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Novant Health Inc

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our cause.

$22M
Granted FY2024still arriving
77
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$16M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$123MPhilanthropy$3.2MHousing & Shelter$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.2MEducation$708kHuman Services$653kArts & Culture$330kFood & Nutrition$267kOther$0
02FY2024 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 77 grants below total $19,493,704 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $22,009,853 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,516,149 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $152k
  • $10k–50k47 grants · $831k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $445k
  • $250k+3 grants · $18M
$12,300
Median grant
6
States reached
$14.6B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$16,390,905
COASTAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$1,000,000
WINSTON-SALEM FOUNDATION$675,000
MECKLENBURG COUNTY$160,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$75,000
CAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HOUSE BUILD$60,000
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA$50,350
WINGATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
MATTHEWS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC$50,000
ROWAN COUNTY UNITED WAY INC$46,418
WILLIE STARGELL FOUNDATION INC$40,000
PARTNERS IN LEARNING CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER$30,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS$30,000
MARCH OF DIMES INC$30,000
MATTHEWS ALIVE INC$27,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $375k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%STAYING CONNECTED: $21k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS & ITS CONSTITUENT CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES: $10k → 14%PARTNERS IN LEARNING CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 15%PARTNERS IN LEARNING CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $22k → 15%COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT INITIATIVES INC: $8k → 12%CANCER SERVICES OF DAVIDSON COUNTY INC: $10k → 13%ACCESS OF WILMINGTON INC: $6k → 12%PARTNERS IN LEARNING CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $16k → 15%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA: $50k → 15%SOARING AS EAGLES INC: $15k → 12%FAITH FOURTH OF JULY COMMITTEE INC: $6k → 15%LOWER CAPE FEAR LIFECARE: $12k → 12%LOWER CAPE FEAR LIFECARE: $10k → 12%LOWER CAPE FEAR LIFECARE: $10k → 12%SERVANTS HEART OF MINT HILL INC: $20k → 10%SERVANTS HEART OF MINT HILL INC: $20k → 10%GENESIS BLOCK FOUNDATION INC: $8k → 12%SERVANTS HEART OF MINT HILL INC: $20k → 10%SERVANTS HEART OF MINT HILL INC: $15k → 10%YWCA OF THE LOWER CAPE FEAR INC: $15k → 12%YWCA OF THE LOWER CAPE FEAR INC: $9k → 12%YWCA OF THE LOWER CAPE FEAR INC: $8k → 12%SERVANTS HEART OF MINT HILL INC: $10k → 10%YWCA OF THE LOWER CAPE FEAR INC: $7k → 12%BRIGHT BLESSINGS: $6k → 10%BRIGHT BLESSINGS: $6k → 10%BALLANTYNE FAMILIES HELPING NEIGHBORS IN NEED: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
OH
CA
VA
NC
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX

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.

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$75M · 70 repeat orgs$53M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

70 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
59

Total granted

$75M
$51M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+10%

Still filing today

93%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $63M · revenue +0% · 28% of their budget
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $345k · revenue +43%
  • CF
    CAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $300k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • NH
    NEW HANOVER REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50M · revenue -2%
  • OC
    OPERA CAROLINA
    one grant, 2018 · $125k · revenue -67%
  • 1G
    101 Gardensgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $90k · revenue +132% · 38% of their budget

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.

1
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
2
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

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3
Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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4
North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc

To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.

Health
5
Carolina Community Care Inc

The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…

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6
Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health
7
Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce

The Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development

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8
North Carolina Business Group On Health Inc

To educate, advocate, and innovate for a better healthcare delivery system in nc.

Health
9
Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce

To build a thriving regional economy, enhance the community's quality of life, and strengthen member businesses.

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10
Rowan Economic Development Council

Promoting economic and industrial development in rowan county, north carolina

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11
Burke County Chamber of Commerce I Burke County Chamber of Commerce I

To promote and advance commerce in burke county, nc

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12
Carolina Common Enterprise

The specific objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be to assist individuals and communities, particularly those in low-income and socially disadvantaged areas, in the creation, expansion, and improvement of rural and…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Willie Stargell Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number29%7%<5yr18%4%5–10yr21%24%10–20yr13%26%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr9%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value29%1%<5yr18%0%5–10yr21%1%10–20yr13%39%20–35yr11%7%35–55yr9%52%55yr+

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/165
the rest of the field
17%
3,223/18,814

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.

04the grantee network

147 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. 147 of the 165 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
144/147
Grantees still filing
91/147
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $62,754,405 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC+15 more — $749,327 · EducationNEW HANOVER REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $50,000,000 · HealthNEW HANOVER REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INCROWAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $8,506,790 · HealthROWAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC+21 more — $980,418 · HealthThe Winston-Salem Foundation — $2,715,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $416,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $183,000 · PhilanthropyCHARLOTTE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP INC — $200,000 · OtherMECKLENBURG COUNTY — $160,000 · OtherCHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE — $125,000 · OtherDAVIDSON-DAVIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $90,000 · OtherOPERA CAROLINA — $125,000 · Other101 Gardens — $90,000 · Other+75 more — $1,787,451 · OtherCOASTAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementMINT HILL EVENTS INC — $123,300 · Community ImprovementROWAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $47,385 · Community Improvement+10 more — $204,633 · Community ImprovementServants Heart of Mint Hill Inc — $85,000 · Human ServicesROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES — $75,760 · Human ServicesPARTNERS IN LEARNING CHILD DEVELOP- MENT AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $67,600 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES OF DAVIDSON COUNTY — $61,500 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626) — $50,350 · Human ServicesYWCA of the Lower Cape Fear Inc — $38,000 · Human ServicesLower Cape Fear Hospice Incorporated dba Lower Cape Fear LifeCare — $31,046 · Human ServicesROWAN-CABARRUS YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $28,000 · Human ServicesSTAYING CONNECTED — $20,667 · Human Services+10 more — $89,500 · Human ServicesCAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $299,500 · Housing & ShelterGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc — $38,500 · Housing & ShelterHome Solutions of Davidson County NC Inc — $23,500 · Housing & Shelter+4 more — $31,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$63,503,732Health$59,487,208Philanthropy$3,314,000Other$2,577,451Community Improvement$1,375,318Human Services$547,423Housing & Shelter$392,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $62,754,405 over 4y, 28% of budgetROWAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $8,506,790 over 7y, 35% of budgetThe Winston-Salem Foundation — $2,715,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetCOASTAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $416,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $344,925 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $299,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetRenaissance West Community Initiative — $275,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP INC — $200,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE — $125,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOPERA CAROLINA — $125,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMINT HILL EVENTS INC — $123,300 over 7y, 28% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWINGATE UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN — $100,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWillie Stargell Foundation Inc — $100,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budget101 Gardens — $90,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetDAVIDSON-DAVIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $90,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetServants Heart of Mint Hill Inc — $85,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetROWAN HELPING MINISTRIES — $75,760 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBrunswick County Chamber of Commerce — $75,660 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC — $71,142 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN LEARNING CHILD DEVELOP- MENT AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $67,600 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDavidson College — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF DAVIDSON COUNTY — $61,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTOM A FINCH COMMUNITY YMCA INC — $61,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetDavidson Medical Ministries Clinic Inc — $60,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetEcho Foundation — $59,250 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetGREATER WILMINGTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $56,800 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMATTHEWS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $55,600 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMatthews Alive Inc — $54,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetMINT HILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $51,970 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina (4626) — $50,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPromise Youth Development Inc — $49,750 over 3y, 20% of budgetROWAN COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $47,385 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetTERRIE HESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $46,750 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetROWAN COUNTY UNITED WAY INC — $46,418 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON INC — $45,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetYoung Black Leadership Alliance — $45,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCommunity Building Initiative — $44,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $43,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BRUNSWICK COUN — $42,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF ROWAN — $42,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBallantyne Ball — $42,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP OF NORTH CAROLINA INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Free Clinic Inc — $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $38,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Leon Levine Found…Foundation for the Ca…New Hanover Community…The Presbyterian Hosp…The Landfall Foundati…Cape Fear Memorial Fo…The Cannon Foundation…United Way of the Cap…Duke Energy FoundationCorning Incorporated …Rowan Regional Medica…United Way of Greater…
The Leon Levine FoundationNC59.6× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Leon Levine Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · The Landfall Foundation Inc · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Rowan Regional Medical Center Inc · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc

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 Novant Health Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your 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
    50report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 165 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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