North Carolina · Public charity
North Carolina Coastal Land Trust
The organization's primary exempt purpose is acquiring and protecting lands of regional and national conservation and/or historic significance in the coastal plain of north carolina.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
88% of North Carolina Coastal Land Trust’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Nature Conservancy, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2025
- $648k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $569,296
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $569,296
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 3
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $65M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations North Carolina Coastal Land Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $79k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $122k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $17k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $594k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $278k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $367k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $590k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $55k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $973,936 | 5 | 0% |
| North Carolina Coastal Federation Inc | $340,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Nc Wildlife Resource Commission | $282,850 | 2 | n/a |
| Town of Cedar Point | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pee Dee Land Trust | $190,776 | 2 | 23% |
| Town of Shallotte | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Slick Family Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| University of North Carolina at Wilmington - College of Health & Human Serv | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas
How this is measured
About North Carolina Coastal Land Trust
- How much does North Carolina Coastal Land Trust give?
- North Carolina Coastal Land Trust reported 2 itemized grants totaling $647,796, out of $3,041,994 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does North Carolina Coastal Land Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (93%), Animals (7%), Education (0%).
- Who are North Carolina Coastal Land Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ducks Unlimited Inc ($974k), North Carolina Coastal Federation Inc ($340k), Nc Wildlife Resource Commission ($283k).
- Does North Carolina Coastal Land Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as North Carolina Coastal Land Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas.
- Where is North Carolina Coastal Land Trust based?
- North Carolina Coastal Land Trust is based in NC.
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