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Pee Dee Electric Membership Corp

Safe and effective distribution of electricity to the members of pdemc

$103k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$43k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$180M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Pee Dee Electric Membership Corp funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’24
Public Safety & DisasterHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$43k50%
FY20249$68k22%
FY20229$67k11%
FY20217$52k71%
FY20208$60k25%
FY20196$45k83%
FY201812$88k58%
FY20177$51kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Safety & Disaster$328kHealth$15kPublic Benefit$15kRecreation & Sports$15kAnimals$8kYouth Development$8kArts & Culture$8kHuman Services$7kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
East Rockingham Fire Department Inc$37,50054%
Laurel Hill Fire Department Inc$30,000410%
Hoffman Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc$30,00046%
Richmond County Rescue Squad$30,000418%
Lilesville Fd$29,1124n/a
City of Hamlet Fire Department$22,5003n/a
Hamlet Rescue & Emergency Medical$22,50032%
Mountain Creek Fire Department Inc$15,00029%
Northside Volunteer Fire Dept Inc$15,00022%
West End Fire & Rescue Inc$15,00021%
Show all 26 grantees
All grantees of Pee Dee Electric Membership Corp by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
East Rockingham Fire Department Inc$37,50054%
Laurel Hill Fire Department Inc$30,000410%
Hoffman Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc$30,00046%
Richmond County Rescue Squad$30,000418%
Lilesville Fd$29,1124n/a
City of Hamlet Fire Department$22,5003n/a
Hamlet Rescue & Emergency Medical$22,50032%
Mountain Creek Fire Department Inc$15,00029%
Northside Volunteer Fire Dept Inc$15,00022%
West End Fire & Rescue Inc$15,00021%
Town of Wadesboro$15,0002n/a
Candor Vol Fd$15,0002n/a
Ellerbe Rescue Squad$15,000214%
Beaver Lane Volunteer Rescue & Fire Department$14,55021%
Pekin Volunteer Fire Department$14,4002n/a
Ellerbe Fire Department$13,7002n/a
Allen's Crossroads Vfd$7,50013%
New Salem Volunteer Fire Dept Inc$7,5001n/a
Gulledge Volunteer Fire Department$7,50013%
Peachland Fire District$7,5001n/a
Cordova Fire and Rescue Inc$7,50014%
Seven Laks Fire Rescue & EMS$7,5001n/a
Gibson Southwest District Fire Department$7,50017%
Richmond County Fire & Rescue Chiefs Association Inc$7,5001n/a
Aquadale Rural Volunteer Fire Department Inc$7,5001n/a
Lanes Creek Volunteer Fire Department Inc$7,50013%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($65k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pee Dee Electric Membership Corp supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEast Rockingham Fire Department Inc: $37,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetLaurel Hill Fire Department Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetHoffman Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetRichmond County Rescue Squad: $30,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetHamlet Rescue & Emergency Medical: $22,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMountain Creek Fire Department Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetNorthside Volunteer Fire Dept Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWest End Fire & Rescue Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEllerbe Rescue Squad: $15,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetBeaver Lane Volunteer Rescue & Fire Department: $14,550 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAllen's Crossroads Vfd: $7,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGulledge Volunteer Fire Department: $7,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCordova Fire and Rescue Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetGibson Southwest District Fire Department: $7,500 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetLanes Creek Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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.

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How do I get to Pee Dee Electric Membership Corp?

Find your warmest path to Pee Dee Electric Membership Corp 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.

About Pee Dee Electric Membership Corp

How much does Pee Dee Electric Membership Corp give?
Pee Dee Electric Membership Corp reported 6 itemized grants totaling $43,209, out of $102,554 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Pee Dee Electric Membership Corp fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (76%), Health (3%), Public Benefit (3%).
Who are Pee Dee Electric Membership Corp's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: East Rockingham Fire Department Inc ($38k), Laurel Hill Fire Department Inc ($30k), Hoffman Fire Department & Rescue Squad Inc ($30k).
Does Pee Dee Electric Membership Corp fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pee Dee Electric Membership Corp?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation.
Where is Pee Dee Electric Membership Corp based?
Pee Dee Electric Membership Corp is based in NC.

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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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