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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.

$4.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$29MFood & Nutrition$840kYouth Development$830kHousing & Shelter$432kHuman Services$302kEducation$285kPublic Safety & Disaster$187kReligion$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 43 grants below total $3,665,302, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,057,062 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $391,760 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $110k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $323k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $900k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.3M
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$68M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ECU HEALTH MED CTR$2,068,439
ECU HEALTH$263,478
ECU MED & HEALTH FDN$206,250
E CAROLINA UNIV$188,965
ECU HEALTH PHYSICIANS$125,000
ACCESS EAST INC$115,000
PITT COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT$85,000
PITT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING$78,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COASTAL PLAINS$51,750
PITT COUNTY GOVERNMENT$50,000
GREENVILLE COMMUNITY SHELTERS INC$40,000
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA$35,000
CARENET COUNSELING EAST$25,500
SHEPHERD'S HELPERS$25,000
NC COOPERATIVE EXT SVCS - PITT COUNTY$21,500
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 (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Interfaith Community Outreach: $30k → 8%Nc Medassist: $15k → 10%Albermarle Development Corporation: $18k → 13%NC MedAssist: $50k → 10%NC MedAssist: $25k → 10%NC MEDASSIST: $25k → 10%NC MEDASSIST: $22k → 10%NC MEDASSIST: $22k → 10%North Carolina Lions Inc: $7k → 16%BEAUFORT COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER: $7k → 18%Bertie County YMCA: $5k → 24%NC MedAssist: $17k → 10%Nc Medassist: $16k → 10%NC MedAssist: $15k → 10%Coastal Pregnancy Center: $5k → 18%KOINONIA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $7k → 20%KOINONIA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $7k → 20%KOINONIA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $7k → 20%Churches Outreach Network: $12k → 20%CHURCHES OUTREACH NETWORK: $11k → 20%Carenet Counseling East: $10k → 20%CHURCHES OUTREACH NETWORK: $10k → 20%CHURCHES OUTREACH NETWORK: $10k → 20%Churches Outreach Network: $9k → 20%Churches Outreach Network: $8k → 20%Churches Outreach Network: $8k → 20%Churches Outreach Network: $6k → 20%Pitt County Council On Aging: $103k → 20%Pitt County Council On Aging: $78k → 20%PITT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $78k → 20%Pitt County Council On Aging: $78k → 20%Pitt County Council On Aging: $78k → 20%PITT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $78k → 20%PITT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $78k → 20%Pitt County Council On Aging: $73k → 20%Pitt County Council on Aging: $57k → 20%CARENET COUNSELING EAST: $26k → 20%CARENET COUNSELING EAST: $25k → 20%CareNet Counseling East: $23k → 20%CARENET COUNSELING EAST: $23k → 20%CareNet Counseling East: $20k → 20%Center for Family Violence Prevention: $20k → 20%Carenet Counseling East: $20k → 20%Center for Family Violence Prevention: $15k → 20%CareNet Counseling East: $13k → 20%CareNet Counseling East: $11k → 20%Center For Family Violence Prevention: $10k → 20%Center for Family Violence Prevention: $8k → 20%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34M · 60 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
57

Total granted

$34M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+17%

Still filing today

65%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • PC
    Pitt County Memorial Hospital Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $22M · revenue +74%
  • AE
    Access East Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +39%
  • UH
    University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • CO
    County of Beaufort
    one grant, 2024 · $197k
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $133k · revenue -81%
  • RC
    ROANOKE CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +157%
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
Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found ation
Health
2
East Carolina Health

To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.

Health
3
North Carolina Empowerment Organization
Civil Rights
4
Restoring Hope Center Inc

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…

Human Services
5
North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc

To promote community based primary health care systems in medically underserved areas.

Health
6
Carolina Teen Center

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,…

Health
7
East Carolina Health Dba Ecu Health Community Hospitals

Ecu health community hospitals enhance the quality and management of non-profit hospitals and health care system services.

Health
8
Pamlico Business Resource Center
Community Improvement
9
Robeson Health Care Corporation

Providing primary health care and professional counseling services to all indviduals who need it.

Health
10
Adult Day Health Activity Center Inc

The Adult Day Health Activity Center (ADHAC) provides vital support to individuals with mental illness, behavioral challenges, and disabilities, focusing on enhancing their quality of life and promoting community integration. ADHAC offers…

Health
11
The Alliance of Aids Services-Carolina

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.

Health
12
Cleveland County Abuse Prevention Council Inc

The Abuse Prevention Council provides emergency, advocacy, counseling, education and specialized services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and homeless individuals and families.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Access East Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

83 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. 83 of the 125 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/83
Grantees still filing
53/83
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Pitt County Memorial Hospital Inc: $22,441,742 · HealthPitt County Memorial Hospital IncAccess East Inc: $1,449,500 · HealthAccess East IncUniversity Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc: $1,155,374 · Health+15 more: $793,410 · HealthCOUNTY OF PITT: $1,827,500 · OtherCOUNTY OF PITTEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $1,297,217 · OtherEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSI…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN: $442,150 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS O…EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL & HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC: $393,750 · OtherEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSI…EAST CAROLINA HEALTH: $283,582 · OtherNORTH PITT HIGH SCHOOL: $263,000 · Other+67 more: $2,600,121 · Other+67 morePITT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $700,500 · Human ServicesMedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist: $204,500 · Human ServicesCARENET COUNSELING EAST: $170,200 · Human ServicesChurches Outreach Network: $72,000 · Human ServicesCenter for Family Violence Prevention: $52,700 · Human Services+8 more: $117,450 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $272,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ALBEMARLE: $111,700 · Food & NutritionRIPE FOR REVIVAL: $46,000 · Food & Nutrition+6 more: $48,500 · Food & NutritionThe Greenville Community Shelters: $335,500 · Housing & ShelterRebuilding Together Pitt County NC Inc: $82,500 · Housing & ShelterGRIFTON MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterEXECUTIVE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC & EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INC: $48,000 · EducationCenter for Science Technology and Leadership Development Inc: $42,000 · EducationMARTIN PITT PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC: $32,500 · EducationPICASO INC: $15,000 · EducationBEAUFORT HYDE PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · EducationDOWN EAST PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · EducationHorizons of Pitt County: $7,500 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationSafe Communities Coalition of Pitt County Inc: $161,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Health$25,840,026Other$7,107,320Human Services$1,317,350Food & Nutrition$478,200Housing & Shelter$478,000Education$170,000Public Safety & Disaster$161,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPitt County Memorial Hospital Inc: $22,441,742 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetAccess East Inc: $1,449,500 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetUniversity Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc: $1,155,374 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPITT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $700,500 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN: $442,150 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL & HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC: $393,750 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetThe Greenville Community Shelters: $335,500 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $272,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist: $204,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCARENET COUNSELING EAST: $170,200 over 9y, 11% of budgetSafe Communities Coalition of Pitt County Inc: $161,500 over 9y, 33% of budgetPitt County Coalition on Substance Use: $137,000 over 9y, 43% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $132,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Outer Banks Hospital Inc: $130,110 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWER EAST: $129,500 over 3y, 43% of budgetVidant Medical Group LLC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ALBEMARLE: $111,700 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThird Street Education Center Inc: $84,650 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetRebuilding Together Pitt County NC Inc: $82,500 over 9y, 47% of budgetACES FOR AUTISM: $82,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetChurches Outreach Network: $72,000 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetHope of Glory Ministries Inc: $67,500 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetFIRST BORN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $66,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetGRIFTON MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $60,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetROANOKE CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $59,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREAL CRISIS INTERVENTION INC: $55,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCenter for Family Violence Prevention: $52,700 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetEXECUTIVE CENTER FOR ECONOMIC & EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT INC: $48,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetRIPE FOR REVIVAL: $46,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLITTLE WILLIE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $46,000 over 6y, 35% of budgetCenter for Science Technology and Leadership Development Inc: $42,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NC EAST INC: $38,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMARTIN PITT PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC: $32,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetINTERFAITH COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $30,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCONETOE FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBuilding Hope Community Life Center Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetWILKINSON COMMUNITY EVENT CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetDAUGHTERS OF WORTH: $24,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetBray Hollow Foundation A Time for Science: $22,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetKOINONIA COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $21,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetOperation Sunshine Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetGOD'S LOVE OF PITT COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetBeaufort County United Way Inc: $18,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetJesus Others & You Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetHYDE COUNTY NON-PROFIT PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION CORP: $15,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetPICASO INC: $15,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetJamesville Community EMS & Rescue: $13,800 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA INTERCHURCH SHELTER & KITCHEN INC: $12,000 over 2y, 5.6% 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 Pitt County Memorial Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds Access East Inc ↗
  • Who funds University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc ↗
  • Who funds PITT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN ↗
  • Who funds EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL & HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Greenville Community Shelters ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
  • Who funds MedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist ↗
  • Who funds CARENET COUNSELING EAST ↗
  • Who funds Safe Communities Coalition of Pitt County Inc ↗
  • Who funds Pitt County Coalition on Substance Use ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Outer Banks Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWER EAST ↗
  • Who funds Vidant Medical Group LLC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ALBEMARLE ↗
  • Who funds Third Street Education Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Rebuilding Together Pitt County NC Inc ↗
  • Who funds ACES FOR AUTISM ↗
  • Who funds Churches Outreach Network ↗
  • Who funds Hope of Glory Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds FIRST BORN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GRIFTON MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ROANOKE CHOWAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds REAL CRISIS INTERVENTION 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.

East Carolina HealthNorth Carolina Commun…Eddie and Jo Allison …The Cannon Foundation…James J & Mamie Richa…Southern Bank Foundat…The Golden Leaf IncMildred Sheffield Wel…Food Bank of Central …Tr Uw Vivian S West -…Foundation for the Ca…W Russell and Patrici…
East Carolina HealthNC71.7× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
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    How do I get to University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina 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 125 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 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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