· Public charity
North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation
Sale of electric power to nc distribution member cooperatives.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of NORTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION’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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $388k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NC AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION | $68,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA CHAMBER | $50,000 |
| ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP | $49,500 |
| ENERGYUNITED | $36,104 |
| NRECA INTERNATIONAL LTD | $25,000 |
| NC DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND CONSUMER SERVICE | $24,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE EMC | $17,591 |
| BRUNSWICK EMC | $16,566 |
| RUTHERFORD EMC | $15,871 |
| THE SOUTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP INC | $15,000 |
| NC BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| LEADERSHIP OF NORTH CAROLINA | $15,000 |
| NC LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| UNION POWER COOPERATIVE | $14,605 |
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 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- TNTHE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $638k · revenue +55%
- EDECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP OF NORTH CAROLINA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $403k · revenue +119%
- EEENERGYUNITED ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CO9× · 2017–2025 · $322k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- NCNorth Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consuone grant, 2021 · $30k
NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $26k · revenue -7%- ECE4 Carolinas Incone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -24%
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.
Provide programs and services in support of rural electricifation
To provide the best electric service to all who desire it within the system area at the lowest price consistent with highest standards of service.
To promote and encourage the use of electric energy and make it available to consumers at the lowest possible cost consistent with sound economy and good management.
To assist members of the corporation in providing electric energy to consumers in the members' service areas.
South central power company exists to add value to the lives of our members by delivering safe and dependable service.
The north american electric reliability corporation (nerc) is a not-for-profit international regulatory authority whose mission is to assure the effective and efficient reduction of risks to the reliability and security of the grid.
To advocate for members and students, to enhance the education profession, and to advance public education.
Nc greenpower's mission is to expand public knowledge and acceptance of cleaner energy technologies to all north carolinians through local, community based initiatives.
Roanoke emc: https://www.roanokecooperative.com/about-us/corporate-strategy/ to pursue innovation relentlessly and offer the finest, most reliable, and cost-efficient services in the industry. the co-op will serve member-owners tirelessly…
To be the trusted provider of financial services to every eligible member and to enhance the quality of their lives and financial well-being while maintaining our fiscal strength.
To promote and educate to ensure a socially responsible and profitable NC Pork Industry.
Ncsea is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit membership organization whose mission is to drive policy and market development to create clean energy jobs, economic opportunities, and affordable energy that benefits all of north carolina.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Institute of Political Leadership. 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 49 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 76 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 NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds ENERGYUNITED ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CO ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA CHAMBER ↗
- Who funds NRECA INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA AGRIBUSINESS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP ↗
- Who funds BRUNSWICK ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUC ↗
- Who funds RUTHERFORD ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNION ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JONES-ONSLOW ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FOUR COUNTY ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP ↗
- Who funds WAKE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LUMBEE RIVER ELEC MEMBERSHIP CORP ↗
- Who funds SOUTH RIVER ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CARTERET-CRAVEN ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA FREEENTERPRISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAYWOOD ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR REFORM INC ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SURRY-YADKIN ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Carolina Common Enterprise ↗
- Who funds TIDELAND ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Tri-County Electric Membership Corporation ↗
- Who funds PEE DEE ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHEASTERN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds TOBACCO FARM LIFE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds OCCONEECHEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #421 ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Anonymous Trust U/A Dated 2-4-2008 · Dogwood Health Trust · Duke Energy Foundation · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Ibm International Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Electric Membership Corporation 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.