North Carolina · Nonprofit
GREAT RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST
GREAT RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,926,252 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,551,252). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GREAT RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Cancer Research Institute Incshared funders
- Community Reinvestment Fund Incportfolio match
- Appalachian Community Capital Corporationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
59% of GREAT RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $651k → $250k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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: $500k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Opportunity Finance Network). These are real filings, and they are not money GREAT RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST raised.
From the IRS filings of GREAT RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST’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
GREAT RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% 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 GREAT RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 85% · 2022 83% · 2023 100% — 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
GREAT RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $250k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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.
- Cancer Research Institute Incshared fundersNY · backs 19 organizations that share your funders
- Community Reinvestment Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Appalachian Community Capital Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jumpstart Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cba Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Goldman Sachs Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Cdfi Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Common Futureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert J Trulaske Jr Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Missouri Technology Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City Missouriportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Capital Impact Partnersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like GREAT RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Charlotte Small Business Growth Fund LLC · disregarded
- Eba Fund 2021 LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREAT RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST: 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.
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 GREAT RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST?
- GREAT RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,926,252 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($1,551,252). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $2,926,252 in grants to GREAT RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,551,252 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT RIVERS COMMUNITY TRUST 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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