· Public charity
North Carolina Biotechnology Center
The NORTH CAROLINA BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTER aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and other services to grow [or advance] the industry in north carolina.
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.
The 24 grants below total $3,036,426 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,640,295 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,603,869 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $123k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $612k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNC-CHAPEL HILL | $711,065 |
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY | $486,254 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $451,043 |
| UNC-WILMINGTON | $311,144 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH | $293,627 |
| UNC-CHARLOTTE | $185,280 |
| WILSON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL | $100,000 |
| EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY | $61,697 |
| UNC-ASHEVILLE | $57,632 |
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $54,522 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY - OFFICE OF RESEARCH | $52,337 |
| CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $50,896 |
| NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| RTI INTERNATIONAL | $49,672 |
| FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $32,046 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 42% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 9 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k 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
DUKE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $7.3M · revenue +51%- WFWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES6× · 2020–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +60%
- RTResearch Triangle Institute5× · 2021–2025 · $231k · revenue +30%
Funded once
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $487k · revenue +30%- TOTown of Holly Springsone grant, 2022 · $275k
- COCITY OF GREENVILLEone grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Campbell University and the most unlike its peers is WakeMed. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 78 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
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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Research Triangle Institute ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds The University of North Carolina at Asheville Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST FLIGHT VENTURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINAS EASTERN ALLIANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
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: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Golden Leaf Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Patriot Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Ncinnovation Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · North Carolina Public Health Association · North Carolina Community Colleges 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 North Carolina Biotechnology Center 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.
- Society for in Vitro Biology — 20% of income from government
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.