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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
MIDLANDS FATHERHOOD COALITION$100,000
NC BUDGET & TAX CENTER$100,000
BERTIE COUNTY YMCA$100,000
COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC$100,000
CAROLINA HUMAN REINVESTMENT$100,000
ROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER INC$100,000
UNITY HEALTH ON MAIN$100,000
FINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF PIEDMONT INC$100,000
LOWCOUNTRY YOUTH SERVICE$100,000
CARE SHARE HEALTH ALLIANCE INC$100,000
SOTERIA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$75,000
NC BUDGET & TAX CENTER$65,000
IMMERSION FOR SPANISH LANQUAGE ACQUISITION$34,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

+43%
+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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +84%
  • 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%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Centro Hispano Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Exceptional Childrens Assistance Center Inc: $249,133 · Human ServicesExceptional Childrens Assista…BERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $225,000 · Human ServicesBERTIE COUNTY YMCACOMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES INCROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $225,000 · Human ServicesROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COM…FINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONT: $225,000 · Human ServicesFINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIE…HISPANIC 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 …UNITY HEALTH ON MAIN: $225,000 · HealthUNITY HEAL…CARE SHARE HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $225,000 · HealthCARE SHARE…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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetBERTIE COUNTY YMCA: $225,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $225,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetROBESON COUNTY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $225,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetUNITY HEALTH ON MAIN: $225,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetMidlands Fatherhood Coalition: $225,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetFINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONT: $225,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetCARE SHARE HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $225,000 over 4y, 12% 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 budgetMONROE-UNION COUNTY COMMUNITY: $47,500 over 2y, 23% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY COALITION: $47,500 over 2y, 51% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $47,500 over 2y, 0.1% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mdc Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mdc Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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