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North State Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| STREET DOGS AND STRAY CATS INC | $5,000 |
| SPCA OF WAKE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| PULLEN MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH | $4,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS | $4,000 |
| CHRISTIAN VETERINARY MISSION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| RUFF | $2,000 |
| SAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION | $1,000 |
| JOHNSTON COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TNTHE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +104%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +202%- SFSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- TTUCASIone grant, 2017 · $3k
- UCUNITED CHURCH OF CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2024 · $2k
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +86%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.
The nc state alumni association engages alumni and friends through programs and services that foster pride and enhance a lifelong connection to nc state university ("nc state").
Provide financial support for all types of education and research within the college of sciences at north carolina state university.
To aid and promote, by financial assistance and otherwise, educational, research, and extension in the college of engineering at north carolina state university
To promote education and research in the college of natural resources of north carolina state university as well as aid and promote, by financial assistance and otherwise, all types of education, research and extension in the college of…
To champion our zoo and its initiatives, wildlife and wild places, with an emphasis on the future.
The north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…
To provide financial support for all types of education and research in the field of veterinary medicine at north carolina state university.
The north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Coastal Federation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fred a Olds Elementary School Pta. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 41 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS - NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PINES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRED A OLDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTON COUNTY ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNDERWOOD GT MAGNET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN VETERINARY MISSION ↗
- Who funds JOHNSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds MY KIDS CLUB ↗
- Who funds A PLACE AT THE TABLE ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jamie Kirk Hahn Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ANIMAL HEALTH AND WELFARE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Robert P Holding Foundation Inc · A E Finley Foundation Inc · Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Bell Cook Family Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · Reynolds American Foundation
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 State Foundation 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.
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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