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North Carolina Tar Heels Ice Hockey
North Carolina Tar Heels Ice Hockey (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,190 to it, the largest being PLEDGELING FOUNDATION ($5,690). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $385k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $154k
What North Carolina Tar Heels Ice Hockey does
Mission
The Club is a nonprofit corporation organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and Section 55A-1-40(4) of the North Carolina General Statutes. It is not established for the private gain of any individual and is specifically dedicated to fostering national and international amateur sports competition.The Clubs purpose includes, but is not limited to, securing funding to support and sustain an ice hockey team representing the University of North Carolina, competing at the intercollegiate level.Significant Activities include fundraising through donor outreach, selling game tickets, executing fundraising events and soliciting donations. Additionally, we are in the process of doing research to help secure a new home arena for the team
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The Arena project has progressed to become its own separate activity.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
To foster national or international ameteur sports competitions exclusively for charitable and educational purposes.
$135,029 spent60% of program spendingWe are leading an initiative to secure a new ice hockey arena to serve as the home venue for the University of North Carolina Ice Hockey program.This effort includes, but is not limited to, raising seed funding, conducting preliminary research to identify a suitable site, commissioning an independent feasibility study, engaging local town leadership to build support, and ultimately developing a comprehensive business plan.
$91,543 spent40% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $226,572.
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 2024 to 2025, from $14k to $155k (+977%).
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.
84% of North Carolina Tar Heels Ice Hockey’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Tar Heels Ice Hockey’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 Tar Heels Ice Hockey leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% 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
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 Tar Heels Ice Hockey.
“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
100% of North Carolina Tar Heels Ice Hockey'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Tar Heels Ice Hockey runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like North Carolina Tar Heels Ice Hockey
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for North Carolina Tar Heels Ice Hockey: 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 Tar Heels Ice Hockey?
- North Carolina Tar Heels Ice Hockey (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,190 to it, the largest being PLEDGELING FOUNDATION ($5,690). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does North Carolina Tar Heels Ice Hockey have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $11,190 in grants to North Carolina Tar Heels Ice Hockey.
- Who is the largest funder of North Carolina Tar Heels Ice Hockey?
- PLEDGELING FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,690 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like North Carolina Tar Heels Ice Hockey 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 2 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