How much did THE NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGES grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of THE NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGES’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

rockinghamstudent

2020

caldwell technicalmontgomerybladenfinancial studentsstanlyaidestablished

2021

gastonrockinghambenefitvance-granvillecontributionspurchase

2022

financial studentsgastontechnicalpromotingfaculty staffpiedmontactivities

2023

stanlytechnicalfinancialvance-granvillefacultyinstructionwelfare

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k15 grants · $119k
$10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$50k–250k8 grants · $885k

$8,500

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants

NC COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM$162,357
ISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE$111,000
NASH COMMUNITY COLLEGE$103,500
HALIFAX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$103,500
SOUTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE$103,500
MCDOWELL TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE$103,500
VANCE-GRANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT FUND$103,500
RAND CORPORATION$93,710
WILSON COMMUNITY COLLEGE$16,000
RICHMOND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$8,500
BEAUFORT COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$8,500
STANLY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$8,500
COLLEGE OF THE ALBEMARLE$8,500
ROWAN-CABARRUS COMMUNITY COLLEGE$8,000
CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE$8,000

02The need

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 (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 12%. 87% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.1M · 29 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.1M

$896k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%

+181%

Still filing today

59%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $256k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther

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

IC
ISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2020–2023 · $272k · revenue +500% · 63% of their budget
VC
VANCE-GRANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT FUND
4× · 2020–2023 · $266k · revenue +150%
SC
SURRY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
2× · 2020–2022 · $265k · revenue +502%

Funded once

BC
BRUNSWICK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +176%
LC
LENOIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue -6%
RC
ROBESON COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $52k · revenue +138%

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.

Cuyahoga Community College Foundation

The mission of the cuyahoga community college foundation is (continued on schedule o)to provide resources for advancing student success at cuyahoga community college and to transform the lives of those tri-c serves. our vision is to ensure…

Education

Snead State Community College Foundation

International

Calhoun College Foundation

The foundation's mission is to raise funds and provide scholarships to the students of calhoun community college.

Education

Coastal Carolina Community College

The college foundation is organized and exists to help support the purpose and objectives of coastal carolina community college and to provide financial and other support beyond that which can be obtained through normal sources. funds…

Education

Mclennan Community College Foundation

The mcc foundation's mission supports the development of funds for student scholarships, staff and faculty professional development, campus capital projects and student emergency needs.

Education

The North Carolina Community Colleges

The foundation supports the mission of the nc community college system

Education

Central Virginia Community College

To provide for scholarships, faculty & staff development and instructor equipment

Education

The Coffeyville Community College

Coffeyville community college foundation's primary purpose is to provide support to the coffeyville community college and its students, with grants and scholarships.

—

Sampson Community College Foundation

The foundation's mission is to fund educational programs of the college, promote the college, and provide scholarships to deserving students.

Education

Brookdale Community College Foundation Trust

The mission of the Foundation is to help students achieve their dream of earning a college degree. The Foundation solicits private funding from individuals, businesses, organizations, and private foundations to support and fund student…

Philanthropy

Clinton Community College Foundation

Granting student scholarships and contributions to college

Education

Manchester Community College

Mccf assists mcc in achieving its mission through support of programs, scholarships and equipment.

—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Fear Community College and the most unlike its peers is The Rand Corporation. 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 43 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/48

the rest of the field

13%

6,816/53,132

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.

05the grantee network

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

22/30

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$2,230,275Other$1,815,507Philanthropy$101,000Public Benefit$93,710

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.

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.

Charles a Cannon Trust No 1NC41.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charles a Cannon Trust No 1 · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Golden LEAF Inc · State Employees Credit Union Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · John M Belk Endowment · Educational Credit · The Winston-Salem Foundation · I Car Education Foundation · Patriot 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 organisation THE NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGES 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~20 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 581518223 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ISOTHERMAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 20 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 63% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The North Carolina Community Colleges?

Find your warmest path to The North Carolina Community Colleges through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGES

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The North Carolina Community Colleges?

More from the funding graph

THE NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY COLLEGES

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The North Carolina Community Colleges?

More from the funding graph