North Carolina · Nonprofit
MCNC
MCNC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,177,472 to it, the largest being THE GOLDEN LEAF INC ($5,177,472). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $74M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $120M
What McNc does
Mission
To provide advanced electronic and information technologies to the nc education community, public health, and government agencies and to benefit economic development in nc.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
McNc provides technical infrastructure to educate, innovate and enhance economic development throughout north carolina. McNc serves the north carolina public sector community by providing high quality network infrastructure and network related services. McNc provides the wan/backbone and internet connectivity to state universities, community colleges, independent universities and colleges, local education agencies (basically to each county's public k-12 school's administration), charter schools, private k-12 schools, libraries, research institutions, public health (free clinics & hospital locations), and government agencies. These services are provided with a service level agreement of 99.99% "up" time. McNc additionally provides collocation/hosting or backup/storage data.
$55,820,217 spent$65,596,828 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $55,820,217.
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.
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 $150M to $175M (+17%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 9% · 2018 10% · 2019 10% · 2020 9% · 2021 9% · 2022 8% · 2023 7% · 2024 1% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of MCNC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (52% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Tracy Doaks
President, CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1.4M → $1.4M.
From the IRS filings of MCNC’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.
Where its funders are
100% of MCNC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
MCNC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 78 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 78 science & tech nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MCNC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.8M on record.
- Department of Commerce$11.8M
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 MCNC
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- MCNC Endowment · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MCNC: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MCNC?
- MCNC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,177,472 to it, the largest being THE GOLDEN LEAF INC ($5,177,472). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MCNC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,177,472 in grants to MCNC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MCNC?
- THE GOLDEN LEAF INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,177,472 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MCNC 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 1 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