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CAROLINA FINTECH HUB

CAROLINA FINTECH HUB (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $125,000 to it, the largest being The LendingTree Foundation ($125,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2023
$277k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$125k
Net assets
$15k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Carolina Fintech Hub does

Mission

The Carolina Fintech Hub is a non-profit organization comprised of finance and technology leadership in the Carolinas region focused on fostering the advancement of financial technology and talent in the region.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Talent Development - Through outreach, hackathons, meetups, conferences, and fintech pitch days, Carolina Fintech Hub (the Organization) is creating additional pipelines of talent to augment todays traditional hiring approaches. Our goal is to place exceptional candidates from diverse backgrounds into open positions, and ultimately retain the best talent in the Carolinas.

    $170,417 spent
    50% of program spending

  2. Outreach - Connecting the Fintech ecosystem through networking events, conferences, monthly meetings, and other communication channels.

    $85,692 spent
    25% of program spending

  3. Innovation - Progressing innovation by sourcing a pipeline of innovation for recruitment, incubation and dealmaking.

    $85,692 spent
    25% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $341,801.

02The 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 ($520k) Expenses 100 ($41k) Net assets 100 ($479k)2018 Revenue 184 ($955k) Expenses 1496 ($620k) Net assets 170 ($813k)2019 Revenue 175 ($910k) Expenses 2942 ($1.2M) Net assets 105 ($503k)2020 Revenue 275 ($1.4M) Expenses 2662 ($1.1M) Net assets 173 ($827k)2021 Revenue 296 ($1.5M) Expenses 3620 ($1.5M) Net assets 180 ($863k)2022 Revenue 208 ($1.1M) Expenses 4441 ($1.8M) Net assets 22 ($103k)2023 Revenue 53 ($277k) Expenses 881 ($366k) Net assets 3 ($15k)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (53)Expenses (881)Net assets (3)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $895k to $103k (−88%).

$479k
$813k
$503k
$827k
$895k
$103k
$15k
2017201820192020202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CAROLINA FINTECH HUB’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$479k
’17
$335k
’18
−$310k
’19
$324k
’20
$36k
’21
−$760k
’22
−$88k
’23
0.5
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

2017201820192020202120222023
Listed571111666
Joined·+2+5+1+0+0+0
No longer listed·011500
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of CAROLINA FINTECH HUB’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.

Where its funders are

100% of CAROLINA FINTECH HUB's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CAROLINA FINTECH HUB's revenue fell 47% between 2017 and 2023.

Operating margin−32% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−10% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,535 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023

Organizations like CAROLINA FINTECH HUB

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

North Carolina Chamber Foundation80%Habitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region79%Foundation for the Carolinas78%North Carolina Freeenterprise Foundation78%Carolina Small Business Development Fund78%Community Affordable Housing Equity Corporation77%Charlotte Regional Business Alliance Foundation77%Carolina Hurricanes Foundation77%

Nationally

North Carolina Chamber Foundation80%Charleston Chamber Foundation80%Habitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region79%Foundation for the Carolinas78%North Carolina Freeenterprise Foundation78%Carolina Small Business Development Fund78%Central Carolina Economic Development Alliance78%Capitalplus Exchange Corporation77%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
83%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAROLINA FINTECH HUB: 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 CAROLINA FINTECH HUB?
CAROLINA FINTECH HUB (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $125,000 to it, the largest being The LendingTree Foundation ($125,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CAROLINA FINTECH HUB have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $125,000 in grants to CAROLINA FINTECH HUB.
Who is the largest funder of CAROLINA FINTECH HUB?
The LendingTree Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAROLINA FINTECH HUB 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 1 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