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MARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATED

MARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATED (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,993,335 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($14,115,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$21M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$22M
Net assets
$179M
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated does

Program

  1. Foundation staff time and expenses on boards, grantee technical assistance, participation in funder networks, peer advice to funder colleagues, public policy research and publish results, presenters at conferences, and advisory committees of other charitable organizations.

    $165,000 spent

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($44M) Expenses 100 ($28M) Net assets 100 ($212M)2021 Revenue 127 ($56M) Expenses 54 ($15M) Net assets 119 ($252M)2022 Revenue -110 ($-48332996) Expenses 96 ($27M) Net assets 84 ($177M)2023 Revenue 18 ($7.8M) Expenses 57 ($16M) Net assets 87 ($185M)2024 Revenue 47 ($21M) Expenses 93 ($26M) Net assets 85 ($179M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (47)Expenses (93)Net assets (85)

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 $254M to $177M (−30%).

$213M
$254M
$177M
$186M
$182M
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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

Flozell Daniels Jr

Chief executive officer

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

20202021202220232024
Listed1817151515
Joined·+0+1+2+5
No longer listed·1325
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $1.6M → $2.4M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
2
2
2
3
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of MARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATED’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

MARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

64%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 51% · 2019 51% · 2020 66% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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

MARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATED draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 4 states in all.

NY
NJ
CT
MS

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

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05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds MARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATED?
MARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATED (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,993,335 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($14,115,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATED have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $21,993,335 in grants to MARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATED, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATED?
THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MARY REYNOLDS BABCOCK FOUNDATION INCORPORATED 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 5 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