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Who funds youth development in North Carolina

Youth development funding in North Carolina is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Boys Club of Wake County Inc leads, and the money reaches 643 groups.

$397M
granted
643
organizations
51%
from in-state

The short version

Largest funders of youth development in North Carolina

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$25M2Boys & Girls Clubs of America$17M3Foundation for the Carolinas$16M4Dogwood Health Trust$11M5United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc$10M6North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc$9M7Triangle Community Foundation Inc$7M8Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc$7M9North Carolina Community Foundation$7M10Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$7M

Youth development organizations in North Carolina that draw the most

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

633 other youth development organizations$290M

How to find youth development funders in North Carolina

  1. 1
    Start with the funders already active in North Carolina

    The funders giving the most to youth development in North Carolina are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Foundation for the Carolinas. A funder already writing youth development checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.

  2. 2
    See who funds organizations like yours

    Open the youth development 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. 3
    Add the out-of-state funders reaching in

    49% of youth development money in North Carolina comes from funders elsewhere, so national youth development funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in North Carolina.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a youth development nonprofit in North Carolina?
Start with the funders already giving to youth development in North Carolina, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Foundation for the Carolinas. Then look at who funds the youth development organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into North Carolina from out of state.
Who is the largest youth development funder in North Carolina?
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to youth development organizations in North Carolina, $25M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to youth development in North Carolina?
$397M reached 643 youth development organizations in North Carolina, from 1,671 funders. 51% 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.