North Carolina · Nonprofit
CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,976,270 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,715,525). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $105M
What Central Piedmont Community College Foundation Inc does
Mission
The foundation's mission is to generate private financial support to further the mission of central piedmont community college.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
By removing financial barriers and expanding access to opportunities, central piedmont has been a place of transformation throughout its history. The central piedmont foundation secures philanthropic support to invest in scholarships that make a college education accessible for students. Scholarships include opportunity scholarships for students from charlotte's most economically challenged high schools and neighborhoods; transfer scholarships for students preparing to earn a four-year degree; career-focused scholarships for students who aspire to enter the workforce upon graduation; and many general and discipline-specific scholarships. The resources are funded with designated expendable and endowed support. During fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, the foundation funded nearly 4,800 scholarships to support students.
$4,367,074 spentof which $4,367,074 as grants45% of program spendingThrough its extensive educational programs, central piedmont offers individuals the opportunity to earn an associate degree, work toward a four-year degree, or take a direct path to employment. The college offers nearly 300 programs in 14 career fields with more than 55 professional pathways so that students are prepared for a real-world career. Classes are designed for close-knit learning with a 15:1 average student to teacher ratio. Students learn from faculty with actual career experience and a hands-on experiential approach. Hundreds of online classes and continuing education programs are available to prepare students for the next step in their career. These educational programs combine to equip students for productive, meaningful lives and position them to contribute to the growth and vitality of the region.
$2,667,699 spentof which $2,667,699 as grants27% of program spendingAs an open-door institution, central piedmont strives to provide its student body with the tools and support services necessary to facilitate success. The foundation's work enhances the college's capacity to address the factors that impede student retention and completion by creating a culture that promotes student success and expands opportunities for students to make meaningful connections to the college. The foundation supported student success and engagement in various ways. Services for students include personal counseling, emergency funding, academic and career advising, summer bridge experiences, disability services, military family and veterans services, mentorships and leadership development, as well as out-of-classroom experiences such as internships, apprenticeships, work-based learning, and global studies.
$320,132 spentof which $320,132 as grants$280,000 earned by the program3% of program spendingThe central piedmont foundation engages donor support at all levels to provide the college with the resources required to respond to current and emerging priorities and needs of its students and the community. Gifts to the foundation provide critical resources to sustain the college's essential operations and core commitments to support student success. With foundation funding, the college also encourages, develops, and recognizes excellence among its faculty and staff. The college's center for teaching and learning excellence provides professional development to ensure that faculty knowledge and skills evolve to the highest levels to meet the ever-changing needs of students. Funding is further utilized for campus and auxiliary services, facilities, and maintenance to ensure an outstanding on-campus experience. Through the funding of various program services, the foundation continues to ensure faculty, staff, and students have an ideal environment for teaching, learning, and growing to facilitate a transformational experience for all students.
$2,437,961 spentof which $2,362,519 as grants25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,792,866.
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 2022 to 2023, from $81M to $97M (+19%).
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: 2017 3% · 2018 0% · 2023 15% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
J Carlton Showalter Jr
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $311k → $2.2M.
12 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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: $18M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation for the Carolinas). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
63% 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 CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 68% · 2019 81% · 2020 35% · 2021 59% · 2022 40% · 2023 46% — 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
21% of CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
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
52% of CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 $6.3M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.7M 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.
Against its field
CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,976,270 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,715,525). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $12,976,270 in grants to CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,715,525 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 35 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