How much does North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc give?

North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc reported 77 grants totaling $126,408,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 77 and 88 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (95%), Human Services (4%), Youth Development (1%).

Who are North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wake County Smart Start Inc ($72M), Mecklenburg Partnership for Children ($63M), Durham's Partnership for Children ($48M).

Does North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Reach Out and Read Inc, Early Years Inc, North Carolina Community Foundation.

Where is North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc based?

North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc is based in NC.

North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc

North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

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

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$11M

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 2025.

Education$913MHuman Services$34MYouth Development$9.1MCrime & Legal$2.8MHealth$97kPhilanthropy$500

02FY2025 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$50k–250k4 grants · $761k
$250k+73 grants · $126M

$1,018,253

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

$959M · 79 repeat orgs$546k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$959M

$546k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther

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

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%

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.

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

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

Spartanburg County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

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

Education

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

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

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

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

Colleton County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

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

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Dorchester County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

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

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Cherokee County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

Education

Horry County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership

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

Education

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership for Children of the Foothills Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

85 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. 85 of the 98 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

85/85

Grantees still filing

64/85

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

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

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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

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

2025

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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

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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