· Public charity
North Carolina Community Colleges Foundation
The NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization founded in 1986 to support the mission of the nc community college system.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 36 grants below total $4,445,317 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,560,669 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $115,352 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 $10k4 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $330k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $582k
- $250k+8 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE | $467,479 |
| JOHNSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $460,479 |
| FORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $457,479 |
| CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $457,479 |
| ALAMANCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $457,479 |
| WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $457,479 |
| CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $457,479 |
| CLEVELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $285,711 |
| ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $200,911 |
| NC COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM | $125,460 |
| WESTERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $75,256 |
| MCDOWELL TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $62,244 |
| BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $60,440 |
| HAYWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $57,960 |
| MAYLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $48,561 |
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 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 75% 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.
42 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 18 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $495k 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
- TFTHE FOUNDATION OF CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC2× · 2020–2025 · $546k · revenue +172%
- ICISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $428k · revenue +523% · 63% of their budget
- SCSouthwestern Community College Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $393k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- LCLENOIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue -6%
- BCBrunswick Community College Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +42%
The Rand Corporationone grant, 2023 · $94k · revenue -1%
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 Cape Fear Community College Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Rand Corporation. 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 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 77 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 THE FOUNDATION OF CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Halifax Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Southwestern Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Cleveland Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE VANCE-GRANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SURRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rockingham Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LENOIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Brunswick Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
- Who funds WILSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE OF THE ALBEMARLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STANLY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND ↗
- Who funds MCDOWELL TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Haywood Community College Found ↗
- Who funds ROBESON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLADEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES SPRUNT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NASH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF WAYNE COMMUNITY 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: The Golden Leaf Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Patriot Foundation · Charles a Cannon Trust No 1 · North Carolina Community Foundation · John M Belk Endowment · State Employees Credit Union Foundation · I Car Education Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust
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 Community Colleges Foundation 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.