· 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.
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k1 grant · $79k
- $250k+1 grant · $569k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $569,296 |
| NC WILDLIFE RESOURCE COMMISSION | $78,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DUDucks Unlimited Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $974k · revenue +105%
- NWNC WILDLIFE RESOURCE COMMISSION2× · 2021–2025 · $283k
- PDPEE DEE LAND TRUST2× · 2020–2021 · $191k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- NCNORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INCgraduated3× · 2019–2025 · $340k · revenue +295%
- TOTOWN OF CEDAR POINTone grant, 2019 · $250k
- TOTOWN OF SHALLOTTEone grant, 2018 · $45k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
5 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. 5 of the 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization North Carolina Coastal Land Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Carolina Coastal Land Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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