· Private foundation
Tri-County Telephone Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PUNGO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $14,189 |
| WILKINSON COMMUNITY EVENT CENTER | $12,000 |
| NORTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL | $10,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $3,700 |
| BEAUFORT-HYDE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| SAFE HARBOR HELPLINE | $2,500 |
| BELHAVENPANTEGO ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION CO FIRST BANK | $620 |
| WASHINGTONBEAUFORT COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| BEAUFORT COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES KIDS SAFETY EXPO | $350 |
| ASBURY METHODIST CHURCH | $75 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CPCOASTAL PREGNANCY CENTER4× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +172%
- PCPUNGO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY6× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +118%
- ODOpen Door Community Center5× · 2018–2023 · $23k · revenue +383%
Funded once
- OVOther Variousone grant, 2017 · $13k
- TCTERRA CEIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $11k
- BCBEAUFORT COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE SMALL BUSINESS CENTERone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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.
To promote and advance commerce in burke county, nc
Firefighting/Protection
Emergency services
Provide community healthcare services to the citizens in the low country of south carolina.
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
To build a vibrant community through programs of advocacy, public awareness and policy development.
To promote tourism and local businesses in brunswick county, north carolina
To advance the economic, industrial, agricultural, professional, cultural, and civic welfare of the community.
The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina
To provide low-cost housing for those in need in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
Empower the Outer Banks business community by promoting and developing economic prosperity.
The BCBCC is a membership organization dedicated to offering products, services, and educational programming for multi-cultural business owners and professionals within the Beaufort and neighboring communities. The individuals and…
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 96 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COASTAL PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PUNGO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WILKINSON COMMUNITY EVENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Open Door Community Center ↗
- Who funds Bath High School Preservation Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON-BEAUFORT COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds THE HISTORIC BATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLES WINGS CHRISTIAN LOVE IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds RUTHS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT HYDE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARION L SHEPARD CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Old Ford Volunteer Fire Department ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA COUNCIL BSA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Jonathan Havens Charitable Trust 4242 Six Forks Road · Beaufort County United Way Inc · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tri-County Telephone Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tri-County Telephone Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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