North Carolina · Nonprofit
CHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS
CHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,250 to it, the largest being THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.3M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $104k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Charlotte Center City Partners does
Mission
Charlotte Center City Partners (cccp) boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure charlotte center city is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich and beloved place for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cccp includes planning the uptown vibrancy collaborative, planning and development, economic and community development, research, marketing, communications, south end and uptown neighborhood constituent services and operations under this area. Cccp is working with public and private partners to enhance public safety, improve perception, produce weekly programming, and drive economic vitality. Economic development is strong. Our state of the center city report and event bring economic development professionals and brokers the information they need to market the urban core to employers and site selectors. Cccp has completed the n. Tryon vision plan and is working on targeted implementation and programming. Our marketing and communications teams are focusing on our social media, websites, traditional media, electronic newsletter, and partner campaigns as our primary communications channels. Other ongoing programs include management of the tryon street vendor program and permitting of special event and banner placement. Cccp also has a management agreement with the market at 7th street to provide functional support and strategic planning regarding the market's strategy, vision,…
$5,825,501 spentof which $513,268 as grants$8,233,645 earned by the program90% of program spendingDevelop and produce quality programming and events that create a vibrant urban core, while addressing the needs of stakeholders. We produce the novant health thanksgiving eve parade, charlotte shout! And clt new year's eve. For other programming, we shifted our focus to more frequent street-level programming that activates and animates while connecting with the stakeholders of uptown and south end. Our programming focused around major initiatives such as pop-up retail, south end, rail trail and uptown neighborhood initiatives as well as holidays in the city and the center city vision awards. Cccp works with other event producers to be sure all events in the center city are of a high caliber. We continue to work on our initiative music everywhere, to seed live music in the center city with the support of funding partners and music producers. Accomplishments: continued success of the novant health thanksgiving eve parade, successful charlotte shout, building of music everywhere, successful shift from large scale events to street-scale programming.
$626,060 spent$46,744 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,451,561.
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.
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 $3.4M to $5.4M (+58%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Michael Smith
President/CEO
Board chair
William H Rogers Jr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $16k → $37k.
From the IRS filings of CHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
CHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 CHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2022 91% · 2023 73% — 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
100% of CHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like CHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cccp Community Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS: 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 CHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS?
- CHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $104,250 to it, the largest being THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $104,250 in grants to CHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS?
- THE PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARLOTTE CENTER CITY PARTNERS 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 4 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