· Public charity
North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Inc
To support, represent and advocate for north carolina independent higher education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $584k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $274k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY | $86,893 |
| MARS HILL UNIVERSITY | $67,231 |
| LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE | $64,921 |
| GUILFORD COLLEGE | $54,758 |
| BREVARD COLLEGE | $42,398 |
| MONTREAT COLLEGE | $39,282 |
| GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY | $37,415 |
| CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY | $31,220 |
| WINGATE UNIVERSITY | $26,574 |
| NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE | $25,469 |
| BARTON COLLEGE | $25,305 |
| PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY | $24,547 |
| BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE | $23,702 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE | $23,641 |
| MEREDITH COLLEGE | $23,569 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
36 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MHMARS HILL UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +19%
- GUGARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $288k · revenue +15%
- LCLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $241k · revenue +25%
Funded once
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
The purpose of wofford college is to function as a liberal arts institution of superior quality. its chief concern is the development of an intellectual, spiritual, and aesthetic atmosphere in which serious and inquiring minds of students…
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
As new york's leading university for character education, rwu is a community of learners committed to historic christianity which seeks to prepare thoughtful, spiritually mature, service-oriented people who will transform society.
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…
Macalester is committed to being a preeminent liberal arts college with an educational program known for its high standards for scholarship and its special emphasis on internationalism, multiculturalism, and service to society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lenoir-Rhyne University and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 74 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 36 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 GUILFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MARS HILL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BARTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WINGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PFEIFFER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTREAT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHOWAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Greensboro College Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LOUISBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WARREN WILSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Livingstone College ↗
- Who funds THE SHAW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BENNETT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
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 · Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · National Collegiate Athletic Association · North Carolina Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Edward M Armfield Sr Foundation I · Council of Independent Colleges · Folds of Honor Foundation · Patriot Foundation · The Dickson 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 Independent Colleges and Universities 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.
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.