North Carolina · Nonprofit
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,400,540 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($142,206,902). 86 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.
Against its field
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 671 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 671 education nonprofits over $100M, 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.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared funders
- Agc Education and Research Foundation Incportfolio match
- Beavers Charitable Trustportfolio match
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.
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.
80% of NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 35 funders to 56 funders, grant income rose $6.6M → $11M.
34 of 145 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $123M from 14 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest NC State Investment Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 145 funders by total. 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 STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 82% · 2019 54% · 2020 40% · 2021 33% · 2022 43% · 2023 28% — 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
48% of NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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 STATE UNIVERSITY 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 $43M that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $167M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 statesis 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.
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 145 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 78 organizations that share your funders
- Agc Education and Research Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beavers Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Carolina Biotechnology Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Institute for Feed Education and Research Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Horticultural Research Institute Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wind for Schools LLC Dba Repowering Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Public and Land-Grant Universitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Land Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hacking for Defense Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Norwich Universityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Chemical Societyshared fundersDC · backs 112 organizations that share your funders
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 NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 15 related entities
- Nc State Executive Education LLC · disregarded
- North Carolina Veterinary Medical Foundation Inc · exempt
- The North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc · exempt
- Nc State Engineering Foundation Inc · exempt
- Nc State University College of Sciences Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 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 NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC?
- NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,400,540 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($142,206,902). 86 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 STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 145 organizations giving $210,400,540 in grants to NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC, 86 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $142,206,902 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY 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 145funders 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