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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.

$4.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$467k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$9.6MPublic Benefit$94k
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 36 grants below total $4,445,317, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,560,669 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $115,352 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $330k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $582k
  • $250k+8 grants · $3.5M
$19,305
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RAND CORPORATION: $94k → 14%WAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $457k → 8%BRUNSWICK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $200k → 9%JOHNSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $460k → 10%HAYWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $58k → 12%CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $457k → 12%BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $60k → 12%ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $201k → 12%WESTERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $75k → 13%ALAMANCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $457k → 13%STANLY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $51k → 13%NASH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $114k → 15%FORSYTH TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $457k → 15%MCDOWELL TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $109k → 16%CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $51k → 16%MONTGOMERY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $51k → 16%ISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $111k → 16%CLEVELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $286k → 17%SURRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $211k → 17%SOUTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $117k → 18%BEAUFORT COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $51k → 18%THE FOUNDATION OF WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE INC: $51k → 18%WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $200k → 19%HALIFAX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $106k → 20%WILSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $52k → 20%VANCE-GRANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT FUND: $109k → 20%SOUTH PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $201k → 22%RICHMOND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $51k → 23%ROBESON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $52k → 26%NC COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM: $162k → 8%NASH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $108k → 15%MCDOWELL TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $108k → 16%CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $467k → 16%ISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $109k → 16%SURRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $55k → 17%SOUTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $104k → 18%HALIFAX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $104k → 20%VANCE-GRANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT FUND: $106k → 20%NC COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM: $125k → 8%NASH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $104k → 15%MCDOWELL TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $104k → 16%ISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $108k → 16%SOUTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $104k → 18%HALIFAX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $104k → 20%VANCE-GRANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT FUND: $104k → 20%NC COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM: $63k → 8%MCDOWELL TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $62k → 16%ISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $52k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.3M · 42 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
26

Total granted

$8.3M
$909k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%
+139%

Still filing today

48%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $495k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION OF CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $546k · revenue +172%
  • IC
    ISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $428k · revenue +523% · 63% of their budget
  • SC
    Southwestern Community College Foundation Inc
    5× · 2020–2025 · $393k · revenue +164%

Funded once

  • LC
    LENOIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue -6%
  • BC
    Brunswick Community College Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +42%
  • The Rand Corporation
    one grant, 2023 · $94k · revenue -1%
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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.

Education
2
Coastal Carolina Community College Foundation Inc

The college foundation is organized and exists to help support the purpose and objectives of coastal carolina community college and to provide financial and other support beyond that which can be obtained through normal sources. funds…

Education
3
Manchester Community College Foundation Inc

Manchester community college foundation advances the academic, economic, and personal growth of diverse populations by finding sources of funding which will be used to assist the college in achieving its mission and goals.

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4
Brookdale Community College Foundation Trust

The mission of the Foundation is to help students achieve their dream of earning a college degree. The Foundation solicits individuals, businesses, organizations, and private foundations to support and fund student scholarships and grants.

Philanthropy
5
Northampton County Area Community College Foundation

The Northampton Community College Foundation, raises, invests and manages private resources for Northampton Community College, it's students, and it's staff.

Education
6
Central Virginia Community College Educational Foundationinc

To provide for scholarships, faculty & staff development and instructor equipment

Education
7
Rainy River Community College Foundation

Investing in student success and our communitys future through scholarships and college development

Education
8
The Foundation for Florida Gateway College Inc

The foundation provides academic scholarships and financial support to the college.

Education
9
Blue Ridge Community College Educational Foundation Inc

The brcc educational foundation builds community relationships and secures resources to strengthen the programs and services of blue ridge community college. the college's impact on the community is profound, providing the pathway to…

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10
Camden County College Foundation

The foundation was organized to further the educational purposes of camden county college.

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11
Morgan Community College Foundation

The Foundation is dedicated to securing financial resources for hte growth and development of Morgan Community Collge and promoting a superior environment for learning.

Education
12
Itawamba Community College Foundation Inc

Funded to benefit and support Itawamba Community College a state-supported two-year college.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Fear Community College Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
25/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $485,739 · OtherCAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGECENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $483,932 · OtherCENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGEAlamance Community College: $476,432 · OtherAlamance Community CollegeJOHNSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $470,059 · OtherJOHNSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGEFORSYTH TECH COMM COLLEGE: $462,932 · OtherFORSYTH TECH COMM COLLEGEWAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $462,932 · OtherWAKE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGEHalifax Community College Foundation Inc: $414,260 · OtherHalifax Community College Foundation IncTHE VANCE-GRANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $374,853 · OtherTHE VANCE-GRANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCNorth Carolina Community College System: $350,656 · OtherNorth Carolina Community College SystemMCDOWELL TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $335,453 · OtherMCDOWELL TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGENASH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $325,760 · OtherNASH COMMUNITY COLLEGEBrunswick Community College Foundation Inc: $200,000 · Other+37 more: $754,691 · Other+37 moreISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $428,089 · EducationISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION …Southwestern Community College Foundation Inc: $392,765 · EducationSouthwestern Community College Foundatio…Cleveland Community College Foundation: $380,239 · EducationCleveland Community College FoundationSURRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $265,250 · EducationSURRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCWILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $232,465 · EducationWILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCSOUTH PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $211,500 · EducationSOUTH PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDAT…Rockingham Community College Foundation Inc: $205,825 · EducationRockingham Community College Foundation …ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $200,911 · EducationASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY C…LENOIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · EducationLENOIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCRICHMOND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $132,029 · Education+15 more: $795,315 · Education+15 moreTHE FOUNDATION OF CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC: $546,102 · PhilanthropyNASH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,500 · PhilanthropyThe Rand Corporation: $93,710 · Public Benefit
Other$5,597,699Education$3,444,388Philanthropy$596,602Public Benefit$93,710

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC: $546,102 over 2y, 12% of budgetISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $428,089 over 5y, 63% of budgetHalifax Community College Foundation Inc: $414,260 over 5y, 88% of budgetSouthwestern Community College Foundation Inc: $392,765 over 5y, 18% of budgetCleveland Community College Foundation: $380,239 over 5y, 29% of budgetTHE VANCE-GRANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $374,853 over 5y, 19% of budgetSURRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $265,250 over 2y, 12% of budgetWILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $232,465 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetSOUTH PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $211,500 over 3y, 37% of budgetRockingham Community College Foundation Inc: $205,825 over 2y, 17% of budgetASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $200,911 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetBrunswick Community College Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetRICHMOND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $132,029 over 5y, 14% of budgetBLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $110,940 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBEAUFORT COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $110,260 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $93,710 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $80,953 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF THE ALBEMARLE FOUNDATION INC: $80,953 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWESTERN PIEDMONT FOUNDATION INC: $75,256 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetSTANLY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $72,453 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetCENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUND: $66,250 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetMCDOWELL TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $62,244 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetHaywood Community College Found: $57,960 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetROBESON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $51,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetBLADEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,500 over 1y, 53% of budgetJAMES SPRUNT FOUNDATION INC: $50,500 over 1y, 21% of budgetNASH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFOUNDATION OF WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $50,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMayland Community College Foundation Inc: $48,561 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGASTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $26,400 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDAVIDSON-DAVIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $18,953 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFAYETTEVILLE TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $18,455 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCATAWBA VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $17,523 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTri-County Community College Foundation: $13,009 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $8,318 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRANDOLPH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $5,453 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

The Golden Leaf IncFoundation for the Ca…The Cannon Foundation…Patriot FoundationCharles a Cannon Trus…North Carolina Commun…John M Belk EndowmentState Employees Credi…I Car Education Found…Duke Energy FoundationThe Community Foundat…Dogwood Health Trust
The Golden Leaf IncNC72.6× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization North Carolina Community Colleges Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Carolina Community Colleges Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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