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North Carolina Resource Conservation & Development Assoc at a glance

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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…

$900k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Environment$2.5M
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$111k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNTAIN VALLEYS RC&D$100,000
ALBEMARLE RC&D$100,000
BLUE RIDGE RC&D$100,000
CAPE FEAR RC&D$100,000
SOUTHWESTERN RC&D$100,000
CAROLINA LAND & LAKES RC&D$100,000
PIEDMONT CONSERVATION COUNCIL$100,000
PILOT VIEW$100,000
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT$100,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CAPE FEAR RC&D: $100k → 11%PIEDMONT CONSERVATION COUNCIL: $100k → 11%SOUTHWESTERN RC&D: $100k → 12%ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT: $100k → 15%Mountain Valleys RC&D: $100k → 15%BLUE RIDGE RC&D: $100k → 16%CAROLINA LAND & LAKES RC&D: $100k → 16%ALBEMARLE RC&D: $100k → 16%Cape Fear RC&D: $100k → 11%Piedmont Conservation Council: $100k → 11%Southwestern RC&D: $100k → 12%Environmental Impact: $100k → 15%MOUNTAIN VALLEYS RC&D: $100k → 15%Blue Ridge RC&D: $100k → 16%Carolina Land and Lakes RC&D: $100k → 16%Albemarle RC&D: $100k → 16%Cape Fear RC&D: $75k → 11%Piedmont Conservation Council: $75k → 11%Southwestern RC&D: $75k → 12%Pilot View: $100k → 15%Mountain Valleys RC&D: $75k → 15%Blue Ridge RC&D: $75k → 16%Carolina Land & Lakes RC&D: $75k → 16%Albemarle RC&D: $75k → 16%PILOT VIEW: $100k → 15%Environmental Impact: $75k → 15%Pilot View: $75k → 15%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of North Carolina Resource Conservation & Development Assoc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 0%.

North Carolina Resource Conservation & Development Assoclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$2.5M · 9 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
0

Total granted

$2.5M
$0

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • EI
    Environmental Impact RC&D Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $275k · revenue ×549 · 98% of their budget
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE RESOURCE CONSERV AND DEVEL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $275k · revenue +165%
  • SN
    SOUTHWESTERN N CAROLINA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEV COUNCIL INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $275k · revenue +260%

Funded once

    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.

    1
    Conserving Carolina

    To protect, restore, and inspire appreciation of the natural world.

    Environment
    2
    Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development Council

    The conserving of natural resources and improving rural economies through leadership and education.

    Environment
    3
    Western Maryland Resource Conservation and Development

    The Western Maryland Resource Conservation and Development Councils WMRC&D mission is to build and sustain resource conservation programs which raise the quality of social economic and environmental development in our region.

    Environment
    4
    Naturaland Trust

    Performing activities pursuant to the maintenance and preservation of natural areas for the benefit of the public

    Environment
    5
    Tar River Land Conservancy

    Tar river land conservancy preserves the natural and cultural resources of the tar river basin and surrounding areas by working in partnership with private landowners, public agencies and others to protect rural land, riparian corridors…

    Environment
    6
    New River Conservancy

    To protect the water woodlands and wildlife of the New River Watershed.

    Environment
    7
    Ridgeview Conservancy
    Environment
    8
    New Jersey Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership

    The New Jersey Corporate Wetlands Restoration Partnership Inc. NJCWRP facilitates public and private partnerships for the restoration and preservation of ecosystems in New Jersey and surrounding areas. The NJCWRP also educates the public…

    Human Services
    9
    North Carolina Coastal Land Trust

    The organization's primary exempt purpose is acquiring and protecting lands of regional and national conservation and/or historic significance in the coastal plain of north carolina.

    Environment
    10
    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
    11
    New Sandy River and Rangeley Lake Railroad
    Arts & Culture
    12
    Boulder Watershed Collective

    The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

    Environment
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Ridge Resource Conserv and Devel; the most unlike its peers is Piedmont Conservation Council Inc. 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 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.

    Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

    6
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    5
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    9/9
    Grantees still filing
    6/9
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    PILOT VIEW RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $275,000 · EnvironmentPILOT VIEW RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT INCBLUE RIDGE RESOURCE CONSERV AND DEVEL: $275,000 · EnvironmentBLUE RIDGE RESOURCE CONSERV AND DEVELSOUTHWESTERN N CAROLINA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEV COUNCIL INC: $275,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHWESTERN N CAROLINA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEV COUNCIL INCMountain Valleys Resource Conservation & Development Council: $275,000 · EnvironmentMountain Valleys Resource Conservation & Development CouncilAlbemarle Resource Conservation and Development Council: $275,000 · EnvironmentAlbemarle Resource Conservation and Development CouncilPIEDMONT CONSERVATION COUNCIL INC: $275,000 · EnvironmentPIEDMONT CONSERVATION COUNCIL INCCape Fear RC&D Inc: $275,000 · EnvironmentCape Fear RC&D IncCarolina Land & Lakes RC-D Inc: $275,000 · EnvironmentCarolina Land & Lakes RC-D IncEnvironmental Impact RC&D Inc: $275,000 · OtherEnvironmenta…
    Environment$2,200,000Other$275,000

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

    25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEnvironmental Impact RC&D Inc: $275,000 over 3y, 98% of budgetPILOT VIEW RESOURCE CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT INC: $275,000 over 3y, 37% of budgetBLUE RIDGE RESOURCE CONSERV AND DEVEL: $275,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN N CAROLINA RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEV COUNCIL INC: $275,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetMountain Valleys Resource Conservation & Development Council: $275,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetAlbemarle Resource Conservation and Development Council: $275,000 over 3y, 84% of budgetPIEDMONT CONSERVATION COUNCIL INC: $275,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetCape Fear RC&D Inc: $275,000 over 3y, 62% of budgetCarolina Land & Lakes RC-D Inc: $275,000 over 3y, 77% 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.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization North Carolina Resource Conservation & Development Assoc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Carolina Resource Conservation & Development Assoc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      3report 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.
      05Through Plinth

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      How do I get to North Carolina Resource Conservation & Development Assoc?

      Find your warmest path to North Carolina Resource Conservation & Development Assoc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

      Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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