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Nc State Investment Fund Inc

The organization supports north carolina state university by operating an investment fund.

$74M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$24M
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 FY20172024.

Education$383MHealth$32MFood & Nutrition$7.7MScience & Tech$6.2MEnvironment$2.7MPhilanthropy$1.4M
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,275,966
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENDOWMENT FUND OF NC STATE UNIVERSITY$23,526,490
NC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$22,824,070
THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC$6,625,200
NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC$5,871,871
NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC$3,275,966
NC STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC$2,868,200
NC STATE TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC$2,700,551
NC STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT AID ASSOCIATION INC$2,284,748
NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC$2,081,805
NC STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC$1,541,435
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ENDOWMENT FUND OF NC STATE UNIVERSITY: $23.5M → 8%NC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $22.8M → 8%ENDOWMENT FUND OF NC STATE UNIVERSITY: $22.3M → 8%NC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $21.3M → 8%ENDOWMENT FUND OF NC STATE UNIVERSITY: $19.7M → 8%NC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $19.5M → 8%ENDOWMENT FUND OF NC STATE UNIVERSITY: $17.2M → 8%ENDOWMENT FUND OF NC STATE UNIVERSITY: $16.5M → 8%NC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $15.6M → 8%ENDOWMENT FUND OF NC STATE UNIVERSITY: $15.3M → 8%NC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $15.0M → 8%NC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $13.9M → 8%ENDOWMENT FUND OF NC STATE UNIVERSITY: $13.7M → 8%ENDOWMENT FUND OF NC STATE UNIVERSITY: $8.6M → 8%NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC: $6.8M → 8%THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $6.6M → 8%THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $6.1M → 8%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $5.9M → 8%NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC: $5.9M → 8%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $5.8M → 8%THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $5.7M → 8%NC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5.6M → 8%NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC: $5.0M → 8%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $4.7M → 8%THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $4.6M → 8%THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $4.6M → 8%NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION: $4.6M → 8%NC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $4.5M → 8%THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC: $4.3M → 8%NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC: $4.3M → 8%NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC: $4.1M → 8%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $4.1M → 8%NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC: $4.0M → 8%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3.9M → 8%NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC: $3.8M → 8%NC STATE TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC: $3.7M → 8%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3.5M → 8%NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION: $3.4M → 8%NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC: $3.3M → 8%NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION: $3.1M → 8%NC STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $2.9M → 8%NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC: $2.8M → 8%NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION: $2.8M → 8%NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC: $2.7M → 8%NC STATE TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC: $2.7M → 8%NC STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $2.7M → 8%NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC: $2.6M → 8%NC STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $2.5M → 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$433M · 11 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
0

Total granted

$433M
$0

Still filing today

82%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $118M · revenue +232% · 46% of their budget
  • TN
    THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40M · revenue +55% · 29% of their budget
  • NS
    NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $36M · revenue +172% · 46% of their budget

Funded once

    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
    Northern State University Foundation

    The Northern State University Foundation is dedicated to securing the future of Northern State University. Its purpose is to solicit and administer funds and to pursue other activities to advance this goal.

    2
    Nc State University Partnership Corporation

    To support and benefit north carolina state university with the aim of creating new knowledge and improving the lives of the people of north carolina.

    3
    National Council of Farmer Cooperatives

    To advance the business and policy interests of america's cooperatives and other farmer-owned enterprises.

    4
    Transportation Energy Institute

    The fuels institute/transportation energy institute will deliver comprehensive and balanced research and analysis concerning fuels, vehicles, and related policy issues in order to create a market in which consumers can safely,…

    Unclassified
    5
    National University Foundation

    To cultivate partnerships, secure resources, and productively engage donors, alumni, and other supporters to advance nu and affiliates in the achievement of their vital work.

    Education
    6
    California State University Alumni Association

    Connect, engage and celebrate alumni, students and friends of sacramento state while building lifelong relationships that support the future of our university.

    Education
    7
    North Dakota State University Foundation

    Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

    Education
    8
    Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

    Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.

    Education
    9
    University of North Carolina At Charlotte Investment Fund

    The university of north carolina at charlotte investment fund, inc. (unccif) is a north carolina not-for-profit organization established to support the university of north carolina at charlotte (unc charlotte) by providing investment…

    Education
    10
    National Association of College and University Attorneys

    To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

    11
    University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

    See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

    Science & Tech
    12
    Northeast College of Health Sciences

    Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

    Education

    For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina State University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nc State Student Aid Association 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

    10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

    8
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    3
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    9/10
    Grantees still filing
    10/10
    Grew since you first funded

    Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

    NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $118,166,108 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCNC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC — $36,017,794 · EducationNC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INCNORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC — $21,592,451 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INCNC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC — $13,226,322 · EducationNC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC+2 more — $12,711,938 · Education+2 moreNC STATE UNIVERSITY — $164,745,105 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITYNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $17,425,291 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATI…+1 more — $1,529,631 · OtherTHE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC — $39,578,171 · HealthTHE NORTH …NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC — $8,312,084 · Philanthropy
    Education$201,714,613Other$183,700,027Health$39,578,171Philanthropy$8,312,084

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

    25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $118,166,108 over 8y, 46% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC — $39,578,171 over 8y, 29% of budgetNC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC — $36,017,794 over 8y, 46% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC — $21,592,451 over 8y, 42% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $17,425,291 over 8y, 67% of budgetNC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC — $13,226,322 over 8y, 58% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC — $8,312,084 over 8y, 52% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC — $6,425,731 over 2y, 57% of budgetNC STATE STUDENT AID ASSOCIATION INC — $6,286,207 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA TOBACCO FOUNDATION INC — $1,529,631 over 5y, 23% 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.

    • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    • Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC
    • Who funds NC STATE ENGINEERING FOUNDATION INC
    • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC
    • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC
    • Who funds NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC
    • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC
    • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA TEXTILE FOUNDATION INC
    • Who funds NC STATE STUDENT AID ASSOCIATION INC
    • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA TOBACCO FOUNDATION 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.

    Duke Energy FoundationNC15.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 State Investment Fund 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.

    2025
    202122232425
    no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
      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 11 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.

      Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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