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NORTH CAROLINA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT ASSOC
The purposes of the association shall be to effectively utilize and maintain the natural and human resources available thereby improving the living and working conditions within each rc&d district council of north carolina and to coordinate the rc&d activities throughout nc and actively speak for the rc&d organizations throughout the…
$675k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants
1
Communities
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
0189% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2023.
Environment$1.4MOther$175k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2022
out rcandd
2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 9 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$366k
Total assets
Largest grants
- Albemarle RC&D$75,000
- Cape Fear RC&D$75,000
- Piedmont Conservation Council$75,000
- Southwestern RC&D$75,000
- Environmental Impact$75,000
- Blue Ridge RC&D$75,000
- Carolina Land & Lakes RC&D$75,000
- Pilot View$75,000
- Mountain Valleys RC&D$75,000
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 67% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
$1.6M · 9 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
9
0
Total granted
$1.6M
$0
Still filing today
100%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
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
- PVPilot View2× · 2022–2023 · $175k · revenue +42716% · 37% of their budget
- BRBlue Ridge RC&D2× · 2022–2023 · $175k · revenue +1054%
- SRSouthwestern RC&D2× · 2022–2023 · $175k · revenue +260%
Funded once
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.
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South Carolina Rural Water
To promote and assist the formation and operation of water supply to rural residents, towns and communities.
Environment
2
Coastal Carolina Riverwatch Inc
Coastal Carolina Riverwatch CCRW is a dedicated grassroots initiative shaped by the voices of coastal residents working collaboratively to safeguard clean water and vital marine ecosystems. This work is powered by the generosity of…
Animals
3
Chestatee-Chattahoochee Resource Conservation and Development Council Inc
To assist individuals and communities in utilizing and protecting our natural resources while improving the economy, environment and quality of life.
Environment
4
Southeast Tn Rc&D Council
Plan and develop resource conservation and development programs
Environment
5
New River Conservancy
To protect the water woodlands and wildlife of the New River Watershed.
Environment
6
Rowan Economic Development Council
Promoting economic and industrial development in rowan county, north carolina
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7
Rivers & Lands Conservancy
Rivers & Lands Conservancy connects our community to natural, wild, and open spaces of Southern California through land conservation, stewardship and education.
Environment
8
Save Our Saluda
To protect and restore the upper saluda watershed through education, community awareness, advocacy, and seeking solutions to threats to the saluda river and its tributaries
Environment
9
Conserving Carolina
To protect, restore, and inspire appreciation of the natural world.
Environment
10
Three Rivers Land Trust Inc
Protect and conserve land, natural areas, rural landscapes, family farms and historic places within north carolina's heartland
Environment
11
Partners for Environmental Justice
The organization's mission is working to advocate for the human and natural communities in southeast raleigh.
Environment
12
Carolina Raptor Center Inc
Environmental stewardship, education, research, and rehabilitation of injured birds of prey
Animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Ridge Resource Conserv and Devel and the most unlike its peers is Albemarle Resource Conservation and Development Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Environment$1,400,000Other$175,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation NORTH CAROLINA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT ASSOC 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 moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Albemarle RC&D.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 581742784 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Albemarle RC&D, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 84% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to North Carolina Resource Conservation & Development Assoc?
Find your warmest path to North Carolina Resource Conservation & Development Assoc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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