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E4 Carolinas Inc

E4 Carolinas Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $535,000 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$776k
Revenue FY2025
4
Funders on record
$535k
Grants received
$125k
Net assets
0/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%

Against its field

E4 Carolinas Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,426 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · above the median
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,426 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($504k) Expenses 100 ($564k) Net assets 100 ($367k)2018 Revenue 98 ($494k) Expenses 95 ($533k) Net assets 89 ($328k)2019 Revenue 110 ($555k) Expenses 98 ($554k) Net assets 90 ($329k)2020 Revenue 155 ($783k) Expenses 131 ($738k) Net assets 107 ($394k)2021 Revenue 202 ($1.0M) Expenses 174 ($981k) Net assets 117 ($429k)2022 Revenue 348 ($1.8M) Expenses 322 ($1.8M) Net assets 101 ($373k)2023 Revenue 230 ($1.2M) Expenses 270 ($1.5M) Net assets 52 ($191k)2024 Revenue 219 ($1.1M) Expenses 226 ($1.3M) Net assets 37 ($136k)2025 Revenue 154 ($776k) Expenses 117 ($661k) Net assets 34 ($125k)
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Revenue (154)Expenses (117)Net assets (34)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 27% · 2021 44% · 2022 40% · 2023 0% · 2024 55% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

62% of E4 Carolinas Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,403 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$60k
17
$39k
18
$956
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$45k
20
$36k
21
$57k
22
$364k
23
$169k
24
$115k
25
0.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $500k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)93% 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 E4 Carolinas 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

E4 Carolinas Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 E4 Carolinas Inc.

93%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100%broadly stable.

“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

93% of E4 Carolinas 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 $35k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $500k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding E4 Carolinas Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.5M on record.

Federal$3.5M
grants $2.9Mcontracts $601k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Energy$1.5M
  • Department of Commerce$1.4M
  • United States Trade and Development Agency$601k

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 E4 Carolinas Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In North Carolina

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NC
SC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for E4 Carolinas 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds E4 Carolinas Inc?
E4 Carolinas Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $535,000 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($500,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does E4 Carolinas Inc have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $535,000 in grants to E4 Carolinas Inc.
Who is the largest funder of E4 Carolinas Inc?
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like E4 Carolinas 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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing