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BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC

BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,479,681 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($4,869,749). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$5.9M
Revenue FY2024
96
Funders on record
$12M
Grants received
$17M
Net assets
57/96 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 61%

Against its field

BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,925 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve10.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,925 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.2M) Expenses 100 ($6.0M) Net assets 100 ($9.9M)2018 Revenue 96 ($6.0M) Expenses 111 ($6.6M) Net assets 93 ($9.2M)2019 Revenue 100 ($6.2M) Expenses 114 ($6.8M) Net assets 87 ($8.7M)2020 Revenue 99 ($6.2M) Expenses 112 ($6.8M) Net assets 82 ($8.1M)2021 Revenue 34 ($2.1M) Expenses 37 ($2.2M) Net assets 80 ($8.0M)2022 Revenue 148 ($9.3M) Expenses 78 ($4.7M) Net assets 127 ($13M)2023 Revenue 87 ($5.5M) Expenses 84 ($5.0M) Net assets 131 ($13M)2024 Revenue 95 ($5.9M) Expenses 92 ($5.5M) Net assets 173 ($17M)
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Revenue (95)Expenses (92)Net assets (173)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 45% · 2018 48% · 2019 53% · 2020 49% · 2021 19% · 2022 10% · 2023 10% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,026 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$237k
17
$661k
18
$586k
19
$545k
20
$68k
21
$4.6M
22
$407k
23
$385k
24
11
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 40 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $886k.

20 of 96 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)61% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Boys' Club of Wake County Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC raised.

From the IRS filings of BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 96 funders by total. 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

BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 39% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

80% 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 BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC.

39%
largest funder
56%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 29% · 2019 27% · 2020 19% · 2021 31% · 2022 85% · 2023 20%diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

40% of BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

60% of BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.9M that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 20 states.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 96 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In North Carolina

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 15%Fundraising 11%

Governance

57
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Boys' Club of Wake County Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC: 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 BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC?
BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 96 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,479,681 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($4,869,749). 57 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 96 organizations giving $12,479,681 in grants to BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC, 57 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $4,869,749 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BOYS CLUB OF WAKE COUNTY INC 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 96funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing