How much did NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION reported 732 grants totaling $33,025,036 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION based?

NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is based in NC.

NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

We succeed through a unique statewide network of affiliates that leverages the collective power of local leadership to effect meaningful change throughout north carolina.

$33M

Granted FY2025

732

Grants

Communities

$3.5M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

nationwidesocial mediadiagnosed breastovarian cancerreleasedoakdalemethodist retirement

2020

muscconduithamptonuwcfainvestmentsdeterminecoastal strives

2021

board electionsuscoak caresjob trainingcommitted buildingbuilding foundationsfoundations seek

2022

ecsuprovisionbridgeprovisionlikegalahealth insuranceorthodox

2023

pledgerespitehuntington's diseasepretty pinkjyjnursingwellbeing

2024

food foodfood banksbanks pantriespantries soupsoup kitchensclinicsanimal protection

2025

statedmuseumhistoryemergency managementtheatreanimal rescueblue ridge

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 732 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k191 grants · $1.3M
$10k–50k405 grants · $8.4M
$50k–250k120 grants · $11M
$250k+16 grants · $10.0M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$569M

Total assets

Largest grants

MANNA FOODBANK$3,506,000
DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY$1,041,280
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$769,175
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN$638,200
EASTWOOD COMMUNITY CHURCH$600,000
NC INNOVATION$400,000
NC PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN$375,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$340,173
MAINSPRING CONSERVATION TRUST INC$325,000
RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$320,564
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$306,153
PRESERVATION STATESVILLE$300,000
WEDDINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC$300,000
NORTH CAROLINA COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC$250,000
MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION$250,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $11.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 21% of NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$152M · 877 repeat orgs$27M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

877 repeat relationships — 495 still active in FY2025, 382 since wound down; 195 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

877

621

Total granted

$152M

$20M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+34%

Still filing today

75%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY
6× · 2020–2025 · $15M · revenue +451% · 34% of their budget
SR
SE RALEIGH PROMISE INC
5× · 2019–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +688% · 54% of their budget
MANNA FOODBANK
5× · 2018–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +185%

Funded once

NC
NC COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +200%
NP
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $1.5M · revenue +241%
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUSTgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $997k · revenue +426%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Carolina University

A Christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education

North Carolina Independent

To promote higher education at private colleges & universities in north carolina

Education

Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Provide quality healthcare to the people of edgecombe, nash and wilson counties.

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Wnc Communities

WNC Communities empowers the people of Western North Carolina to cultivate the vitality and prosperity of mountain communities through collaboration and agricultural opportunities.

Food & Nutrition

North Carolina Community

North carolina community development initiative is a statewide public- private partnership that provides leadership and capital investment to high-performance community development corporations (cdcs) as well as other comminity based…

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Housing for New Hope

Ending homelessness in durham, north carolina

Housing & Shelter

North Carolina State University

Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.

Education

North Carolina Partnership for

Advance a high quality, comprehensive, accountable early childhood system that benefits each child in north carolina beginning with a healthy birth.

Education

South Carolina Council On

Providing actionable research, supporting industry clusters, and furthering education and workforce development.

Community Improvement

The University of North Carolina At

To accept the transfer of assets from the uncg endowment fund and the affiliated foundations, which benefit the university, and to manage the investment of those assets.

Education

First Choice Community Health Ctrs

Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.

Health

North Carolina Institute for

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free Will Baptist Children's Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%20/1,591

the rest of the field

13%

6,797/51,589

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.

06the grantee network

1219 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

451

Early backer (in before they grew)

1180/1219

Grantees still filing

921/1219

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$88,518,369Education$26,758,758Human Services$16,912,291Recreation & Sports$15,068,073Health$12,837,543Philanthropy$11,511,348Arts & Culture$7,134,600

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.

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.

The Cannon Foundation IncNC143.9× affinity223 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Camber Foundation · The Landfall Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · George Foundation Inc · Anonymous Trust · The Golden LEAF Inc · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith · The Robert P Holding Foundation Inc · United Way of the Cape Fear Area 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 organisation NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NORTH CAROLINA FIREFIGHTER'S FUND.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~11 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 271198557 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NORTH CAROLINA FIREFIGHTER'S FUND, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 98% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to North Carolina Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to North Carolina Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines