How do I find funders for a housing nonprofit in North Carolina?

Start with the funders already giving to housing in North Carolina, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Chicago Community Trust, Dogwood Health Trust. Then look at who funds the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into North Carolina from out of state.

Who is the largest housing funder in North Carolina?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to housing organizations in North Carolina, $40M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to housing in North Carolina?

$578M reached 624 housing organizations in North Carolina, from 1,857 funders. 55% 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 · Housing

Who funds housing in North Carolina

Housing funding in North Carolina is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Habitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region leads, and the money reaches 624 groups.

$578M

granted

624

organizations

55%

from in-state

The short version

1,857 funders gave $578M to 624 housing organizations in North Carolina across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
55% of that came from funders also based in North Carolina; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of housing in North Carolina is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $40M.
The housing organization drawing the most is Habitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region, at $36M.

Largest funders of housing in North Carolina

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$40M 2The Chicago Community Trust$35M 3Dogwood Health Trust$29M 4Foundation for the Carolinas$28M 5Habitat for Humanity International Inc$26M 6United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc$22M 7Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation$16M 8Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc$13M 9Merancas Foundation Inc$12M 10New Hanover Community Endowment Inc$11M

Housing organizations in North Carolina that draw the most

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

614 other housing organizations$403M

Durham Community Land Trustees Inc$16M

How to find housing funders in North Carolina

1
Start with the funders already active in North Carolina
The funders giving the most to housing in North Carolina are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Chicago Community Trust, Dogwood Health Trust. A funder already writing housing checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the housing 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
45% of housing money in North Carolina comes from funders elsewhere, so national housing funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in North Carolina.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a housing nonprofit in North Carolina?: Start with the funders already giving to housing in North Carolina, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, The Chicago Community Trust, Dogwood Health Trust. Then look at who funds the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into North Carolina from out of state.
Who is the largest housing funder in North Carolina?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to housing organizations in North Carolina, $40M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to housing in North Carolina?: $578M reached 624 housing organizations in North Carolina, from 1,857 funders. 55% 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.