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NC CHILD builds a stronger north carolina by advancing public policies that ensure all children - regardless of race, ethnicity, or birthplace - have the opportunity to reach their full potential.

$239k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$52k
Largest
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 FY20212024.

Human Services$162kEducation$146kHealth$52kHousing & Shelter$50kEmployment$40kPhilanthropy$36kCrime & Legal$20kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $184,330 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $239,330 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $55,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $132k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NC EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION$52,330
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF ROBESON COUNTY$20,000
WAGES$20,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CAPE FEAR$20,000
ASCEND NONPROFITS SOLUTIONS INC$20,000
YMCA OF GREENSBORO$20,000
CHILDREN FIRSTCIS OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY$20,000
BYE ENTERPRISE LLC$12,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BCDI-CHARLOTTE: $10k → 10%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CAPE FEAR: $22k → 12%WAGES: $20k → 18%ASCEND NONPROFITS SOLUTIONS INC: $20k → 10%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CAPE FEAR: $20k → 12%WAGES: $20k → 18%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CAPE FEAR: $20k → 12%WAGES: $20k → 18%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S ASSISTANCE: $10k → 10%COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CAPE FEAR: $20k → 12%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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$342k · 6 repeat orgs$182k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$342k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+33%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • CI
    Communities in Schools of Cape Fear Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $82k · revenue +156%
  • CF
    Children FirstCommunities In Schools of Buncombe County Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $68k · revenue +11%
  • WA
    WAYNE ACTION GROUP FOR ECONOMIC SOLVENCY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • ME
    MOMSRISING EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $36k · revenue +59%
  • EC
    Exceptional Childrens Assistance Center Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +14%
  • NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +36%

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 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
2
Guilford County Partnership for Children Inc

The Guilford County Partnership for Children is a local non-profit strategically directing Smart Start and NC Pre-K funding to ensure equitable access to high quality childcare, professional development for early childhood educators and…

Education
3
North Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children

Ncaeyc promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. we advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on…

4
Communities in Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc

The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
5
Carolina Family Connections

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

Human Services
6
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
7
Wilson County Partnership for Children Inc

To support the development of young children and families in Wilson County through collaborative, community-based programs focusing on health, family support services and quality education.

Human Services
8
Communities in Schools of North Carolina Inc

Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…

Human Services
9
Early Years Inc

Early years leads efforts to strengthen accessible and affordable quality early care and education by providing support for families, communities and the workforce. early years 's primary purpose is to provide services, research and…

10
Community Coordinated Child Care Inc

To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care and education through integrated support and equitable practices.

Human Services
11
Robeson County Partnership for Children

To make a compelling impact on Robeson County families by collaborating with early childhood agencies to support programs that measurably develop young children and their caregivers for success.

Education
12
North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc

The north carolina partnership for children (ncpc) is the lead organization and backbone of the smart start network, setting statewide vision, policy, and funding priorities. while local partnerships translate the statewide vision into…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empowered Parents in Community and the most unlike its peers is United Way of Greater Greensboro Inc. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Communities in Schools of Cape Fear Inc — $82,000 · Human ServicesCommunities in Schools of Cape Fear IncWAYNE ACTION GROUP FOR ECONOMIC SOLVENCY INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesWAYNE ACTION GROUP FOR ECONOMIC SOLVENCY …Ascend Nonprofit Solutions — $20,000 · Human ServicesAscend Nonprofit SolutionsExceptional Childrens Assistance Center Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $10,000 · Human ServicesWESTERN CAROLINA COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesChildren FirstCommunities In Schools of Buncombe County Inc — $68,000 · OtherChildren FirstCommunities In Sc…NORTH CAROLINA HOUSING COALITION INC — $50,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA HOUSING COALITIO…BYE ENTERPRISE LLC — $22,000 · OtherBYE ENTERPRISE LLCEMPOWERED PARENTS IN COMMUNITY — $8,000 · OtherEMPOWERED PARENTS IN COMMUNITYUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC — $60,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATE…MOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND — $36,000 · PhilanthropyMOMSRISING EDUCATION…NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC — $52,330 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA EARL…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC — $20,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHO…RICHMOND COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC — $10,000 · EducationRICHMOND COUNTY PAR…Charlotte Bilingual Learning Center — $6,000 · EducationCharlotte Bilingual…
Human Services$192,000Other$148,000Philanthropy$96,000Education$88,330

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCommunities in Schools of Cape Fear Inc — $82,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetChildren FirstCommunities In Schools of Buncombe County Inc — $68,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetWAYNE ACTION GROUP FOR ECONOMIC SOLVENCY INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC — $52,330 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA HOUSING COALITION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND — $36,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAscend Nonprofit Solutions — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetExceptional Childrens Assistance Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRICHMOND COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWESTERN CAROLINA COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWERED PARENTS IN COMMUNITY — $8,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCharlotte Bilingual Learning Center — $6,000 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 Foundation IncNC19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Leon Levine Foundation · North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation Inc · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Nc Child 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report 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, FY2025

    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 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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