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Pee Dee Electric Membership Corp

Safe and effective distribution of electricity to the members of pdemc

$147k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Public Safety & Disaster$328kHealth$15kPublic Benefit$15kRecreation & Sports$15kAnimals$8kYouth Development$8kArts & Culture$8kHuman Services$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 9 grants below total $67,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $147,231 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $79,731 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.

$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$173M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEKIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$7,500
EAST ROCKINGHAM FIRE DEPARTMENT$7,500
CITY OF HAMLET FIRE DEPARTMENT$7,500
HAMLET RESCUE AND EMS$7,500
RICHMOND COUNTY CHEIFS ASSOCIATION$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
RICHMOND COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD$7,500
GIBSON SOUTHWEST DISTRICT FIRE DPT$7,500
HOFFMAN FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD$7,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LANES CREEK VFD: $8k → 7%WEST END FIRE & RESCUE: $8k → 10%Aquadale Fire Dept: $8k → 13%PEKIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $8k → 16%WADESBORO FIRE DEPARTMENT: $8k → 22%MOUNTAIN CREEK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $8k → 23%LAUREL HILL FIRE DEPT: $8k → 24%RICHMOND COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD: $8k → 5%BEAVER LANE VOL RESCUE & FD: $8k → 7%West End Fire and Rescue: $8k → 10%AQUADALE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $8k → 13%Anson Rescue Squad: $8k → 22%ELLERBE RESCUE SQUAD: $8k → 23%LAUREL HILL FD: $8k → 24%WEST END FIRE & RESCUE: $8k → 10%CANDOR VFD: $8k → 16%WADESBORO FIRE DEPT: $8k → 22%DERBY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $8k → 23%GIBSON SOUTHWEST DISTRICT FIRE DPT: $8k → 24%ALLEN CROSSROADS FIRE DEPARTMENT: $8k → 7%SEVEN LAKS FIRE RESCUE & EMS: $8k → 10%CANDOR VOL FD: $8k → 16%MOUNTAIN CREEK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $8k → 23%LILESVILLE FD: $8k → 22%ELLERBE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $8k → 23%ELLERBE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $8k → 23%ELLERBE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $8k → 23%PEACHLAND FIRE DISTRICT: $8k → 22%ELLERBE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $8k → 23%HOFFMAN FIRE DEPT AND RESCUE SQUAD: $8k → 23%HOFFMAN FD: $8k → 23%HOFFMAN FD: $8k → 23%HOFFMAN FIRE & RESCUE: $8k → 23%HAMLET RESCUE & EMS: $8k → 23%HAMLET RESCUE AND EMS: $8k → 23%Hamlet Rescue EMS: $8k → 23%HAMLET RESCUE & EMS: $8k → 23%City of Hamlet Fire Dept: $8k → 23%CITY OF HAMLET FD: $8k → 23%CITY OF HAMLET FD: $8k → 23%CORDOVA FIRE AND RESCUE: $8k → 23%CITY OF HAMLET FIRE DEPARTMENT: $8k → 23%EAST ROCKINGHAM FIRE DEPARTMENT: $8k → 23%Codova Fire and Rescue: $8k → 23%EAST ROCKINGHAM FIRE DEPT: $8k → 23%RICHMOND CO RESCUE SQUAD: $8k → 23%RICHMOND COUNTY CHEIFS ASSOCIATION: $8k → 23%RICHMOND COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD: $8k → 23%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.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$342k · 17 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

$342k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+69%

Still filing today

53%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Public Safety & DisasterHealthOther

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

  • ER
    EAST ROCKINGHAM FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +101%
  • HF
    HOFFMAN FIRE DEPARTMENT & RESCUE SQUAD INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +16%
  • LH
    LAUREL HILL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $23k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • DV
    DERBY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT
    one grant, 2021 · $8k
  • SL
    SEVEN LAKS FIRE RESCUE & EMS
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
  • NS
    New Salem Volunteer Fire Dept Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +181%

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
Littleton Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Provide fire and rescue services to the citizens of our fire district

Public Safety & Disaster
2
North Metcalfe Volunteer FIre Department

Services to the Public with Fire Protection and Rescue

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Town of Unionville Volunteer Fire

Fire protection for the residents of unionville nc

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Nelsonville Volunteer Fire Dept
Arts & Culture
5
Greenwood Volunteer Fire Department

Fire and rescue services

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Rheasville Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer fire department

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7
Floyd Community Volunteer Firedepartment Incorporated

Non Profit Volunteer Fire Department

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Valley View Volunteer Fire Department

Volunteer Fire Department that responds to service calls to extinguish fires or help with medical emergencies in the area.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Stickleyville Volunteer Fire Dept

Fire department for the local community of stickleyville, va

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Hickory Tree Volunteer Fire Dept

Volunteer Fire Department Emergency Fire and Rescue Services

Public Safety & Disaster
11
New Mountain Volunteer Fire Departm

Rural fire prevention and control

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Cross Creek Volunteer Fire Dept Inc

Provide fire protection, medical response, and brush fire to the communities of island grove and cross creek of florida

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northside Volunteer Fire Dept Inc and the most unlike its peers is Richmond County Rescue Squad. 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

16 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. 16 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EAST ROCKINGHAM FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $37,500 · OtherEAST ROCKINGHAM FIRE DEPARTMENT INCRICHMOND COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD — $30,000 · OtherRICHMOND COUNTY RESCUE SQUADLILESVILLE FD — $29,112 · OtherLILESVILLE FDCITY OF HAMLET FIRE DEPARTMENT — $22,500 · OtherCITY OF HAMLET FIRE DEPARTMENTLAUREL HILL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $22,500 · OtherLAUREL HILL FIRE DEPARTMENT INCCANDOR VOL FD — $15,000 · OtherELLERBE RESCUE SQUAD — $15,000 · OtherTOWN OF WADESBORO — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherBEAVER LANE VOLUNTEER RESCUE & FIRE DEPARTMENT — $14,550 · OtherPEKIN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $14,400 · OtherELLERBE FIRE DEPARTMENT — $13,700 · Other+7 more — $51,613 · Other+7 moreNORTHSIDE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC — $15,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNORTHSIDE VOLUNTEER F…MOUNTAIN CREEK FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $15,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMOUNTAIN CREEK FIRE D…WEST END FIRE & RESCUE INC — $15,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWEST END FIRE & RESCU…New Salem Volunteer Fire Dept Inc — $7,500 · Public Safety & DisasterNew Salem Volunteer F…GIBSON SOUTHWEST DISTRICT FIRE DEPARTMENT — $7,500 · Public Safety & DisasterGIBSON SOUTHWEST DIST…LANES CREEK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $7,500 · Public Safety & DisasterLANES CREEK VOLUNTEER…ALLEN'S CROSSROADS VFD — $7,500 · Public Safety & DisasterALLEN'S CROSSROADS VF…AQUADALE RURAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $7,500 · Public Safety & DisasterAQUADALE RURAL VOLUNT…HOFFMAN FIRE DEPARTMENT & RESCUE SQUAD INC — $30,000 · HealthHOFFMAN FIRE …HAMLET RESCUE & EMERGENCY MEDICAL — $22,500 · HealthHAMLET RESCUE…
Other$295,875Public Safety & Disaster$82,500Health$52,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEAST ROCKINGHAM FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $37,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetRICHMOND COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD — $30,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetHOFFMAN FIRE DEPARTMENT & RESCUE SQUAD INC — $30,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetLAUREL HILL FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $22,500 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetHAMLET RESCUE & EMERGENCY MEDICAL — $22,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetELLERBE RESCUE SQUAD — $15,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetNORTHSIDE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC — $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN CREEK FIRE DEPARTMENT INC — $15,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetWEST END FIRE & RESCUE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBEAVER LANE VOLUNTEER RESCUE & FIRE DEPARTMENT — $14,550 over 2y, 0.9% 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 budgetALLEN'S CROSSROADS VFD — $7,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCORDOVA FIRE AND RESCUE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 3.6% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Duke Energy Foundation
Duke Energy FoundationNC11.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy 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 Pee Dee Electric Membership Corp 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%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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 29 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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