· Public charity
University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc
The purpose of the university health systems of eastern carolina foundation (dba ecu health foundation), a non-profit corporation, is to give hope to eastern north carolina and beyond by inspiring philanthropy to improve health, education, and well-being.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 35 grants below total $3,380,940 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,765,869 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $384,929 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $264k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $848k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ECU HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER | $1,846,867 |
| ECU HEALTH | $352,223 |
| BEAUFORT COUNTY EMS | $196,800 |
| ECU MEDICAL & HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION | $187,500 |
| PITT COUNTY GOVERNMENT | $147,400 |
| ACCESS EAST INC | $109,000 |
| PITT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING | $78,000 |
| EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY | $77,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COASTAL PLAINS | $51,500 |
| GREENVILLE COMMUNITY SHELTERS INC | $40,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA | $30,000 |
| CARENET COUNSELING EAST | $23,000 |
| NC MEDASSIST | $22,000 |
| SAFE COMMUNITIES COALITION OF PITT COUNTY | $16,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE ALBEMARLE | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $415k 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
- PCPitt County Memorial Hospital Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $20M · revenue +66%
- AEAccess East Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +46%
- UHUniversity Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $892k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2021 · $133k · revenue -81%
- RCROANOKE CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +133%
- COCOUNTY OF DUPLINone grant, 2017 · $41k
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 improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.
Restoring Hope Center, Inc. is a benovolence organization operating in Laurinburg, NC. The organization has benevolence programs providing food and supplies to the local area, supplies other smaller like-kind organizations, conducts a…
Developing and connecting resources to assist and advocate for those impacted by eating disorders.
Providing primary health care and professional counseling services to all indviduals who need it.
Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…
To provide for the basic medical and dental needs of the working poor of Rockingham County through volunteer medical professionals.
The Abuse Prevention Council provides emergency, advocacy, counseling, education and specialized services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and homeless individuals and families.
To assess, assure and evaluate comprehensive support for people living with hiv/aids associated conditions, their caregivers and communities at large. to promote compassionate, nonjudgemental care, prevention, education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Ucp North Carolina & Virginia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kaye Lees Corner Fountation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 118 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.
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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: East Carolina Health · North Carolina Community Foundation · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · James J & Mamie Richardson Perkins Memorial Fund - C/O Bank of America · Southern Bank Foundation · The Golden Leaf Inc · Mildred Sheffield Wells Char Trust · Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc · Tr Uw Vivian S West - West Memorial Fund · Foundation for the Carolinas · W Russell and Patricia Davis Duke Foundation Inc
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 University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc 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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