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Nucor Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Nucor Charitable 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.

$5.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$5.5MEducation$4.2MPublic Benefit$2.1MHuman Services$1.8MCrime & Legal$1.0MArts & Culture$760kPhilanthropy$570kScience & Tech$525kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $508k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+7 grants · $3.1M
$40,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARMECK FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER$1,000,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$505,000
GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM MEMORIAL$500,000
AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER$350,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$250,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$250,000
MOTHER EMANUEL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$250,000
THE HEADSTRONG PROJECT$200,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$200,000
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND$150,000
CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$125,000
NOURISH UP$100,000
RENAISSANCE WEST COMMUNITY INITIATIVE$100,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHARLOTTE$100,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF METROLINA$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $915k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING INC: $75k → 10%CHAIR FORCE 1: $60k → 16%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $50k → 17%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $150k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100k → 14%SAFE ALLIANCE INC: $50k → 10%SAFE ALLIANCE INC: $50k → 10%THE RELATIVES: $15k → 10%THE RELATIVES: $15k → 10%NOURISH UP: $100k → 10%APPLESAUSE GROUP: $10k → 10%TRIPS FOR KIDS CHARLOTTE: $70k → 10%ALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $15k → 10%THE RELATIVES INC: $5k → 10%LOAVES & FISHES: $50k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 35 repeat orgs$6.5M to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
24

Total granted

$12M
$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+17%

Still filing today

83%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +25%
  • CM
    CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURAL AND SERVICE CENTER INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $650k · revenue +35%
  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $475k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • MT
    MONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue -4%
  • CM
    CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -78%
  • DP
    DISCOVERY PLACE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue +17%
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
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
2
The Carolina Trust
Philanthropy
3
Charlotte Center City Partners

Charlotte center city partners (cccp) boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure charlotte center city is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich and beloved place for all.

—
4
North Carolina Community Foundation

The nccf is the single statewide community foundation serving north carolina and was created in 1988 to build capacity through philanthropy. the nccf administers over 1,300 component funds established to provide long-term support of a…

Philanthropy
5
Presbyterian Hospital Foundation

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…

Health
6
Charlotte Neuroscience Foundation Dba Memory and Movement Charlotte

To impact the lives of individuals living with cognitive impairment and movement disorders as well as those who care for them, to provide patients with specialized medical care through an in-depth assessment of the medical, safety and…

Health
7
Nami - Charlotte Pka Alliance for the Mentally Ill

Guided by the experiences of those living with mental health conditions and rooted in equity, NAMI Charlotte provides advocacy, education, support and connections to resources so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness…

—
8
Rex Hospital Inc

To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Health
9
Reemprise Fund

Reemprise Fund is a venture philanthropy organization that invests in emerging nonprofit leaders and early-stage organizations serving historically marginalized communities in Charlotte, North Carolina. The organization builds…

Philanthropy
10
The Presbyterian Hospital

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…

Health
11
Charlotte Is Creative

Charlotte Is Creative develops programs and initiatives designed to break the Charlotte mold and remake it with creativity into a city that draws people in, excites them, and inspires them to invest their financial, social and creative…

Arts & Culture
12
Feeding Charlotte Inc

Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 82 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
28/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $3,040,000 · HealthCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSIONAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,700,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association IncAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $292,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $200,000 · Health+6 more: $108,000 · HealthMONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · EducationMONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL U…CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG L…CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · EducationCENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUN…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $250,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FU…+8 more: $278,000 · Education+8 moreGLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM MEMORIAL: $2,000,000 · OtherGLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM MEMORIALTHE SALVATION ARMY: $1,015,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYMOTHER EMANUEL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherMOTHER EMANUEL MEMORIAL FOUNDATI…+39 more: $2,048,500 · Other+39 moreCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURAL AND SERVICE CENTER INC: $650,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY PLACE INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $500,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $475,000 · PhilanthropyAIST Foundation: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC: $70,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCharmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Alliance: $1,000,000 · Crime & LegalAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $350,000 · Human ServicesNourish Up: $150,000 · Human ServicesSafe Alliance Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesCharlotte Family Housing: $75,000 · Human ServicesTRIPS FOR KIDS CHARLOTTE: $69,800 · Human ServicesCHAIR FORCE 1: $60,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE RELATIVES INC: $35,000 · Human Services+2 more: $25,000 · Human Services
Health$5,340,500Education$4,028,000Other$5,563,500Arts & Culture$1,150,000Philanthropy$1,150,000Crime & Legal$1,000,000Human Services$914,800

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $3,040,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMONTANA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,700,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCharmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Alliance: $1,000,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURAL AND SERVICE CENTER INC: $650,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOTHER EMANUEL MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetDISCOVERY PLACE INC: $500,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $475,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $350,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $292,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: $200,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNourish Up: $150,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAIST Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Alliance Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ORIGINAL SIX FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetBounty & Soul: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRenaissance West Community Initiative: $100,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSouthPark Community Foundation Inc: $85,000 over 1y, 81% of budgetCharlotte Family Housing: $75,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetProject Scientist Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRIPS FOR KIDS CHARLOTTE: $69,800 over 1y, 15% of budgetGreater Matthews Habitat for Humanity Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCHAIR FORCE 1: $60,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS: $60,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetCatawba Lands Conservancy: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJunior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetYoung Black Leadership Alliance: $50,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSHARE Charlotte: $45,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $41,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RELATIVES INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC: $33,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDigi-Bridge: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS BRIDGE HOME INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMITCHELL'S HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHeart Math Tutoring Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budget5050 WOMEN ON BOARDS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% 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.

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.

Foundation for the Ca…Albemarle FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Duke Energy FoundationThe Presbyterian Hosp…The Leon Levine Found…Foundation for the Ch…The Cannon Foundation…Merancas Foundation I…Ally Charitable Found…Truist Foundation IncCharlotte Woman's Clu…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC48.8× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Albemarle Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · The Leon Levine Foundation · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc · Ally Charitable Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nucor Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nucor Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 82 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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