· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SPCA OF WAKE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| STREET DOGS AND STRAY CATS INC | $5,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN FOR CATS | $4,000 |
| PULLEN MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TNTHE NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +162%
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
- SCST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +36%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds A PLACE AT THE TABLE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
- Who funds MY KIDS CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ANIMAL HEALTH AND WELFARE ↗
- Who funds Jamie Kirk Hahn Foundation ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization North State Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North State Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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