· Private foundation
Nc Idea
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k105 grants · $469k
- $10k–50k79 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k6 grants · $340k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLACK GIRL MAGIC MARKET | $65,000 |
| FIRST FLIGHT VENTURE CENTER | $63,360 |
| FORWARD CITIES | $60,000 |
| AB COMMUNITY | $51,667 |
| MATCHA NUDE | $50,000 |
| WHEELPRICE | $50,000 |
| HOPPY PLANET FOODS | $45,000 |
| SUNLIGHT | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,000 |
| PROSPERA | $45,000 |
| VIRNIKA | $42,502 |
| HATCH AVL FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| RIOT | $40,000 |
| GWEN | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $221k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
264 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2025, 190 since wound down; 103 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
FIRST FLIGHT VENTURE CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $421k · revenue +731%
CODE THE DREAM INC4× · 2018–2022 · $190k · revenue ×29- WPWE Power Food Inc3× · 2022–2025 · $177k · revenue +21% · 49% of their budget
Funded once
- WSWINSTON-SALEM STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $150k
- ECELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $150k
THE SHAW UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Identify and develop talent to increase the number of sustainable Black-owned business in the Upstate
To provide educational programs to stimulate the creation and growth of high impact companies
The Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development
The organization supports the region by connecting, communicating, and collaborating with stakeholders to grow and strengthen our innovation economy.
None
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
To promote and advance commerce in burke county, nc
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…
Create a more inclusive entrepreneurial and business ecosystem in durham, with an emphasis on women and underrepresented minority communities to gain the skills and experience needed to fully participate in economic properity.
Greater winston-salem inc. is a leading business organization in winston- salem and forsyth county. the organization is focused on establishing winston-salem as a technology-driven economic center. greater winston-salem inc. offers…
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlotte Regional Business Alliance Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Moms on a Mission of Wilson Nc Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 11 years old; the field is 12. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
115 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. 115 of the 815 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds FIRST FLIGHT VENTURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CODE THE DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds VENTUREPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds WE Power Food Inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE SHAW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PARTNER COMMUNITY CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATE CHARLOTTE INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Creative Economy ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN BIZCAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WINSTON STARTS ↗
- Who funds Echo System ↗
- Who funds ARRAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds FORWARD CITIES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Dogwood Health Trust · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Duke University · The Golden Leaf Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Wells Fargo Foundation
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 Idea 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.
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.