· Public charity
North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation
Sale of electric power to nc distribution member cooperatives.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -6% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.
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