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NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC

NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,059,297 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($1,000,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$4.8M
Revenue FY2025
21
Funders on record
$3.1M
Grants received
$68M
Net assets
14/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%

Against its field

NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Months of reserve29.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.1M) Net assets 100 ($35M)2018 Revenue 136 ($3.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.1M) Net assets 110 ($38M)2019 Revenue 114 ($3.0M) Expenses 101 ($3.1M) Net assets 115 ($40M)2020 Revenue 108 ($2.8M) Expenses 105 ($3.2M) Net assets 114 ($40M)2021 Revenue 174 ($4.6M) Expenses 94 ($2.9M) Net assets 155 ($54M)2022 Revenue 126 ($3.3M) Expenses 86 ($2.6M) Net assets 157 ($55M)2023 Revenue 161 ($4.2M) Expenses 91 ($2.8M) Net assets 159 ($56M)2024 Revenue 194 ($5.1M) Expenses 101 ($3.1M) Net assets 178 ($62M)2025 Revenue 183 ($4.8M) Expenses 96 ($3.0M) Net assets 195 ($68M)
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Revenue (183)Expenses (96)Net assets (195)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

57% of NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,312 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$448k
17
$517k
18
$99k
19
$385k
20
$1.7M
21
$665k
22
$1.4M
23
$2.0M
24
$1.8M
25
30
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $19k → $417k.

12 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)73% 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: $14M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest NC State Investment Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION 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

NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

82% 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 NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC.

33%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 89% · 2019 79% · 2020 77% · 2021 84% · 2022 68% · 2023 24%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.

How long its funders stay

25% of NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

73% of NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION 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 $837k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

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

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 2%Fundraising 7%

Governance

17
board members
88%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

79%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 12 related entities

  • The North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Nc State University Alumni Association · exempt
  • Nc State Engineering Foundation · exempt
  • North Carolina State University Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Nc State University College of Sciences · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION 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 NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC?
NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,059,297 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($1,000,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 73% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $3,059,297 in grants to NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION INC?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NC STATE NATURAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION 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.

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 21funders 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