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North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Inc

To support, represent and advocate for north carolina independent higher education.

$899k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$87k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$6.6M
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $584k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $274k
$22,066
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WINGATE UNIVERSITY: $36k → 7%JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY: $36k → 10%BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE: $41k → 12%MONTREAT COLLEGE: $39k → 12%LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY: $36k → 12%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $42k → 13%BREVARD COLLEGE: $42k → 13%NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $36k → 15%CATAWBA COLLEGE: $38k → 15%MARS HILL UNIVERSITY: $67k → 15%GREENSBORO COLLEGE: $35k → 16%GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $52k → 17%BARTON COLLEGE: $40k → 20%LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE: $65k → 21%CHOWAN UNIVERSITY: $38k → 23%MONTREAT COLLEGE: $36k → 12%LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY: $35k → 12%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $37k → 13%NORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $35k → 15%CATAWBA COLLEGE: $36k → 15%MARS HILL UNIVERSITY: $45k → 15%GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $46k → 17%BARTON COLLEGE: $35k → 20%LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE: $34k → 21%CHOWAN UNIVERSITY: $34k → 23%CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $34k → 13%LIVINGSTONE COLLEGE: $35k → 15%MARS HILL UNIVERSITY: $45k → 15%GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $37k → 17%GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $35k → 17%GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $34k → 17%QUEENS UNIVERSITY OF CHARLOTTE: $34k → 10%MEREDITH COLLEGE: $53k → 8%HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $87k → 16%MEREDITH COLLEGE: $51k → 8%HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $72k → 16%MEREDITH COLLEGE: $46k → 8%HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $48k → 16%HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $35k → 16%WILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY: $34k → 8%GUILFORD COLLEGE: $93k → 16%GUILFORD COLLEGE: $77k → 16%GUILFORD COLLEGE: $72k → 16%GUILFORD COLLEGE: $66k → 16%GUILFORD COLLEGE: $66k → 16%GUILFORD COLLEGE: $55k → 16%GUILFORD COLLEGE: $41k → 16%GUILFORD COLLEGE: $37k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.6M · 36 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
0

Total granted

$6.6M
$0

Still filing today

92%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MH
    MARS HILL UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +19%
  • GU
    GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $288k · revenue +15%
  • LC
    LEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $241k · revenue +25%

Funded once

    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.

    04Its field

    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.

    1
    Wilson College

    Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

    Education
    2
    Greenville College

    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.

    Education
    3
    Greensboro College

    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.

    Education
    4
    Lehigh University

    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
    5
    LaGrange College

    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…

    Education
    6
    Wofford College

    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…

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    7
    Coker University

    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…

    Education
    8
    Roberts Wesleyan University

    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.

    Education
    9
    Columbia College

    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.

    Education
    10
    University of the South

    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…

    Education
    11
    Carleton College

    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…

    Education
    12
    Macalester College

    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.

    Education
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lenoir-Rhyne University; 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.
    04the grantee network

    33 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. 33 of the 36 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.

    1
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    1
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    33/33
    Grantees still filing
    21/33
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    GUILFORD COLLEGE: $506,687 · EducationGUILFORD COLLEGEMEREDITH COLLEGE: $291,954 · EducationMARS HILL UNIVERSITY: $289,914 · EducationGARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $288,281 · EducationLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $240,893 · EducationBARTON COLLEGE: $219,978 · EducationLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY: $217,940 · EducationWINGATE UNIVERSITY: $217,671 · EducationCATAWBA COLLEGE: $213,274 · EducationPFEIFFER UNIVERSITY: $212,667 · EducationBELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC: $211,832 · EducationMONTREAT COLLEGE: $211,424 · EducationCHOWAN UNIVERSITY: $211,264 · EducationBREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATION: $206,225 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC: $203,659 · EducationQueens University of Charlotte: $197,470 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC: $193,696 · EducationWILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY: $192,949 · Education+12 more: $1,234,491 · Education+12 moreVILLAGE CHAPEL INC: $350,029 · OtherVILLAGE CHAPE…ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $167,915 · OtherST ANDREWS UN…LOUISBURG COLLEGE: $147,305 · OtherLOUISBURG COL…MISSISSIPPI CRISIS FOUNDATION: $84,654 · OtherMISSISSIPPI C…CABARRUS COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES: $27,450 · OtherCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $240,630 · Philanthropy
    Education$5,562,269Other$777,353Philanthropy$240,630

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGUILFORD COLLEGE: $506,687 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMEREDITH COLLEGE: $291,954 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMARS HILL UNIVERSITY: $289,914 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY: $288,281 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLEES-MCRAE COLLEGE INC: $240,893 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $240,630 over 9y, 15% of budgetBARTON COLLEGE: $219,978 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY: $217,940 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWINGATE UNIVERSITY: $217,671 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCATAWBA COLLEGE: $213,274 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPFEIFFER UNIVERSITY: $212,667 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC: $211,832 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMONTREAT COLLEGE: $211,424 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHOWAN UNIVERSITY: $211,264 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBREVARD COLLEGE CORPORATION: $206,225 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY INC: $203,659 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte: $197,470 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC: $193,696 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY: $192,949 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMETHODIST UNIVERSITY INC: $182,124 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGreensboro College Foundation: $179,802 over 9y, 92% of budgetST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $167,915 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSALEM ACADEMY AND COLLEGE: $165,980 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLOUISBURG COLLEGE: $147,305 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWARREN WILSON COLLEGE: $139,083 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY: $98,935 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLivingstone College: $94,229 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHAW UNIVERSITY: $75,844 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBENNETT COLLEGE: $75,484 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetElon University: $68,336 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $59,723 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $51,936 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College: $43,015 over 9y, 0.0% of budget
    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 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 ↗

    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.

    The Cannon Foundation…Lettie Pate Whitehead…Foundation for the Ca…National Collegiate A…North Carolina Commun…Ibm International Fou…Duke Energy FoundationThe Edward M Armfield…Council of Independen…Folds of Honor Founda…Patriot FoundationThe Dickson Foundatio…
    The Cannon Foundation IncNC39.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    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

    How this is measured
    Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2025
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      1get no government money at all
      14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
      typical government reliance, FY20–25
      How this is measured
      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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

      How this is measured
      Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

      Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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