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Roanoke-Chowan Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$879k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$229k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$4.7MHousing & Shelter$298kCommunity Improvement$288kYouth Development$188kHuman Services$150kCrime & Legal$45kPublic Benefit$17kEmployment$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $817k
$81,700
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ECU HEALTH AND WELLNESS$229,486
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB FUTURE READY$187,862
GATES COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY$180,000
GATEWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$87,838
ECU HEALTH ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL$81,700
HERTFORD COUNTY OFFICE OF AGING$50,000
HERTFORD COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT$45,092
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ECU HEALTH ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL$6,655
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%GATES COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY: $180k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB FUTURE READY: $188k → 23%ROANOKE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $188k → 24%GATEWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $88k → 14%HERTFORD COUNTY OFFICE OF AGING: $75k → 23%ROANOKE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $100k → 24%GATES COUNTY SCHOOOLS: $81k → 14%HERTFORD COUNTY OFFICE OF AGING: $50k → 23%GATES COUNTY: $68k → 14%HERTFORD COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: $45k → 23%GATES COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY: $50k → 14%HERTFORD COUNTY OFFICE OF AGING: $25k → 23%GATES COUNTY: $10k → 14%TOWN OF MURFREESBORO: $17k → 23%VIDANT ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $704k → 23%ECU HEALTH AND WELLNESS: $519k → 23%ECU HEALTH AND WELLNESS: $354k → 23%VIDANT ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $337k → 23%ECU HEALTH ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $250k → 23%ECU HEALTH AND WELLNESS: $229k → 23%VIDANT ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $152k → 23%ROANOKE CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $150k → 23%VIDANT ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $149k → 23%VIDANT ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $139k → 23%ROANOKE CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $126k → 23%VIDANT ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $121k → 23%VIDANT ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $110k → 23%VIDANT ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $93k → 23%VIDANT ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $84k → 23%ECU HEALTH ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $82k → 23%ECU HEALTH ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $80k → 23%ROANOKE-CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENER: $72k → 23%ROANOKE-CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENER: $72k → 23%ROANOKE CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $72k → 23%ROANOKE CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $65k → 23%ECU HEALTH ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $64k → 23%ECU HEALTH ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $59k → 23%ECU HEALTH ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $55k → 23%ECU HEALTH ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $51k → 23%VIDANT ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $51k → 23%VIDANT ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $45k → 23%ROANOKE-CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $45k → 23%TOWN OF AHOSKIE: $42k → 23%ECU DENTAL CLINIC: $39k → 23%VIDANT ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $36k → 23%ROANOKE CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $25k → 23%VIDANT ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $13k → 23%ECU HEALTH ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $7k → 23%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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.2M · 8 repeat orgs$517k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$5.2M
$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+157%
+573%

Still filing today

25%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $321k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthReligionCommunity 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

  • VR
    VIDANT ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL
    4× · 2017–2022 · $2.0M
  • EH
    ECU HEALTH AND WELLNESS
    3× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M
  • EH
    ECU HEALTH ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $646k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $81k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $42k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $39k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
2/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VIDANT ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $2,041,686 · OtherVIDANT ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITALECU HEALTH AND WELLNESS: $1,102,652 · OtherECU HEALTH AND WELLNESSECU HEALTH ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITAL: $646,241 · OtherECU HEALTH ROANOKE-CHOWAN HOSPITALGATES COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY: $230,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB FUTURE READY: $187,862 · Other+12 more: $465,623 · Other+12 moreROANOKE CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $626,399 · HealthROANOKE CHOWAN…GATEWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $87,838 · HealthGATEWAY COMMUN…ROANOKE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $287,500 · Community ImprovementTHE GATHERING PLACE AHOSKIE: $3,750 · Religion
Other$4,674,064Health$714,237Community Improvement$287,500Religion$3,750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROANOKE CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $626,399 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetROANOKE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $287,500 over 2y, 24% of budgetGATEWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $87,838 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE AHOSKIE: $3,750 over 1y, 3.9% 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.

  • Who funds ROANOKE CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ROANOKE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE AHOSKIE ↗

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.

East Carolina HealthNC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Carolina Health · University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc

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 Roanoke-Chowan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roanoke-Chowan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Roanoke-Chowan Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 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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