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Nourish Up

Nourish Up (North Carolina) receives grants from 162 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,702,828 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,468,112). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$14M
Revenue FY2025
162
Funders on record
$16M
Grants received
$44M
Net assets
88/162 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%

Against its field

Nourish Up runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,000 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,000 human services nonprofits $10M–$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.

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 ($3.7M) Expenses 100 ($3.2M) Net assets 100 ($2.2M)2018 Revenue 147 ($5.4M) Expenses 110 ($3.5M) Net assets 191 ($4.1M)2019 Revenue 116 ($4.2M) Expenses 122 ($3.8M) Net assets 214 ($4.6M)2020 Revenue 261 ($9.5M) Expenses 180 ($5.7M) Net assets 398 ($8.6M)2021 Revenue 314 ($11M) Expenses 215 ($6.8M) Net assets 823 ($18M)2022 Revenue 422 ($15M) Expenses 252 ($8.0M) Net assets 1114 ($24M)2023 Revenue 544 ($20M) Expenses 270 ($8.5M) Net assets 1666 ($36M)2024 Revenue 554 ($20M) Expenses 368 ($12M) Net assets 2052 ($44M)2025 Revenue 378 ($14M) Expenses 353 ($11M) Net assets 2054 ($44M)
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Revenue (378)Expenses (353)Net assets (2054)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
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2020
2021
2022
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2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 10% · 2018 4% · 2019 17% · 2020 23% · 2021 10% · 2022 5% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

92% of Nourish Up’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,397 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$491k
17
$1.9M
18
$391k
19
$3.8M
20
$4.7M
21
$7.5M
22
$11M
23
$8.6M
24
$2.7M
25
3.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 70 funders, grant income rose $178k → $2.8M.

27 of 162 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)42% 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 Nourish Up’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 162 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

Nourish Up has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left

48% 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 Nourish Up.

9%
largest funder
27%
top three
~20
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 22% · 2019 16% · 2020 12% · 2021 25% · 2022 38% · 2023 15%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

49% of Nourish Up's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

74% of Nourish Up's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NH
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
SC
GA
TX
FL

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. $6.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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 162 funders put you typical 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.

Government funding Nourish Up receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $850k on record.

Federal$850k
grants $850kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$850k

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 Nourish Up

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

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 6%Fundraising 11%

Governance

24
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

96%

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 Nourish Up: 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 Nourish Up?
Nourish Up (North Carolina) receives grants from 162 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,702,828 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,468,112). 88 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Nourish Up have?
IRS filings report 162 organizations giving $15,702,828 in grants to Nourish Up, 88 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Nourish Up?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,468,112 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Nourish Up 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 162funders 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