· Public charity
North Carolina Black Alliance Inc
The North Carolina Black Alliance (NCBA) works toward state-level systemic change by strengthening the network of elected officials representing communities of color throughout the state and collaborating with progressive, grassroots networks on intersecting issues.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $265,700 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $490,312 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $224,612 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $229k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORD TABERNACLE CHURCH | $40,000 |
| ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC | $20,000 |
| WALLS PRODUCTION | $16,000 |
| WAYNE OMEGA UPLIFT FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR NC A&T ST UNIV | $15,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIV | $13,000 |
| KINSTON TEENS INC | $10,000 |
| BENNETT COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| HEARO INC | $10,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVER | $10,000 |
| GOLDSBORO WAYNE NAACP | $10,000 |
| THE APPLE OF HIS EYE APOSTOLI | $10,000 |
| ROOTFUL MEDIA | $10,000 |
| EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA CIVIC | $10,000 |
| GLOBAL REDEMPTION ENTERPRISES | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 32% 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
Emancipate NC Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +19%- TATHE APPLE OF HIS EYE MINISTRY3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · 28% of their budget
- ENEASTERN NC CIVIC GROUP3× · 2022–2024 · $40k
Funded once
- SDSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +100%
- CCCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +100%
- MTMAJOR TAYLOR COMMUNITY OUTREACHone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To support, represent and advocate for north carolina independent higher education.
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
The College is an institution of higher education and provides instruction and various support services in achieving its purpose.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
Benedict college is committed to providing transformative learning experiences characterized by high quality academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular programming, intentionally designed to develop superior cultural and professional…
To inform, involve and serve members of the ecu family throughout their lifelong relationship with the university through the promotion of goodwill and recognition of students and alumni.
The nc state alumni association engages alumni and friends through programs and services that foster pride and enhance a lifelong connection to nc state university ("nc state").
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Apple of His Eye Ministry. 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 26 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) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 35 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 Emancipate NC Inc ↗
- Who funds THE APPLE OF HIS EYE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds BENNETT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for NC A&T State University ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND ↗
- Who funds ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE-GROUP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NORTH CAROLINA LEGAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kinston Teens Inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OBERLIN VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds International Union UAW LOCAL 5287 ↗
- Who funds THE SHAW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ENERGY EDUCATION FKA SOLAR CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Livingstone College ↗
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: Blueprint North Carolina · North Carolina Community Foundation · Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Educational Credit Management Corporation · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault Inc · National Center for Teacher Residencies · Tom Joyner Foundation Inc · Duke University · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation 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 North Carolina Black Alliance 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.
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.