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North Carolina Medical Society Employee Benefit Trust

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$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
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.

Health$511kArts & Culture$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$10k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAROLINA EYE ASSOCIATES$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%HOSPICE OF IREDELL COUNTY INC: $10k → 9%HOSPICE OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC: $7k → 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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$211k · 9 repeat orgs$370k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
24

Total granted

$211k
$320k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+48%

Still filing today

33%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthOther
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

  • CG
    CHARLOTTE GASTRO
    3× · 2019–2023 · $48k
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $47k · revenue -4%
  • TM
    THE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $21k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • RM
    RALEIGH MEDICAL GROUP
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • HP
    HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CHARLOTTE REGIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +56%
  • CE
    CHARLOTTE EYE EAR NOTE & THROAT ASSOCIATES
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
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
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
2
Hospice of Gaston County Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

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3
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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4
Hospice of Fulton County Inc

Care during final stage of life

—
5
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
6
Hospice of Pamlico County Inc

To provide hospice and bereavement care to patients and their families in pamlico and portions of beaufort and craven counties, nc

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7
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
8
Hospice of Davidson County North Carolina Inc

Provide physical, psychological, social, and spiritual services to terminally ill persons and their families.

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9
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
10
Hospicare & Palliative Care Services of Tompkins County Inc

To bring medical expertise and compassionate, respectful, care to people and their loved ones at any stage of a life - threatening illness, and to provide information and education about advanced illness, dying, and bereavement to the…

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11
Hospice of Lake Cumberland Inc

Hospice of lake cumberland offers compassionate care to patients and families struggling to cope with a life-threatening illness.

Human Services
12
Piedmont Healthcare Inc

Piedmont healthcare, inc., ("phc") is organized exclusively for the benefit of, to manage the functions of, and to carry out the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes of its subsidiary organizations.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Piedmont Health Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Carolina Foothills 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 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. 10 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RALEIGH MEDICAL GROUP: $50,000 · OtherRALEIGH MEDICAL GROUPCAROLINA EYE ASSOCIATES: $50,000 · OtherCAROLINA EYE ASSOCIATESCHARLOTTE GASTRO: $47,900 · OtherCHARLOTTE GASTROHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $46,800 · OtherHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INCORTHOPEDIC SPECIALISTS OF NC: $20,700 · OtherCHARLOTTE EYE EAR NOTE & THROAT ASSOCIATES: $20,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 · OtherGASTON FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $20,000 · OtherMID-ATLANTIC EMERGENCY MEDICAL ASSOCIATES PLLC: $19,800 · OtherUROLOGY SPECIALISTS OF THE CAROLINAS PLLC: $17,850 · OtherUROLOGY SPECIALISTS OF THE CAROLINAS: $17,850 · OtherASHEVILLE EYE ASSOCIATES: $16,600 · Other+16 more: $148,950 · Other+16 moreTHE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE: $21,050 · HealthTHE MENTA…PIEDMONT HEALTH SERVICES INC: $20,000 · HealthPIEDMONT …Triad Adult & Pediatric Medicine Inc: $6,100 · HealthTriad Adu…HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CHARLOTTE REGION: $20,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF IREDELL COUNTY INC: $10,300 · Human ServicesCarolina Foothills Foundation: $7,300 · Human Services
Other$496,450Health$47,150Human Services$37,600

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $46,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE: $21,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CHARLOTTE REGION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIEDMONT HEALTH SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGASTON FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF IREDELL COUNTY INC: $10,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarolina Foothills Foundation: $7,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTriad Adult & Pediatric Medicine Inc: $6,100 over 1y, 0.1% 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 HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MENTAL HEALTH FUND INC DBA CATAWBA VALLEY HEALTHCARE ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CHARLOTTE REGION ↗
  • Who funds PIEDMONT HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GASTON FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF IREDELL COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Carolina Foothills Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Triad Adult & Pediatric Medicine Inc ↗

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 IncNC12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cannon Foundation Inc · Reach Out and Read Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Medical Society Employee Benefit Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Carolina Medical Society Employee Benefit Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to North Carolina Medical Society Employee Benefit Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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