North Carolina · Nonprofit
Be More Foundation
Be More Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,000 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $0
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $687
What Be More Foundation does
Mission
The Be More Foundation is an anti-poverty organization that uses media literacy to help urban youth of color organize their priorities and make life choices most likely to disrupt cycles of poverty. We have chosen this target population because they statistically experience the worst outcomes by nearly every economic metric. it is our belief that by teaching urban youth how to deconstruct counterproductive messaging and realign personal priorities, they can disrupt the perpetuation of poverty and increase their life chances.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Shattering stereotypes
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $13k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Be More Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Be More Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Be More Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Be More Foundation's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like Be More Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Be More Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Be More Foundation?
- Be More Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,000 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Be More Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $31,000 in grants to Be More Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Be More Foundation?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Be More Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2018 (financials across 2018–2018), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing