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· Public charity

North Carolina Amateur Sports Inc

To promote health and wellness for all ages and skill levels through organizing best-in-class sporting events that enrich the quality of life and enhance the economic well-being of north carolina communities.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$64k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,650
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST PAULS SOCCER ASSOCIATION$5,000
EAST BLADEN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB$5,000
JAY M ROBINSON ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB$4,650
QUEENS UNIVERSITY OF CHARLOTTE$2,000
UNC WILMINGTON$2,000
SURRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$1,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BLACK GIRLS DO BIKEPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND: $12k → 11%PANTHERS U SPORTS ACADEMY MINISTRIES: $3k → 8%JAY M ROBINSON ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $5k → 8%QUEENS UNIVERSITY OF CHARLOTTE: $2k → 10%DURHAM STRIDERS YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 11%UNC WILMINGTON: $2k → 12%BELMONT ROWING CENTERNORTH CHARLOTTE ROWING INC: $3k → 12%RACING IN THE WOODS INC: $2k → 16%SURRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 17%EAST BLADEN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $5k → 19%ST PAULS SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $5k → 26%BLACK GIRLS DO BIKEPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND: $8k → 11%KNOTHOLE FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 10%UNC WILMINGTON: $2k → 12%UNC WILMINGTON: $2k → 12%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
Copperhead Sports Inc
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2
Baldwinsville Baseball Booster Club
Recreation & Sports
3
Falcons Baseball
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4
Jet Box Baseball Club
Recreation & Sports
5
North Carolina Amateur Baseball Club Inc
Recreation & Sports
6
Warren Park Youth Baseball League
Recreation & Sports
7
Mitchell Park Youth Sports League
Recreation & Sports
8
Parker Youth Baseball Club Inc

Youth development through competitive sports

Recreation & Sports
9
Marauders Baseball Club

Youth Baseball league

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10
Trinity Youth Baseball Association
Recreation & Sports
11
Blue Jay Basketball Club
Recreation & Sports
12
Northeast Youth Baseball Incorporat
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Durham Striders Youth Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jay Robinson Middle School Booster Club. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of North Carolina at Wilmington - College of Health & Human Serv: $6,000 · OtherUniversity of North Carolina at Wilmington - C…BULL CITY LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $5,000 · OtherBULL CITY LITTLE LEAGUE INCST PAULS SOCCER ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · OtherST PAULS SOCCER ASSOCIATION INCEAST BLADEN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $5,000 · OtherEAST BLADEN HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUBRELENTLESS ROLLER DERBY INC: $2,440 · OtherRELENTLESS ROLLER DERBY INCRACING IN THE WOODS INC: $1,500 · OtherRACING IN THE WOODS INCSURRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1,500 · OtherSURRY COMMUNITY COLLEGEPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $20,697 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INCKNOTHOLE FOUNDATION KNOTHOLE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsKNOTHOLE FOUND…North Charlotte Rowing Inc dba Belmont Rowing Center: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsNorth Charlott…Durham Striders Youth Association Inc: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsDurham Strider…JAY ROBINSON MIDDLE SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $4,650 · EducationJAY ROBINSO…Queens University of Charlotte: $2,000 · EducationQueens Univ…Panthers U Sports Academy Ministries: $2,500 · Youth Development
Other$26,440Philanthropy$20,697Recreation & Sports$8,000Education$6,650Youth Development$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $20,697 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBULL CITY LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKNOTHOLE FOUNDATION KNOTHOLE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNorth Charlotte Rowing Inc dba Belmont Rowing Center: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDurham Striders Youth Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization North Carolina Amateur Sports Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Carolina Amateur Sports Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 14 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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