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Carolina Raptor Center Inc

Carolina Raptor Center Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,350,508 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($627,838). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.7M
Funders on record
38
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
$2.2M
18/38 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Carolina Raptor Center Inc does

Mission

Environmental stewardship, education, research, and rehabilitation of injured birds of prey

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Through on and off site educational programs that include formal and informal teaching, the organization uses birds of prey to teach about conservation, flight, and the environment, reaching roughly 500,000 people a year.

    $465,912 spent$144,843 earned by the program
    37% of program spending
  2. The organization rehabilitates and releases up to 800 birds of prey a year that have been injured or orphaned. Additionally, the medical staff teaches its peers how to better handle its own case load.

    $386,478 spent$5,711 earned by the program
    31% of program spending
  3. Visitor service encompasses the living museum, roughly a mile long trail that displays and teaches about native raptor species. This includes a retail gift shop selling educational items and admissions to the center.

    $411,346 spent$613,801 earned by the program
    33% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,263,736.

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 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2018 Revenue 78 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 112 ($2.6M)2019 Revenue 62 ($1.3M) Expenses 101 ($1.4M) Net assets 109 ($2.5M)2020 Revenue 51 ($1.1M) Expenses 95 ($1.3M) Net assets 99 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 69 ($1.4M) Expenses 93 ($1.3M) Net assets 95 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 64 ($1.3M) Expenses 96 ($1.3M) Net assets 92 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 87 ($1.8M) Expenses 130 ($1.8M) Net assets 94 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 81 ($1.7M) Expenses 158 ($2.1M) Net assets 75 ($1.7M)2025 Revenue 84 ($1.7M) Expenses 120 ($1.6M) Net assets 95 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (84)Expenses (120)Net assets (95)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 2020 to 2021, from $3.0M to $2.6M (−16%).

$2.4M
$2.7M
$2.6M
$3.0M
$2.6M
$2.5M
$2.4M
$2.0M
$2.3M
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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
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

52% of Carolina Raptor Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,665 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$725k
’17
$273k
’18
−$68k
’19
−$227k
’20
$167k
’21
$27k
’22
$58k
’23
−$453k
’24
$136k
’25
5.3
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.

Chief executive

Erin Katzner

Executive director

Board chair

Sherri Belfield

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed242323222119211513
Joined·+8+6+0+5+4+3+5+1
No longer listed·961661113
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 10 funders, grant income fell $336k → $148k.

10 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 Raptor Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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

Carolina Raptor Center Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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

91% 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 Raptor Center Inc.

27%
largest funder
62%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 62% · 2019 68% · 2020 41% · 2021 51% · 2022 65% · 2023 68% — 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.

How long its funders stay

31% of Carolina Raptor Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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

98% of Carolina Raptor Center Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
AZ
NC
SC
FL

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. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Carolina Raptor Center Inc is better cushioned than half of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · below the median
Months of reserve5.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding Carolina Raptor Center Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.

Federal$25k
grants $25kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$25k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

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In North Carolina

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 16%Fundraising 6%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

87%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Carolina Raptor Center Inc?
Carolina Raptor Center Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,350,508 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($627,838). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Carolina Raptor Center Inc have?
IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $2,350,508 in grants to Carolina Raptor Center Inc, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Carolina Raptor Center Inc?
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $627,838 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Carolina Raptor Center 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 38 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing