North Carolina · Nonprofit
CHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION
CHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,788,743 to it, the largest being Wells Fargo Foundation ($850,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Charlotte Regional Business Alliance Foundation does
Mission
Small businesses and business leaders thrive.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Wellness: this 6-month program supports entrepreneurs' well-being through financial education, relaxation workshops, and a cohort experience where participants can build a self care plan with accountability partners. Catch your breath is designed to combat burnout and chronic stress. Regional transportation: provide guidance and engagement with local leaders on a regional comprehensive transportation plan that will be unifying to the regional governments of charlotte and mecklenburg county and the state to enhance the growth of all businesses in the charlotte region. Nc grant: north carolina state grant to study the downtown office conversion and potential impacts to the small business community.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Charlotte small business growth fund is an innovative fund focused on giving small businesses-including those that may not qualify for funding elsewhere-access to capital at competitive rates. Funding flows through mission based community development financial institutions that stay engaged throughout the life of the loan, providing coaching, mentoring, accelerators and other supportive services.
$108,413 spent$219,954 earned by the program8% of program spendingRise (regional innovation and support for entrepreneurs) is an innovative artificial intelligence powered technology platform that helps entrepreneurs navigate resouces available to start, run and grow businesses. Highlighting the abundance of resources available to entrepreneurs, in a single platform, while keeping those resources perpetually up to date, saves entrepreneurs precious time, allowing them to focus on the fundamental of growing their businesses. The platform also provides useful data and insight into the most sought after and leveraged resources in the small business ecosystem.
$62,405 spent$109,977 earned by the program5% of program spendingScale up clt is a business accelerator focused on helping entrepreneurs with businesses between $250,000 and $999,999 in revenue, exceed $1,000,000. Entering our sixth cohort, over 26% of scale up clt participants have grown their businesses beyond $1,000,000, as compared to under 4% of all businesses nationally. Additionally, participants have seen an average year over year revenue growth of 33%.
$268,383 spent$247,154 earned by the program20% of program spendingLeadership academy of charlotte is a 10 month leadership program which has given more than 300 leaders across the nation the opportunity to advance their careers into senior executive and c-suite roles. Executive leaders excel in their professions and grow their careers. Guided by a research-based curriculum, participants go through extensive coaching and personal development.digital marketplace for purchasing and supplier organizations: the foundation helps increase the visibility of mid-market companies that are seeking to offer contracting opportunities to small business.ace: accounting for charlotte entrepreneurs supplements the ongoing need for accounting, marketing and legal services, the foundation works in partnership with organizationswhich provides services to entrepreneurs and small business owners.wellness: this 6-month program supports entrepreneurs' well-being through financial education, relaxation workshops, and a cohort experience where participants can build a self care plan with accountability partners. Catch your breath is designed to combat burnout and chronic stress.regional transportation: provide guidance and engagement with local leaders on a regional…
$880,504 spent$1,029,884 earned by the program67% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,319,705.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2021 to 2022, from $445k to $1.0M (+126%).
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.
98% of CHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Andrea Smith Non-Voting
Interim president & CEO of crba
Board chair
Christopher Moxley
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $263k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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: $3.9M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation for the Carolinas). These are real filings, and they are not money CHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of CHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION’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
CHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 65% · 2022 86% · 2023 95% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of CHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 33% 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
CHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $796k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION
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
82% 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 1 related entity
- Charlotte Regional Business Alliance · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION?
- CHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,788,743 to it, the largest being Wells Fargo Foundation ($850,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,788,743 in grants to CHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION?
- Wells Fargo Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARLOTTE REGIONAL BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 12 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