER — $112,500 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTERMEN & WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC — $103,000 · Human ServicesHayti Reborn-Justice Movement — $101,975 · Human ServicesFAMILY SUPPORT NETWORKHOPE — $97,000 · Human Services+3 more — $116,667 · Human Services+3 moreEMPOWERED PARENTS IN COMMUNITY — $389,350 · OtherEMPOWERED PARENTS IN COMMUNITYDISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA — $245,250 · OtherDISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINANORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION — $162,500 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA STATE BOARD OF EDUCA…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN — $146,250 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL…North Carolina Department of Public Instruction — $116,250 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY YOUTH SERVICES — $212,500 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY YOUTH SERVICESImmersion for Spanish Language Acq — $245,793 · OtherImmersion for Spanish Language AcqMidlands Fatherhood Coalition — $225,000 · OtherMidlands Fatherhood CoalitionASSOCIACION DE MEXICANOS EN CAROLINA DEL NORT — $114,830 · Other+14 more — $473,168 · Other+14 moreHEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N — $254,750 · EducationHEALTH EDUCATION FOU…STUDENT U — $236,250 · EducationSTUDENT UCENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION — $219,500 · EducationCENTER FOR RACIAL EQ…PUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC — $165,250 · EducationPUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM …PROFOUND LADIES INC — $148,250 · EducationPROFOUND LADIES INCEducation Justice Alliance — $139,000 · EducationEducation Justice Al…OPERATION XCEL PROMOTING EXCELLENT COMMUNITIES EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP — $110,750 · EducationOPERATION XCEL PROMO…NORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC — $60,000 · EducationEL FUTURO INC — $257,250 · HealthEL FUTURO …CARE SHARE HEALTH ALLIANCE INC — $225,000 · HealthCARE SHARE…UNITY HEALTH ON MAIN — $225,000 · HealthUNITY HEAL…CAROLINA HUMAN REINVESTMENT — $212,500 · Crime & LegalSOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $187,500 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE — $76,125 · Crime & LegalHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $335,999 · Community ImprovementCLEVELAND COUNTY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $16,667 · Community ImprovementEL CENTRO HISPANO INC — $15,000 · Community ImprovementNC BUDGET & TAX CENTER — $280,000 · Civil Rights
Human Services$1,938,845Other$2,330,891Education$1,333,750Health$707,250Crime & Legal$476,125Community Improvement$367,666Civil Rights$280,000

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 budgetEMPOWERED PARENTS IN COMMUNITY — $389,350 over 4y, 22% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $335,999 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNC BUDGET & TAX CENTER — $280,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetEL FUTURO INC — $257,250 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetHEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N — $254,750 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetExceptional Childrens Assistance Center Inc — $249,133 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetImmersion for Spanish Language Acq — $245,793 over 6y, 12% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA — $245,250 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSTUDENT U — $236,250 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetMidlands Fatherhood Coalition — $225,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $225,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetCARE SHARE HEALTH ALLIANCE INC — $225,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC — $225,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetFINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONT — $225,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetUNITY HEALTH ON MAIN — $225,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetBERTIE COUNTY YMCA — $225,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetCENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION — $219,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY YOUTH SERVICES — $212,500 over 3y, 31% of budgetCAROLINA HUMAN REINVESTMENT — $212,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetSOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $187,500 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetPUBLIC SCHOOL FORUM OF NC INC — $165,250 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetPROFOUND LADIES INC — $148,250 over 3y, 40% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN — $146,250 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHISPANIC LIAISON OF CHATHAM COUNTY — $142,750 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetEducation Justice Alliance — $139,000 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetNeighbors in Ministry Inc — $115,820 over 3y, 14% of budgetASSOCIACION DE MEXICANOS EN CAROLINA DEL NORT — $114,830 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER — $112,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetOPERATION XCEL PROMOTING EXCELLENT COMMUNITIES EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP — $110,750 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetMEN & WOMEN UNITED FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC — $103,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetHayti Reborn-Justice Movement — $101,975 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT NETWORKHOPE — $97,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetSOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE — $76,125 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBeaufort County United Way Inc — $64,167 over 3y, 14% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC — $60,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetColaborativa La Milpa — $52,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE — $47,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY COALITION — $47,500 over 2y, 51% of budgetMONROE-UNION COUNTY COMMUNITY — $47,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetTrue Ridge — $16,667 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetEL CENTRO HISPANO INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLACK RIVER HEALTH SERVICES INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Z Smith Reynolds Foun…North Carolina Commun…Blueprint North Carol…Triangle Community Fo…Community Foundation …Blue Cross and Blue S…Duke Energy FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncHispanic Federation I…Nc Counts CoalitionAj Fletcher FoundationDogwood Health Trust
Z Smith Reynolds Foundation IncNC43.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Blueprint North Carolina · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Hispanic Federation Inc · Nc Counts Coalition · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust

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 Mdc Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report 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, FY20–25

    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 55 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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