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North Carolina Medical Society Foundation Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

North Carolina Medical Society Foundation Inc

To improve access to quality healthcare for all north carolinians.

$659k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$113k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Public Safety & Disaster$26MHealth$689kEducation$580k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $202,694, the rows itemized in this filing. The $658,505 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $455,811 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $163k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DR LORNA BREEN HEROES' FOUNDATION$113,275
TIDES INC$50,000
NC PROFESSIONALS HEALTH PROGRAM$15,000
OCRACOKE HEALTH CENTER INC$12,669
COALITION FOR PHYSICIANS WELL BEING$11,750
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COALITION FOR PHYSICIANS WELL BEING: $12k → 11%NC PROFESSIONALS HEALTH PROGRAM: $15k → 8%BOILING SPRING LAKES FAMILY MEDICIN: $21k → 9%BLACK RIVER HEALTH SERVICES INC: $23k → 11%DERMATOLOGY ASSOCIATES PA: $13k → 12%CAROLINAS CENTER FOR SURGERY: $68k → 12%HENDERSONVILLE PEDIATRICS: $100k → 12%MARK L HOCH MC PLLC: $10k → 12%ONSLOW OPTHALMOLOGY PA: $25k → 12%ASHE FAMILY HEALTHCARE: $10k → 14%MOUNTAIN MEDICAL ARTS PLLC: $10k → 15%DOCTOR T MD PLLC: $10k → 15%BRIE FOLKNER MD PC: $15k → 16%REHABILITATION MEDICAL SERVICES PC: $13k → 16%FAITH PRIMARY CARE: $100k → 16%KINGS CLINIC AND URGENT CARE PLLC: $10k → 17%OCRACOKE HEALTH CENTER INC: $13k → 21%WHITEVILLESAV LLC-NCMSF: $48k → 21%HOPE HEALTH FAMILY PRACTICE: $10k → 26%DR LORNA BREEN HEROES' FOUNDATION: $150k → 8%BRUNSWICK FAMILY MEDICINE PA: $19k → 9%REGINA M JENSEN MD: $13k → 12%CARTERET OBGYN ASSOCIATES: $40k → 12%LEGACY RECOVERY AND WELLNESS PC: $10k → 12%RIVERROCK CLINIC PLLC: $10k → 12%JACKSONVILLE OBGYN & FERTILITY: $20k → 12%WHITEVILLE EYE ASSOCIATES PA: $13k → 21%DR LORNA BREEN HEROES' FOUNDATION: $113k → 8%TIDES INC: $50k → 12%CRYSTAL COAST PAIN MANAGEMENT CNTR: $21k → 12%HENDERSONVILLE DERMATOLOGY PLLC: $10k → 12%RACHAEL MCLEAN PA-C PLLC: $10k → 12%JOHNSTON PAIN MANAGEMENT PA: $10k → 12%G & G HEALTHCARE PC: $12k → 21%DELANEY RADIOLOGIST GROUP PLLC: $13k → 12%BEACH CARE URGENT & FAMILY MEDICAL: $10k → 12%SERENITY PSYCHIATRY OF NC PLLC: $10k → 12%SANDPIPER PEDIATRICS: $14k → 21%COASTAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $13k → 12%SOUND MEDICAL PA: $10k → 12%ASHEVILLE REGENERATIVE ORTHOPEDICS: $10k → 12%BILTMORE DERMATOLOGY ASSOCIATES: $10k → 12%FORSNIGHT CENTER FOR SEXUAL HEALTH: $10k → 12%ASHEVILLE NON-SURGICAL ORTHOPEDICS: $10k → 12%ASHEVILLE EAR NOSE & THROAT PA: $10k → 12%BEACON DERMATOLOGY PLLC: $10k → 12%ASHEVILLE PEDIATRIC ASSOCIATES: $10k → 12%ASHEVILLE CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $10k → 12%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 field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 59 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETY: $1,109,117 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETYCAROLINAS CENTER FOR SURGERY: $107,500 · OtherHENDERSONVILLE PEDIATRICS: $100,000 · OtherFAITH PRIMARY CARE: $100,000 · Other+50 more: $657,138 · Other+50 moreDR LORNA BREEN HEROES' FOUNDATION: $263,275 · HealthDR LORNA BREEN …TIDES INC: $50,000 · HealthTIDES INCNORTH CAROLINA PHYSICIANS HEALTH PROGRAM INC: $15,000 · HealthOCRACOKE HEALTH CENTER INC: $12,669 · HealthCoalition for Physician Well-Being Inc: $11,750 · Education
Other$2,073,755Health$340,944Education$11,750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETY: $1,109,117 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetDR LORNA BREEN HEROES' FOUNDATION: $263,275 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetTIDES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetBLACK RIVER HEALTH SERVICES INC: $23,112 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOCRACOKE HEALTH CENTER INC: $12,669 over 1y, 0.3% 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 NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DR LORNA BREEN HEROES' FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TIDES INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK RIVER HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA PHYSICIANS HEALTH PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds OCRACOKE HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Coalition for Physician Well-Being 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Community Care of Nor…
Community Care of North Carolina IncNC19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
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no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 59 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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