North Carolina · Nonprofit
PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY
PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,195 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $515k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $51k
- Net assets
- $315k
What Partnership for a Sustainable Community does
Mission
The purpose of the Partnership for a Sustainable Community is to apply business leadership to address community challenges and opportunities. The partnership supports education, entrepreneurship, economic development, job growth, community development and efforts through providing educational programming, training, leadership development, community convening, research, and technical assistance to community problem solvers and problem-solving organizations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, the partnership organized an intercity visit and leadership conference, taking 70 community and business leaders to ann arbor, michigan for a biennial benchmarking trip. The organization also developed leadership chapel hill carrboro, a multi-month, cohort-based leadership development and civic engagement program for 20 community leaders. The partnership collaborated with the chamber for a greater chapel hill carrboro to launch the campaign for a greater chapel hill-carrboro, a community development initiative focused on: increasing the supply of affordable housing; improving workforce development; and supporting business start-ups and small business growth; additionally, the partnership partnered with the chamber to: present an annual state of the community report; produce a community data book; conduct and report community research (delivering 10+ presentations); and serve as fiscal sponsor for the charitable activities of seven organizations
$340,476 spentof which $6,467 as grants$168,094 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $340,476.
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 2023 to 2024, from $212k to $317k (+50%).
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.
60% of PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Creighton Blackwell
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $12k → $27k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $90k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce). These are real filings, and they are not money PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY raised.
From the IRS filings of PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 93% — 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
77% of PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
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
PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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
- Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY: 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 PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY?
- PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,195 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $51,195 in grants to PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY.
- Who is the largest funder of PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY?
- DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARTNERSHIP FOR A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY 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 6 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