North Carolina · Nonprofit
NCASI FOUNDATION
NCASI FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $544,213 to it, the largest being SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE INC ($280,481). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $544k
- Net assets
- $937k
What Ncasi Foundation does
Mission
The Ncasi Foundation supports environmental science and data to promote the sustainable use of earth's resources, inform regulatory policy, educate, and execute the charitable activities of ncasi, inc.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Ncasi Foundation accomplishes its mission through sponsored research, independent studies, and outreach. Ncasi Foundation sponsored work on "working forests, forest sustainability, and at-risk species through collaborative conservation." the purpose of this project is to quantify the role of working forest landscapes in conserving species-at-risk and maintaining aquatic and terrestrial communities. Specifically, we seek to examine species from multiple taxonomic groups over an extended time horizon in a landscape dominated by certified, private forests managed primarily for timber production.Ncasi Foundation sponsored technical work to "improve the science and risk assessment processes in national ambient air quality standards (naaqs) reviews." this work will identify more more robust methodologies to ensure the science used to inform future ambient air rulemakings, aimed to protect human health and welfare, is of high quality and provides the appropriate strength and weight of evidence necessary to base decisions on future ambient air quality standard levels.Ncasi Foundation sponsored work on "pollinator pathways across landscapes: floral occurrence, pollinator richness, and…
$1,839,291 spentof which $1,763,560 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,839,291.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.0M to $1.5M (+42%).
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: 2022 44% · 2023 58% · 2024 59% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of NCASI FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Vipin Varma
President/CEO
Board chair
Suzanne Cuthbert
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $52k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $132k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Council for Air and Stream Improvement Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NCASI FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of NCASI FOUNDATION’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
NCASI FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% 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
98% 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 NCASI FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 80% · 2022 79% · 2023 97% — 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
NCASI FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
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
NCASI FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 717 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 717 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NCASI FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.8M on record — $8.8M federal, $15k state.
- Department of Agriculture$6.4M
- Department of the Interior$2.3M
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT>$75K$10k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$5k
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 NCASI FOUNDATION
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Council for Air and Stream Improvement Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NCASI FOUNDATION: 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 NCASI FOUNDATION?
- NCASI FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $544,213 to it, the largest being SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE INC ($280,481). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NCASI FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $544,213 in grants to NCASI FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NCASI FOUNDATION?
- SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY INITIATIVE INC is the largest funder on record, with $280,481 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NCASI FOUNDATION 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 3 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