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North Carolina Museum of Life & Science Inc

To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.

$286k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $171k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY$60,107
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE$54,252
CATALYST CONSULTING GROUP$25,608
GARIBAY GROUP INC$24,640
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$21,221
HOLLY-GROVE DIXON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION$10,000
THE WORKS INC$10,000
WEST HARLEM ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION INC (WE ACT)$10,000
VIBRANT HAWAII$10,000
CITY OF MOAB$10,000
THE CENTER FOR NATIVE HEALTH INC$10,000
METRO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
CARIBBEAN REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC$10,000
GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC$10,000
YUMA COUNTY FREE LIBRARY DISTRICT$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 58% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%YUMA COUNTY FREE LIBRARY DISTRICT: $10k → 15%MUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $54k → 16%VIBRANT HAWAII: $10k → 15%METRO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10k → 13%WEST HARLEM ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION INC (WE ACT): $10k → 17%GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC: $10k → 9%THE WORKS INC: $10k → 17%CATALYST CONSULTING GROUP: $26k → 11%THE CENTER FOR NATIVE HEALTH INC: $10k → 18%CITY OF MOAB: $10k → 11%UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $60k → 12%GARIBAY GROUP INC: $25k → 14%HOLLY-GROVE DIXON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $10k → 23%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
MA
CT
UT
AZ
TN
NC
HI
LA
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

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
Good Work Institute Inc

The charitable activities of the Good Work Institute are designed to strengthen collaboration; address legacies of unequal power; and encourage a transition to regenerative ecological and social systems.

Human Services
2
Northeast Brooklyn Housing Develop

The Organization is commited to the preservation, development, and management of affordable housing and home ownership opportunities:community and economic development initiative and human services to effect social change in central…

Housing & Shelter
3
Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture
4
Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp

Develop and provide affordable housing

Education
5
Groundwork Indy Inc

GWIs mission is to foster the sustained regeneration, improvement and management of the environment by developing community-based partnerships which empower people, businesses and organizations to promote environmental, economic & social…

Community Improvement
6
East Buffalo Development Corporation

East Buffalo Development Corporation is a community-based real estate development corporation committed to our mission of leveraging private and public funds to drive equitable and inclusive eastside planning, construction, land use, and…

Community Improvement
7
Binghampton Development Corporation

Build a healthy community by supporting the revitalization of the Binghampton neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee, through housing and economic development.

Community Improvement
8
Community Development Network of Maryland Inc

To promote, strengthen, and advocate for the community development sector throughout Marylands urban, suburban, and rural communities.

Community Improvement
9
Hamilton Heights Neighborhood Organization Inc

To promote neighborhood revitalization and sustainability in the Hamilton Heights, Wells-Goodfellow and surrounding neighborhoods by assisting others, increasing the quality and availability of affordable and market-rate housing, and…

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10
Rochester Downtown Development Corporation

Rochester Downtown Development Corporation drives economic vitality in Downtown Rochester through innovation and collaboration.

Community Improvement
11
The Economic Development Corporation Serving Fresno County

To promote and maintain a strong business climate throughout the city and to foster a healthy and sustainable economy for the benefit of the entire community.

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12
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caribbean Regenerative Community Development; the most unlike its peers is Hollygrove-Dixon Neighborhood Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 15 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $60,107 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITYCATALYST CONSULTING GROUP: $25,608 · OtherCATALYST CONSULTING GROUPGaribay Group Inc: $24,640 · OtherGaribay Group IncARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $21,221 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYCITY OF MOAB: $10,000 · OtherCITY OF MOABYUMA COUNTY RECORDER: $10,000 · OtherYUMA COUNTY RECORDERMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $54,252 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF SCIENCEHOLLYGROVE-DIXON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementHOLLYGROVE-…GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementGROUNDWORK …VIBRANT HAWAII: $10,000 · Community ImprovementVIBRANT HAW…CARIBBEAN REGENERATIVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10,000 · EnvironmentWest Harlem Environmental Action Inc: $10,000 · EnvironmentMetro Community Development Corporation: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Center For Native Health Inc: $10,000 · EducationThe Works Inc: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$151,576Arts & Culture$54,252Community Improvement$30,000Environment$20,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Education$10,000Housing & Shelter$10,000

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 budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $54,252 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOLLYGROVE-DIXON NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% 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.

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.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.6× affinity5 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 Museum of Life & Science Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Carolina Museum of Life & Science Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Groundwork Bridgeport Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of 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)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 15 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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