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Medicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc

Medicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,479,556 to it, the largest being COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ($1,050,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$804k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$1.7M
6/13 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Medicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc does

Mission

Medicine Bowl is a constellation of movement organizers, farmers, and land stewards who are on a mission to nourish, feed, house & build alternative infrastructuresfor their communities and themselves. Nestled on 142 acres of land in the Green Mountains of Western North Carolina, Medicine Bowl is a home and a hub forhealing and movement building in the South.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Land Residency - Medicine Bowl has a thriving residential community of queer, trans, and non-binary Black, Indigenous, People of Color individuals and families. Residents share in the stewarding, maintenance, and overall caretaking of Medicine Bowl grounds, buildings, and barns, including their living quarters and common areas within.

    $72,410 spent
    44% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $44,917 spent
    27% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $35,095 spent
    21% of program spending
  4. Other Programs

    $12,310 spent
    7% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $164,732.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($188k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 47 ($730k) Expenses 284 ($532k) Net assets 115 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 45 ($699k) Expenses 359 ($673k) Net assets 117 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 52 ($804k) Expenses 339 ($636k) Net assets 129 ($1.7M)
2021202220232024
Revenue (52)Expenses (339)Net assets (129)Peer revenue range

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 $1.4M to $1.6M (+14%).

$1.4M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$1.7M
2021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Medicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.4M
’21
$198k
’22
$25k
’23
$169k
’24
6.4
months of
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.

Board chair

Valencia Gunder

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed4415
Joined·+3··
No longer listed·3··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $642k → $748k.

6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 Medicine Bowl Giving Circle 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

Medicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

74% 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 Medicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc.

42%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 96% · 2022 79% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.

“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

56% of Medicine Bowl Giving Circle 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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 5 states.

MT
NY
CA
DC
FL

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

’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Medicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · above the median
Months of reserve6.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−19% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Medicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc

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In North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

26% of spending goes to programs.

Program 26%Management 74%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Medicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc?
Medicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,479,556 to it, the largest being COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ($1,050,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Medicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,479,556 in grants to Medicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Medicine Bowl Giving Circle Inc?
COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Medicine Bowl Giving Circle 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 13 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