How do I find funders for a food and agriculture nonprofit in North Carolina?

Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in North Carolina, currently Feeding America, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Golden Leaf Inc. Then look at who funds the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into North Carolina from out of state.

How much grant money goes to food and agriculture in North Carolina?

$565M reached 902 food and agriculture organizations in North Carolina, from 2,125 funders. 47% came from funders also based in North Carolina.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · North Carolina · Food and agriculture

Who funds food and agriculture in North Carolina

$565M reached 902 food and agriculture organizations in North Carolina, from 2,125 funders, with no single one dominating.

$565M

granted

902

organizations

47%

from in-state

The short version

2,125 funders gave $565M to 902 food and agriculture organizations in North Carolina across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
47% of that came from funders also based in North Carolina; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of food and agriculture in North Carolina is Feeding America, at $72M.
The food and agriculture organization drawing the most is Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc, at $86M.

Largest funders of food and agriculture in North Carolina

The funders giving the most to food and agriculture organizations in North Carolina, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Feeding America$72M 2Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$65M 3The Golden Leaf Inc$53M 4American Online Giving Foundation Inc$13M 5North Carolina Community Foundation$12M 6Foundation for the Carolinas$12M 7Dogwood Health Trust$11M 8Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$11M 9The Winston-Salem Foundation$9M 10The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc$8M

Food and agriculture organizations in North Carolina that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

892 other food and agriculture organizations$213M

Food Bank of Central & Eastern Nc Inc$86M The North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc$66M Manna Food Bank Inc$54M Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc$37M Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc$34M

How to find food and agriculture funders in North Carolina

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Start with the funders already active in North Carolina
The funders giving the most to food and agriculture in North Carolina are Feeding America, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Golden Leaf Inc. A funder already writing food and agriculture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
53% of food and agriculture money in North Carolina comes from funders elsewhere, so national food and agriculture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in North Carolina.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a food and agriculture nonprofit in North Carolina?: Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in North Carolina, currently Feeding America, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Golden Leaf Inc. Then look at who funds the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into North Carolina from out of state.
Who is the largest food and agriculture funder in North Carolina?: Feeding America gives the most to food and agriculture organizations in North Carolina, $72M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to food and agriculture in North Carolina?: $565M reached 902 food and agriculture organizations in North Carolina, from 2,125 funders. 47% came from funders also based in North Carolina.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.