North Carolina · Nonprofit
Kinship Plot Inc
Kinship Plot Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,716 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($91,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $249k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $147k
- Net assets
- $244k
What Kinship Plot Inc does
Mission
Kinship Plot creates stories places and beautiful schemes of rooted belonging through affordable housing cultivation collaborative learning the arts and community gatherings.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Affordable Housing: we are building a pocket neighborhood of twenty-four affordable homes for low-income workforce households to foster housing stability resilience and belonging.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
We are building a pocket neighborhood of twenty-four affordable homes for low-income workforce households to foster housing stability resilience and belonging. In 2025 we met our goals for the predevelopment phase of this program.
$27,814 spent27% of program spendingOddkin Unite is a curated series of art-and-dinner gatherings where artists create and present new work and participants engage in meaningful dialogue that leads to resonance connection and bridge building across differences. In 2025 we commissioned 8 artists engaged 5 chefs and hosted 183 participants across 5 gatherings.
$37,085 spent$1,882 earned by the program36% of program spendingThrough our Cultivation program we nurture both the land and our community through intentional care for the land and more equitable food access. In 2025 we grew 760 pounds of food engaged 286 people in garden workdays and events and ran a successful garden apprenticeship program.
$32,537 spent$1,979 earned by the program32% of program spendingMiscellaneous program expenses
$4,858 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $102,294.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $111k to $245k (+121%).
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.
96% of Kinship Plot Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% 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
Stephanie Vander Lugt
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 Kinship Plot 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
Kinship Plot Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Kinship Plot Inc.
“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
96% of Kinship Plot 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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k 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
Kinship Plot Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Kinship Plot 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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Kinship Plot 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 Kinship Plot Inc?
- Kinship Plot Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,716 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($91,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 96% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Kinship Plot Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $146,716 in grants to Kinship Plot Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kinship Plot Inc?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $91,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kinship Plot 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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