North Carolina · Nonprofit
Carolina Mountain Club Incorporated
Carolina Mountain Club Incorporated (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,523 to it, the largest being APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ($57,844). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- National Wilderness Stewardship Allianceshared fundersportfolio match
- Outdoor Allianceportfolio match
- Conservation Trust for North Carolinaportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $12k → $12k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Carolina Mountain Club Incorporated’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
Carolina Mountain Club Incorporated leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 Carolina Mountain Club Incorporated.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 75% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
Carolina Mountain Club Incorporated draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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.
- National Wilderness Stewardship Allianceshared fundersportfolio matchCO · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Outdoor Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservation Trust for North Carolinaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Partnership for the National Trails System Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Frances & William H Beattie Fdnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bruce Barclay Cameron Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cherokee Preservation Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard Eckerd Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginias United Land Trustsshared fundersVA · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
- National Forest Foundationshared fundersMT · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- Virginia Environmental Endowmentshared fundersVA · backs 8 organizations that share your funders
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 Carolina Mountain Club Incorporated
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Carolina Mountain Club Incorporated: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Carolina Mountain Club Incorporated?
- Carolina Mountain Club Incorporated (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,523 to it, the largest being APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ($57,844). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Carolina Mountain Club Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $99,523 in grants to Carolina Mountain Club Incorporated, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Carolina Mountain Club Incorporated?
- APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $57,844 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Carolina Mountain Club Incorporated 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 7funders 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