North Carolina · Nonprofit
DO GREATER FOUNDATION INC
DO GREATER FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,185,101 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($476,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Do Greater Foundation Inc does
Mission
Do Greater Charlotte is a non-profit empowering communities to do greater by providing tools and technology, spaces and community for youth in underserved communities to build their creative confidence and turn their ideas into future opportunities. We do it through a platform that facilitates creative collisions with youth and the creative community by providing training in design, entrepreneurship and creative technology.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Do Greater Charlotte is committed to empowering youth and young adults by providing immersive training in innovation, entrepreneurship, and creative trades. In 2022, we launched the Do Greater Charlotte Creative Lab, an 8,000 square foot innovation and training hub located in Charlotte?s historic West Side. This space serves as a dynamic engine for upward mobility, intentionally designed to provide access to the tools, mentors, and real-world experiences often missing in under-resourced communities. Since opening the Lab, we have served over 1200 youth and 5000 creative entrepreneurs and adults through our in-house programs, workshops, cohort-based trainings, and open lab experiences. Our programs are tailored to support individuals ages 13 to 24 as they develop the skills, confidence, and creative capacity to thrive in the digital economy. The Creative Lab functions as a multi-purpose learning and innovation center, offering: 1-Entrepreneurship training through our Start Upward Programs. 2-Digital creative and technical skills development in media production, marketing, design, and technology 3-Workforce development support including career readiness and job placement pipelines…
$628,126 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $628,126.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $83k to $803k (+869%).
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.
83% of DO GREATER FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
William R Mcneely Jr
CEO
Board chair
Bruce Bellamy
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $342k → $75k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 DO GREATER FOUNDATION INC’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
DO GREATER FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 DO GREATER FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 58% · 2022 79% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
63% of DO GREATER 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 $436k that is directly attributable, 50% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $749k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
DO GREATER FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding DO GREATER FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $97k on record.
- Department of State$97k
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.
Organizations like DO GREATER 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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DO GREATER FOUNDATION INC: 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 DO GREATER FOUNDATION INC?
- DO GREATER FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,185,101 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($476,100). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DO GREATER FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,185,101 in grants to DO GREATER FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DO GREATER FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $476,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DO GREATER 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.
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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 2020–2024), and the filings of 15 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