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North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation Inc

To marshal north carolina's great people, ideas, and achievements to ensure equitable access to opportunity and success for every child.

$78k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Civil Rights$48kEducation$39kHuman Services$27kHealth$8k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $17,014 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $78,013 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $60,999 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$10,771
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE - CAROLINAS$10,771
MOMSRISING$6,243
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE - CAROLINAS: $11k → 10%NATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE - CAROLINAS: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

03Your 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.

1
North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc

The north carolina partnership for children (ncpc) is the lead organization and backbone of the smart start network, setting statewide vision, policy, and funding priorities. while local partnerships translate the statewide vision into…

Education
2
Chatham County Partnership for Children

In collaboration with our community partners, we plan, fund, and implement quality early childhood education, health, and family support initiatives.

Education
3
Partnership for Children of Cumberland County Inc

The partnership's mission is to be the driving force to engage partners to achieve lasting positive outcomes for all children, beginning at birth.

Education
4
Guilford County Partnership for Children Inc

The Guilford County Partnership for Children is a local non-profit strategically directing Smart Start and NC Pre-K funding to ensure equitable access to high quality childcare, professional development for early childhood educators and…

Education
5
Smart Start of Forsyth County

To promote equitable access to quality, comprehensive early childhood development and education in response to the needs of our community.

Education
6
Early Years Inc

Early years leads efforts to strengthen accessible and affordable quality early care and education by providing support for families, communities and the workforce. early years 's primary purpose is to provide services, research and…

7
Martin Pitt Partnership for Children Inc

To make meaningful and measurable investments in the quality of life for young children and families in education, health, and support services.

Education
8
Onslow County Partnership for Children

When they have challenges, we connect all children and their families to programs and resources that provide opportunities and hope.

Education
9
Alamance Partnership for Children Inc

The partnership shares information and mobilizes resources to support alamance county families in creating and sustaining nurturing environments for their children. our vision is that all children arrive at school happy, healthy and…

Education
10
Foundation for Child Development
Education
11
The Campbell Institute

Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.

Unclassified
12
Down East Partnership for Children

Launch every child as a healthy, lifelong learner by the end of the third grade. This is accomplished through working across the four building blocks of early education. 1) Health and development are on track beginning before birth 2)…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Partnership for Young Children and the most unlike its peers is Chatham Education Foundation. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NC CHILD — $25,000 · OtherNC CHILDDurham Co Partnership for Ch — $8,333 · OtherDurham Co Partnership for ChOrange County Partnership for — $8,333 · OtherOrange County Partnership forEMPOWERED PARENTS IN COMMUNITY — $6,557 · OtherEMPOWERED PARENTS IN COMMUNITYNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $21,052 · Human ServicesNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELO…FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORKHOPE — $8,378 · Human ServicesFAMILY SUPPORT NETWORKHOPECHATHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $8,333 · PhilanthropyCHATHAM EDUCATION FOU…CHATHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $8,333 · PhilanthropyCHATHAM EDUCATION FOU…MOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND — $6,243 · PhilanthropyMOMSRISING EDUCATION …DURHAM'S PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $8,333 · EducationDURHAM'S PARTNERSHIP…ORANGE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN — $8,333 · EducationORANGE COUNTY PARTNE…Charlotte Bilingual Learning Center — $5,825 · EducationCharlotte Bilingual …
Other$48,223Human Services$29,430Philanthropy$22,909Education$22,491

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNC CHILD — $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $21,052 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT NETWORKHOPE — $8,378 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetORANGE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN — $8,333 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHATHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $8,333 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetEMPOWERED PARENTS IN COMMUNITY — $6,557 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND — $6,243 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharlotte Bilingual Learning Center — $5,825 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Nc Child · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Early Childhood Foundation Inc 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.

2024
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no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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