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NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION
NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,436,982 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($36,382,600). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $49M
- Net assets
- $9.5M
What North Carolina League of Conservation Voters Foundation does
Mission
NCLCVF engages people to protect our environment and promote the well-being of our communities. We work to turn environmental values into NC priorities by engaging people in the democratic process, organizing in communities first and worst impacted by environmental degradation, cultivating environmental leaders, and advocating for policies that protect the health and quality of life for all North Carolinians, with an intentional focus on systematically excluded communities of color.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Public Education/Civic Engagement: Educating citizens on env. issues; how to participate in public policy making and the democratic process. Organizing/leadership development in communities. Non-partisan civic engagement/infrequent voter mobilization campaigns through field canvassing. Partnering with national and state partners to build public, media, and grasstop support for climate change and other sound environmental policies. Educate, engage, mobilize community leaders and allied organizations on local, state, and federal environmental, energy, climate, and environmental justice issues.
$12,862,687 spent91% of program spendingInfluencing rulemaking/policy-making: watchdog rulemaking process & administrative advocacy with state agencies to improve NC environmental rules, advocacy within limits of 501h election advocate for joint priorities.
$768,281 spent5% of program spendingEnforcement, Rulemaking, Policy Engagement: research environmental policy, host meetings, work with state and national groups on policy issues, raise public awareness of issues, with focus on clean energy and climate. Work with state agencies and commissions to improve rulemaking and enforcement. Provide detailed support and resources to the environmental community on clean energy issues. Work to ensure that the environmental community and state agency staff are working together and communicating effectively.
$443,209 spent3% of program spendingCapacity Building programs: work with NC groups on better civic engagement and environmental education participate in collaborative projects to improve capacity of groups to work together on environmental issues, including message development. Work to build stronger collaborations across environmental groups and allies that build collective capacity.
$130,474 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,204,651.
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 $5.4M to $9.3M (+73%).
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.
98% of NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $2.2M → $8.4M.
7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS 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
NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 77% · 2019 89% · 2020 70% · 2021 88% · 2022 77% · 2023 85% — 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
67% of NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
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
79% of NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION'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 $10M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 330 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 330 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS 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
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- NC League of Conservation Voters · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION?
- NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,436,982 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($36,382,600). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $49,436,982 in grants to NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS FOUNDATION?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $36,382,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH CAROLINA LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing