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North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc

The north carolina partnership for children (ncpc) is the lead organization and backbone of the smart start network, setting statewide vision, policy, and funding priorities.

$126M
Granted FY2025still arriving
77
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$11M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$829MHuman Services$42MYouth Development$6.1MCrime & Legal$2.8MHealth$97kCommunity Improvement$42kPhilanthropy$1kOther$80M
02FY2025 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k4 grants · $761k
  • $250k+73 grants · $126M
$1,018,253
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EARLY YEARS INC$11,322,926
WAKE COUNTY SMARTSTART$8,837,980
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION$7,703,625
MECKLENBURG PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN$7,110,629
DURHAM'S PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN$5,723,842
ONSLOW COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC$5,140,444
SMART START OF FORSYTH COUNTY$4,614,777
PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC$3,757,008
GUILFORD COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC$3,543,641
BUNCOMBE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC$3,055,117
SMART START OF DAVIDSON COUNTY INC$2,768,834
DOWN EAST PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN$2,468,322
BURKE COUNTY SMART START INC$2,454,901
PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF LINCOLNGASTON COUNTIES INC$2,098,418
ALBEMARLE ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC$1,873,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $29.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CHILDREN & YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOR DARE COUNTY INC: $377k → 8%IREDELL COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $1.3M → 9%PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC (MOORE COUNTY): $943k → 10%CALDWELL COUNTY SMART START A PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: $1.4M → 16%CHILDREN & YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOR DARE COUNTY INC: $359k → 8%IREDELL COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $1.3M → 9%PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC (MOORE COUNTY): $892k → 10%CALDWELL COUNTY SMART START A PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: $982k → 16%CHILDREN & YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOR DARE COUNTY INC: $334k → 8%IREDELL COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $1.3M → 9%PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC (MOORE COUNTY): $872k → 10%CALDWELL COUNTY SMART START A PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: $938k → 16%CHILDREN & YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOR DARE COUNTY INC: $327k → 8%IREDELL COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $1.3M → 9%PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC (MOORE COUNTY): $809k → 10%CALDWELL COUNTY SMART START A PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: $878k → 16%CHILDREN & YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOR DARE COUNTY INC: $326k → 8%IREDELL COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $1.2M → 9%PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC (MOORE COUNTY): $802k → 10%CALDWELL COUNTY SMART START A PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: $870k → 16%CHILDREN & YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOR DARE COUNTY INC: $323k → 8%IREDELL COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $1.2M → 9%PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC (MOORE COUNTY): $791k → 10%CALDWELL COUNTY SMART START A PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: $867k → 16%CHILDREN & YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOR DARE COUNTY INC: $292k → 8%IREDELL COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $1.2M → 9%PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC (MOORE COUNTY): $785k → 10%CALDWELL COUNTY SMART START A PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: $866k → 16%CHILDREN & YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOR DARE COUNTY INC: $283k → 8%IREDELL COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $1.2M → 9%PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC (MOORE COUNTY): $784k → 10%CALDWELL COUNTY SMART START A PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: $859k → 16%CHILDREN & YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOR DARE COUNTY INC: $277k → 8%IREDELL COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $997k → 9%PARTNERS FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC (MOORE COUNTY): $761k → 10%CALDWELL COUNTY SMART START A PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN: $840k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$959M · 79 repeat orgs$546k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

79 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
19

Total granted

$959M
$546k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

97%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther

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

  • WC
    WAKE COUNTY SMART START INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $72M · revenue +39% · 39% of their budget
  • MP
    MECKLENBURG PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $63M · revenue +311% · 95% of their budget
  • DP
    DURHAM'S PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $48M · revenue +28% · 48% of their budget

Funded once

  • VG
    VARIOUS GRANTS
    one grant, 2024 · $269k
  • CH
    Coastal Horizons Center Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $55k · revenue +18%
  • TH
    THE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $42k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc

The north carolina partnership for children (ncpc) is the lead organization and backbone of the smart start network, setting statewide vision, policy, and funding priorities. while local partnerships translate the statewide vision into…

Education
2
North Carolina Early Education Coalition

Act as an organization to provide education, information distribution, training, newsletters, fact sheets, and other materials to educate communities about the importance of high quality childhood education, especially for infants and…

Education
3
Spartanburg County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

Education
4
South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees

Per south carolina code section 59-152-30: "the goals for south carolina first steps to school readiness are to: (1) provide parents with access to the support they might seek and want to strengthen their families and to promote the…

Education
5
Lancaster County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Section 59-152-10 of the south carolina code established the south carolina first steps to school readiness program, which is a comprehensive, results-oriented initiative for improving early childhood development by providing, through…

Education
6
Marion County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Per south carolina code of laws section 59-152-10: there is established the south carolina first steps to school readiness, a comprehensive, results- oriented initiative for improving early childhood development by providing, through local…

Education
7
Saluda County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Per south carolina code of laws section 59-152-10: there is established the south carolina first steps to school readiness, a comprehensive, results- oreiented initiative for improving early childhood development by providing, through…

Education
8
Colleton County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

—
9
Dorchester County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our vision is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

—
10
Cherokee County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Section 59-152-10 of the south carolina code established the south carolina first steps to school readiness program, which is a comprehensive, results-oriented initiative for improving early childhood development by providing, through…

Education
11
Families First in Cabarrus County

To provide parenting and early childhood programs that nurture children, empower parents, and strengthen whole families to flourish by significantly improving school readiness and economic mobility. We start early through home visiting,…

Human Services
12
Horry County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Our mission is that every south carolina child will arrive at kindergarten ready to succeed.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership for Children of the Foothills Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Dollywood Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr14%90%20–35yr12%6%35–55yr12%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr14%93%20–35yr12%7%35–55yr12%0%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/96
the rest of the field
15%
7,957/53,084

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.

04the grantee network

85 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. 85 of the 98 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.

69
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/85
Grantees still filing
64/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WAKE COUNTY SMART START INC — $72,058,661 · EducationWAKE COUNTY SMART START INCMECKLENBURG PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $63,096,860 · EducationMECKLENBURG PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDRENDURHAM'S PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $48,101,379 · EducationDURHAM'S PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDRENONSLOW COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $42,350,878 · EducationSMART START OF FORSYTH COUNTY — $39,736,431 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC — $36,926,257 · EducationGUILFORD COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC — $30,380,051 · Education+60 more — $496,183,033 · Education+60 moreTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION — $46,015,923 · OtherTHE DOLLY…FRANKLIN GRANVILLE VANCE SMART START INC — $12,487,389 · OtherFRANKLIN …EARLY YEARS INC — $11,668,105 · OtherEARLY YEA…VARIOUS OTHER ORGANIZATIONS — $4,776,331 · OtherVARIOUS O…THE CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF WATAUGA COUNTY INC — $4,503,333 · OtherTHE CHILD…+13 more — $372,637 · OtherWILSON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC — $11,881,336 · Human ServicesIREDELL COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $10,887,706 · Human ServicesCALDWELL COUNTY SMART START A PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN — $8,486,080 · Human ServicesPartners for Children & Families Inc — $7,439,041 · Human ServicesCHILDREN & YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOR DARE COUNTY INC — $2,896,936 · Human Services+1 more — $33,904 · Human ServicesCARTERET COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $6,112,680 · Youth DevelopmentTYRRELL-WASHINGTON PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC — $2,795,144 · Crime & LegalCoastal Horizons Center Inc — $55,166 · HealthTHE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $41,862 · HealthPINNACLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $41,500 · Community ImprovementVERNER INC — $530 · PhilanthropyFAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES RISING INC — $500 · Philanthropy
Education$828,833,550Other$79,823,718Human Services$41,625,003Youth Development$6,112,680Crime & Legal$2,795,144Health$97,028Community Improvement$41,500Philanthropy$1,030

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWAKE COUNTY SMART START INC — $72,058,661 over 9y, 39% of budgetMECKLENBURG PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $63,096,860 over 9y, 95% of budgetDURHAM'S PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $48,101,379 over 9y, 48% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION — $46,015,923 over 8y, 14% of budgetONSLOW COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $42,350,878 over 9y, 43% of budgetSMART START OF FORSYTH COUNTY — $39,736,431 over 9y, 50% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC — $36,926,257 over 9y, 34% of budgetGUILFORD COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC — $30,380,051 over 9y, 23% of budgetSMART START OF DAVIDSON COUNTY INC — $24,302,611 over 9y, 60% of budgetDOWN EAST PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $21,368,630 over 9y, 39% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF LINCOLN GASTON COUNTIES INC — $18,239,567 over 9y, 58% of budgetALBEMARLE ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC — $16,625,256 over 9y, 69% of budgetCABARRUS COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC — $16,177,839 over 9y, 40% of budgetBURKE COUNTY SMART START INC — $15,777,731 over 9y, 49% of budgetBUNCOMBE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC — $15,747,166 over 9y, 44% of budgetCATAWBA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $14,274,425 over 9y, 41% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF JOHNSTON COUNTY INC — $14,058,248 over 9y, 39% of budgetMARTIN PITT PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC — $13,942,042 over 9y, 83% of budgetLENOIR-GREENE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $13,801,095 over 9y, 48% of budgetSMART START ROWAN INC — $13,616,039 over 9y, 44% of budgetORANGE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN — $13,405,118 over 9y, 53% of budgetROBESON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $13,120,214 over 9y, 25% of budgetSMART START OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY — $12,595,873 over 9y, 85% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN — $12,231,406 over 9y, 39% of budgetWILSON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC — $11,881,336 over 9y, 59% of budgetEARLY YEARS INC — $11,668,105 over 5y, 27% of budgetSMART START PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDRE — $11,417,951 over 9y, 97% of budgetREGION A PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $10,959,653 over 9y, 29% of budgetIREDELL COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $10,887,706 over 9y, 32% of budgetCLEVELAND COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC — $10,118,487 over 9y, 20% of budgetDUPLIN COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $9,927,119 over 9y, 100% of budgetRANDOLPH COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC — $9,549,479 over 9y, 34% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF THE FOOTHILLS INC — $9,435,028 over 9y, 99% of budgetSAMPSON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $9,420,781 over 9y, 39% of budgetCRAVEN SMART START INC — $9,278,223 over 9y, 80% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES — $9,165,234 over 9y, 40% of budgetHARNETT COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC — $9,046,118 over 9y, 37% of budgetTHE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF WAYNE COUNTY INC — $8,493,206 over 9y, 22% of budgetCALDWELL COUNTY SMART START A PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN — $8,486,080 over 9y, 98% of budgetALAMANCE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC — $7,680,164 over 9y, 24% of budgetHOKE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $7,507,474 over 9y, 98% of budgetPartners for Children & Families Inc — $7,439,041 over 9y, 71% of budgetROCKINGHAM COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $7,156,110 over 9y, 34% of budgetSTANLY COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $6,611,345 over 9y, 29% of budgetRICHMOND COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC — $6,558,049 over 9y, 98% of budgetWILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $6,529,155 over 9y, 94% of budgetCHATHAM COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN — $6,402,889 over 9y, 20% of budgetSURRY COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD PARTNERSHIP — $6,315,768 over 9y, 36% of budget
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 WAKE COUNTY SMART START INC ↗
  • Who funds MECKLENBURG PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds DURHAM'S PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ONSLOW COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds SMART START OF FORSYTH COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds GUILFORD COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds SMART START OF DAVIDSON COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds DOWN EAST PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF LINCOLN GASTON COUNTIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ALBEMARLE ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CABARRUS COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds BURKE COUNTY SMART START INC ↗
  • Who funds BUNCOMBE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds CATAWBA COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF JOHNSTON COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MARTIN PITT PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds LENOIR-GREENE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds SMART START ROWAN INC ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds ROBESON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds SMART START OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds WILSON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds EARLY YEARS INC ↗
  • Who funds SMART START PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDRE ↗
  • Who funds REGION A PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds IREDELL COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds DUPLIN COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds RANDOLPH COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF THE FOOTHILLS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMPSON COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds CRAVEN SMART START INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds HARNETT COUNTY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CALDWELL COUNTY SMART START A PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUNG CHILDREN ↗

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.

Reach Out and Read IncEarly Years IncNorth Carolina Commun…Dogwood Health TrustFoundation for the Ca…The Cannon Foundation…Corning Incorporated …The Community Foundat…The Winston-Salem Fou…Triangle Community Fo…Blue Ridge Partnershi…Z Smith Reynolds Foun…
Reach Out and Read IncMA26.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Reach Out and Read Inc · Early Years Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Dogwood Health Trust · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Blue Ridge Partnership for Children · Z Smith Reynolds 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 Partnership for Children 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
74report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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How do I get to North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc?

Find your warmest path to North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 98 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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