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The Country Club of North Carolina Foundation
The purpose of the foundation is allowing individuals who are members of the country club of north carolina inc as well as others to join together to provide charitable service and benevolent gifts to the community and beyond.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $130,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $181,684 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $51,184 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Adult and teen challenge | $45,000 |
| First Tee of the Sandhills | $20,000 |
| UNC - CH | $20,000 |
| Rise Up Moore | $10,500 |
| Western NC | $10,000 |
| Friend of Aberdeen Library | $10,000 |
| NC A & T University | $5,000 |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace | $5,000 |
| Friend to Friend | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of The Country Club of North Carolina Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 90% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SCSANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue -19%
- HFHV3 FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $35k · revenue -1%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL2× · 2023–2025 · $32k
Funded once
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- SASALVATION ARMY NATIONAL CORPone grant, 2024 · $25k
- AHASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $21k · revenue +53%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To impact the lives of young people of all backgrounds by providing learning facilities and educational programs that promote character development and life enhancing values through the game of golf.
To promote, preserve, and serve the game of junior golf
The cga is a non-profit service organization that was formed in 1909 to conduct championships and tournaments for amateur golfers in north and south carolina, administer the usga handicap system in the carolinas, and support its membership…
Provide temporary shelter and assistance to individuals and familes that are homeless in western north carolina.
Provides medical and emotional services to terminally ill patients in rutherford county, north carolina. starting in june, 2022 the organization focused on being a 501(c)3 charitable organization that provides direct support and empower…
To preserve, promote, and serve the game of golf
The carolinas golf foundation was formed by the carolinas golf association in 1977 to provide scholarships and funding for a variety of carolinas-based golf initiatives.
ACS develops and promote youth sports in the Sandhills region of North Carolina. Programs are open to youth who wish to participate
Establish necessary funding to create opportunities for youth through education and recreation as well as maintaining and expanding junior golf programs
To impact the lives of young people by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Club of the Sandhills Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Aberdeen Library Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
17 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. 17 of the 21 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE OF SANDHILLS NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds SANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HV3 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF NORTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds THE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Sandhills Youth Development Inc ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE SANDHILLS INC ↗
- Who funds RISEUPMOORE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIEND TO FRIEND ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Country Club of North Carolina Foundation 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.
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.
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