North Carolina · Nonprofit
QUEEN CITY FORWARD
QUEEN CITY FORWARD (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,300 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($115,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2017
- $204k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $136k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Queen City Forward does
Mission
Queen City Forward enchances the growth of early stage, socially conscious organizations through the accelerator program. The accelerator gives companies access to mentors, operational expertise and resources.
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
Impact programs are specifically designed for entrepreneurs with promising business ideas. A rich network of mentors and coaches support the participants in a fast-paced program of hands-on business development and market testing to move products or services from prototype to launch.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $106k → $30k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 QUEEN CITY FORWARD’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
QUEEN CITY FORWARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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 QUEEN CITY FORWARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
95% of QUEEN CITY FORWARD'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 $7k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $129k 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.
Organizations like QUEEN CITY FORWARD
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
24% 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 QUEEN CITY FORWARD: 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 QUEEN CITY FORWARD?
- QUEEN CITY FORWARD (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,300 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($115,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does QUEEN CITY FORWARD have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $136,300 in grants to QUEEN CITY FORWARD, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of QUEEN CITY FORWARD?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like QUEEN CITY FORWARD 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 4 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