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North Carolina Alliance for Health

To convene, mobilize, support, and empower partners to advance equitable policies that reduce health disparities, prevent chronic disease, and promote health.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$53k
Largest
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 2024.

Education$1.2MCivil Rights$480kHuman Services$200kHealth$106kCommunity Improvement$70kFood & Nutrition$45kArts & Culture$42kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 44 grants below total $1,169,009, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,220,658 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $51,649 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $786k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $356k
$23,177
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCKINGHAM COUNTYNC INNOVATIVE SCH$53,001
SURRY COUNTYNC INNOVATIVE SCHOOLS$52,390
IREDELL STATESVILLE BOARD OF EDUC$50,226
HENDERSON COUNTY NC INNOVATIVE SCH$50,000
GUILFORD COUNTYNC INNOVATIVE SCH$50,000
ROWAN SALISBURYNC INNOVATIVE SCH$50,000
HENDERSON COLLEGIATE INC$50,000
WILKES COUNTY INNOVATIVE SCHOOLS$48,416
Cherokee County NC INNOVATIVE SCH$48,257
JOHNSTON COUNTYNC INNOVATIVE SCH$47,794
TRANSYLVANIA CNTYNC INNOVATIVE SCH$41,636
CABARRUS COUNTYNC INNOVATIVE SCH$36,471
RUTHERFORD COUNTYNC INNOVATIVE SCH$35,945
ASHBORO CITYNC INNOVATIVE SCHOOL$31,747
DURHAM PUBLICNC INNOVATIVE SCHOOL$31,359
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNION COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 7%WAKE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM: $8k → 8%DARE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $10k → 8%CAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOC: $15k → 9%CHARLOTTE BOARD OF EDUCATION: $8k → 10%PENDER COUNTY NC INNOVATIVE SCHOOL: $10k → 11%THE CENTER FOR BLACK: $480k → 11%NEW HANOVER COUNTY INNOVATIVE SCH: $19k → 12%YADKIN COUNTY NC INNOVATIVE SCHOOL: $21k → 12%CARTERET COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $8k → 12%HENDERSON COUNTY NC INNOVATIVE SCH: $50k → 12%BUNCOMBE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCTAION: $20k → 12%CATAWBA COUNTY INNOVATIVE SCHOOLS: $8k → 12%STANLEY COUNTY SCHOOLS: $8k → 13%POLK COUNTY NC INNOVATIVE SCHOOL: $10k → 13%UPSTREAM WORKS COLLABORATIVE: $18k → 13%HARNETT COUNTY SCHOOLS: $8k → 13%ALEXANDER COUNTYNC INNOVATIVE SCH: $16k → 14%NASH COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $8k → 15%GRAHAM COUNTYNC INNOVATIVE SCH: $10k → 15%AVERY COUNTY SCHOOLS: $8k → 15%Cherokee County NC INNOVATIVE SCH: $48k → 15%LEE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: $10k → 16%CALDWELL COUNTY SCHOOLS: $8k → 16%GREATER HIGH POINT FOOD ALLIANCE: $15k → 16%CLEVELAND COUNTY INNOVATIVE SCHOOL: $14k → 17%WILKES COUNTY INNOVATIVE SCHOOLS: $48k → 19%A BETTER CHANCE A BETTER COMMUNITY: $200k → 20%NORTHAMPTON COUNTY SCHOOLS: $8k → 20%ST STEPHEN METROPOLITAN: $10k → 20%WASHINGTON COUNTY INNOVATIVE SCHOOL: $14k → 21%ANSON COUNTY SCHOOLS: $8k → 22%SCOTLAND COUNTY SCHOOLS: $10k → 24%PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF ROBESON COUNTY: $10k → 26%MOMS RISING EDUCATION FUND: $15k → 9%NEW HANOVER COUNTY SCHOOLS: $8k → 12%FOOD INSIGHT GROUP: $15k → 13%CHEROKEE COUNTY SCHOOLS: $10k → 15%SCHOOL NUTRITION ASSOCIATION OF NC: $15k → 16%DUPLIN COUNTY SCHOOLS: $6k → 20%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 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
Uptown Farmers Market

Our mission is to engage our neighbors around locally grown, fresh foods to support local farmers and food artisans, educate on healthy eating, and eliminate food insecurity in our charlotte community.

Food & Nutrition
2
Southern Black Policy & Advocacy Network

The mission of the Southern Black Policy and Advocacy Network is to improve health outcomes and to reduce social and economic disparities impacting Black communities living in the U.S. South.

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3
Black Urban Farmers Association
Food & Nutrition
4
Us Farmers and Ranchers Alliance

MISSION: bring all of American agriculture together, with farmers and ranchers at the center, to collectively identify and tackle critical, long-term issues. We collaborate, communicate, educate, advocate and utilize science to advance the…

Community Improvement
5
Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina

Convene and connect diverse stakeholders to align and catalyze efforts to improve health and well-being for communities across South Carolina.

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6
Agricultural Health Benefits Alliance Educational Foundation Llc
Education
7
Farmer Foodshare Inc

Our mission is to increase access to fresh, local food for all while supporting the viability of marginalized farmers to create a more equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition
8
Partnership for a Healthier America Inc

Advancing equitable access to nutritious food for all in America to lead healthy lives.

Youth Development
9
New Orleans Food Policy Advisory Committee

a Education and outreach for systems change in order to improve equity opportunity and collaboration in the local food system. b Convening and engage individuals organizations and businesses working in the food system.

Food & Nutrition
10
Community Farmers Markets Inc

To develop a local food infrastructure for long term sustainability and meaningful community impact and grow a diverse local food culture by maintaining an authentic space for all people to share community, fair food, and healthy…

Food & Nutrition
11
Saba Grocers Initiative

A healthy community where everyone has access to quality, nutritious, healthy food can be achieved through a synergistic relationship between stores and the communities they serve. Corner stores/community markets can serve as an important…

Food & Nutrition
12
Equitable Food Initiative

EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carolina Farm Stewardship Association; the most unlike its peers is Upstream Works. 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

6 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. 6 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
6/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

A BETTER CHANCE A BETTER COMMUNITY: $200,000 · OtherA BETTER CHANCE A BETTER COMMUNITYHENDERSON COLLEGIATE INC: $73,971 · Other+64 more: $1,317,538 · Other+64 moreThe Center for Black Health and Equity: $480,000 · HealthThe Center for Black Heal…Upstream Works: $33,250 · Community ImprovementMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HIGH POINT FOOD ALLIANCE: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,591,509Health$480,000Community Improvement$33,250Philanthropy$15,000Food & Nutrition$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Center for Black Health and Equity: $480,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetUpstream Works: $33,250 over 1y, 12% of budgetMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER HIGH POINT FOOD ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE SCHOOL NUTRITION ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CAROLINA: $15,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds The Center for Black Health and Equity ↗
  • Who funds Upstream Works ↗
  • Who funds MOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds GREATER HIGH POINT FOOD ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds THE SCHOOL NUTRITION ASSOCIATION OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION ↗

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.

North Carolina High School Athletic Association IncNC26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Carolina High School Athletic Association Inc · Share Our Strength · Foundation for the Carolinas · Nchsaa Foundation Inc · The Golden Leaf Inc · NRA Foundation Inc · Nc Greenpower Corporation · Duke Energy Foundation · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 North Carolina Alliance for Health funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Carolina Alliance for Health. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    3report 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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to North Carolina Alliance for Health?

    Find your warmest path to North Carolina Alliance for Health through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 70 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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