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Rocky Mount Community Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$240k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Community Improvement$861kHuman Services$196kEducation$172kHousing & Shelter$114kReligion$94kFood & Nutrition$67kRecreation & Sports$65kPhilanthropy$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCKY MOUNT COMMUNITY DEVELOP FDN$75,000
HARRISON FAMILY YMCA$25,000
LAKESIDE BAPTIST CHURCH$25,000
BUILDING SHALOM$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB TAR RIVER REGION$25,000
CITY OF REFUGE FOUNDATION INC$25,000
ROCKY MOUNT VFW POST 2057$25,000
ENGLEWOOD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$9,000
TAR RIVER CHORAL AND ORCHESTRAL$6,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%A TOUCH OF THE FATHER'S LOVE: $25k → 15%UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES: $25k → 15%A TOUCH OF THE FATHER'S LOVE INC: $10k → 15%PEACEMAKERS OF ROCKY MOUNT INC: $25k → 15%A TOUCH OF THE FATHER'S LOVE INC: $12k → 15%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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 13 repeat orgs$409k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
17

Total granted

$1.3M
$325k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+61%

Still filing today

69%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • THE CAROLINAS GATEWAY PARTNERSHIP INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $690k · revenue +2%
  • RM
    Rocky Mount Family YMCA Inc
    3× · 2019–2022 · $59k · revenue +21%
  • CO
    City of Refuge Foundation Inc
    3× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • NW
    NC WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • RC
    REDEEMER CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $35k
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
Wnc Lighthouse Inc

The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…

Human Services
2
Safe Harbor of Nc Inc

Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…

Health
3
Holy Rock Outreach Ministeries Inc

The mission of Holy Rock Outreach Ministries, Inc. is to provide a comprehensive social services approach that will promote renewed hope and restoration to a families in crisis.

—
4
Redemption Road Ministries

Redemption road provides housing, re-entry and transition services for men and women coming out of the criminal justice system. the mission is to provide to provide christ centered, bible based recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, damaged…

Religion
5
Welcome House Knoxville

Our Mission at Welcome House Knoxville is to share the love of Jesus through the ministries of hospitality and friendship. We provide safe and loving homes for individuals and families in transition to permanent housing.

Housing & Shelter
6
Solid Rock Ministries

Mission is to repair and upgrade homes to be healthy and usable

Housing & Shelter
7
Rose Rock Habitat for Humanity

The mission of rose rock habitat for humanity is to put god's love into action by bringing people together to build homes, community, and hope.

—
8
Refuge of Hope Ministries

Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.

Religion
9
Pardoned by Christ

To restore lives affected by incarceration. To reach out to people affected by incarceration, who will receive the love and provision that is found in Jesus Christ. To restore individuals and their families to our communities through…

Crime & Legal
10
Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte

The mission of Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte is repairing homes, revitalizing communities, rebuilding lives.We mobilize community volunteers and contractors to provide repairs that make homes safer and healthier for…

Housing & Shelter
11
Rising Hope United Methodist Church

Rising hope is built on the belief that everyone deserves access to a community of support, and the opportunity to grow beyond their circumstances to achieve their self-expressed outcomes in life. as part of this belief, one of rising…

—
12
Restoration House Wnc

The restoration house wnc seeks to provide a holistic approach to restoring life and hope to the outcasts and others in need of healing who come to us for help.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Peacemakers of Rocky Mount Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lighthouse Home. 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

13 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. 13 of the 34 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCKY MOUNT COMMUNITY DEVELOP FDN: $141,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNT COMMUNITY DEVELOP FDNNC WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherNC WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYNC WESLEYAN COLLEGE: $68,500 · OtherNC WESLEYAN COLLEGERocky Mount Family YMCA Inc: $58,900 · OtherRocky Mount Family YMCA IncROCKY MOUNT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNT COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONHARRISON FAMILY YMCA: $40,000 · OtherHARRISON FAMILY YMCAREDEEMER CHURCH: $35,000 · OtherMY SISTERS HOUSE INC: $30,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNT VFW POST 2057: $28,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB TAR RIVER REGION: $25,000 · OtherLAKESIDE BAPTIST CHURCH: $25,000 · Other+14 more: $143,500 · Other+14 moreTHE CAROLINAS GATEWAY PARTNERSHIP INC: $690,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CAROLINAS GATEWAY PARTNERSHIP INCA TOUCH OF THE FATHER'S LOVE INC: $47,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $42,000 · Human ServicesPEACEMAKERS OF ROCKY MOUNT INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOMES INCORPORATED: $47,350 · Housing & ShelterBUILDING SHALOM INCORPORATED: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterCity of Refuge Foundation Inc: $50,000 · EducationRIPE FOR REVIVAL: $20,000 · Food & NutritionLIGHTHOUSE HOME: $12,700 · Health
Other$735,400Community Improvement$690,000Human Services$114,000Housing & Shelter$72,350Education$50,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Health$12,700

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CAROLINAS GATEWAY PARTNERSHIP INC: $690,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetRocky Mount Family YMCA Inc: $58,900 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCity of Refuge Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOMES INCORPORATED: $47,350 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetA TOUCH OF THE FATHER'S LOVE INC: $47,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $42,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetMY SISTERS HOUSE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPEACEMAKERS OF ROCKY MOUNT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBUILDING SHALOM INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTAR RIVER CHORAL & ORCHESTRAL: $22,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetRIPE FOR REVIVAL: $20,000 over 2y, 17% 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 THE CAROLINAS GATEWAY PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds Rocky Mount Family YMCA Inc ↗
  • Who funds City of Refuge Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOMES INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds A TOUCH OF THE FATHER'S LOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds MY SISTERS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PEACEMAKERS OF ROCKY MOUNT INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING SHALOM INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds TAR RIVER CHORAL & ORCHESTRAL ↗
  • Who funds RIPE FOR REVIVAL ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE HOME ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN RENAISSANCE INC ↗

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.

Boddie Noell Foundation Attn Tax and Risk ManagementNC24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boddie Noell Foundation Attn Tax and Risk Management · Deleon Carter Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Mims Charitable Foundation Trust · Barnhill Family Foundation · Southern Bank Foundation · Nickolas Bunn Boddie Sr and Lucy Mayo Lucy Mayo Boddie Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Community Ministry Support Inc · United Way Tar River Region · Corning Incorporated Foundation · The Pfizer 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 Rocky Mount Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rocky Mount Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    8report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Rocky Mount Community Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Rocky Mount Community 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 34 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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