North Carolina · Nonprofit
CCCP COMMUNITY TRUST
CCCP COMMUNITY TRUST (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,610,100 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($1,113,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Cccp Community Trust does
Mission
The mission of Cccp Community Trust (cccpct) is to provide a platform for city-wide community-building arts, education, sustainability, health and wellness initiatives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cccpct enhances arts, cultural and entertainment opportunities in charlotte by creating inclusive arts experiences. This is accomplished by cccpct dba charlotte artsfest, inc. Through a range of coordinated festival events such as the novant health thanksgiving eve parade, and charlotte shout!. The novant health thanksgiving eve parade is the city's annual holiday parade on the night before thanksgiving, which cccpct began producing in 2013. In addition, cccpct secured several grants: to activate the north tryon area, to enhance our music everywhere initiative to provide aide to those in that community affected by the pandemic and lastly to sponsor activation of the rail trail.
$12,193,491 spent$1,016,188 earned by the program100% of program spendingCccpct will invest in initiatives that build community through education, health, wellness, and sustainability. The first model program to support these goals is cccpct dba charlotte b-cycle, made possible by bluecross and blueshield of north carolina. This is a bike share program for the city of charlotte to support healthy and sustainable transportation choices and better bike awareness in the city. This program is a public-private partnership between cccpct and the city of charlotte. The program sunset and closed in february 2025. The financials closed in june 2025.
$64,644 earned by the programCccpct created a single member llc that invests in the community through small business innovation fund grants given to small businesses as they adapt their operations or business models in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic. The program is intended to support these local businesses as they seek to innovate, to stay competitive, and advance. The program was paused in 2025.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,193,491.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $4.4M to $7.1M (+64%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 2% · 2021 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of CCCP COMMUNITY TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Darrel Williams
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $789k → $141k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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: $7.3M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation for the Carolinas). These are real filings, and they are not money CCCP COMMUNITY TRUST raised.
From the IRS filings of CCCP COMMUNITY TRUST’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
CCCP COMMUNITY TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2023 93% — 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.
Where its funders are
CCCP COMMUNITY TRUST draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $120k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
CCCP COMMUNITY TRUST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 570 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CCCP COMMUNITY TRUST
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.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Center City Business Innovation Fund LLC · disregarded
- Charlotte Center City Partners · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CCCP COMMUNITY TRUST: 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 CCCP COMMUNITY TRUST?
- CCCP COMMUNITY TRUST (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,610,100 to it, the largest being JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION ($1,113,600). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CCCP COMMUNITY TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,610,100 in grants to CCCP COMMUNITY TRUST, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CCCP COMMUNITY TRUST?
- JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,113,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CCCP COMMUNITY TRUST 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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