· Community foundation
North Carolina Community Foundation
The nccf is the single statewide community foundation serving north carolina and was created in 1988 to build capacity through philanthropy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 732 grants below total $30,579,279 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $33,025,036 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,445,757 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 $10k191 grants · $1.3M
- $10k–50k405 grants · $8.4M
- $50k–250k120 grants · $11M
- $250k+16 grants · $10.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| WEDDINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC | $300,000 |
| PRESERVATION STATESVILLE | $300,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| MARBLES KIDS MUSEUM | $250,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $11.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 24% 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 74% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
911 repeat relationships — 492 still active in FY2025, 419 since wound down; 194 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.8M 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
MANNA FOOD BANK INC6× · 2017–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +230%
Save The Children Federation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +21%
CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +6%
Funded once
- NCNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.5M · revenue +670%
- FTFeeding the Carolinasgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +504%
FARMER FOODSHARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +258% · 50% of their budget
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.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…
To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.
To advance the general welfare of the people of eastern north carolina through programs providing housing and childcare assistance as well as poverty elimination strategies to disadvantaged populations.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.
Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.
The specific objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be to assist individuals and communities, particularly those in low-income and socially disadvantaged areas, in the creation, expansion, and improvement of rural and…
To help all union county nc residents gain access to affordable housing, decent jobs, and to develop a sense of security.
Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…
The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…
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 Rescue Dog and End of Life Sanctuary Inc. 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
1269 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1269 of the 1,778 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SE RALEIGH PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds REGION A PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA FIREFIGHTERS FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds NCINNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL & HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY ACTION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA HARM REDUCTION COALITION ↗
- Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Playhouse Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH FOOD SHUTTLE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAVENSCROFT SCHOOL ↗
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 Cannon Foundation Inc · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008 · Camber Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Golden Leaf Inc · The Landfall Foundation Inc · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio · The Robert P Holding Foundation 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 organization 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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.