North Carolina · Private foundation
Nc Idea
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 190
- Grants FY2025
- 161
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 69%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 71 to 188
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $52M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 69% of the organizations Nc Idea funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $947k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 177 | $2.6M | 58% |
| FY2024 | 161 | $1.6M | 69% |
| FY2023 | 159 | $3.5M | 60% |
| FY2022 | 188 | $3.6M | 63% |
| FY2021 | 155 | $3.0M | 76% |
| FY2020 | 136 | $2.0M | 75% |
| FY2019 | 105 | $2.1M | 76% |
| FY2018 | 71 | $1.5M | 72% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Flight Venture Center Inc | $421,360 | 9 | 5% |
| Code the Dream Inc | $190,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Ventureprise Inc | $185,000 | 6 | 10% |
| WE Power Food Inc | $177,145 | 3 | 49% |
| Duke University | $155,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Provident1898 | $150,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Shaw University | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Partner Community Capital Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Innovate Charlotte Inc | $135,500 | 7 | 77% |
| Center for Creative Economy | $134,000 | 6 | 20% |
Show all 145 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 670 recipients with no EIN on record ($16M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Nc Idea supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 100 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
About Nc Idea
- How much does Nc Idea give?
- Nc Idea reported 190 grants totaling $2,569,331 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 71 and 188 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Nc Idea fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (24%), Environment (23%), Science & Tech (14%).
- Who are Nc Idea's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: First Flight Venture Center Inc ($421k), Code the Dream Inc ($190k), Ventureprise Inc ($185k).
- Does Nc Idea fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nc Idea accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nc Idea?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dogwood Health Trust, Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc, Truist Foundation Inc.
- Where is Nc Idea based?
- Nc Idea is based in NC.
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