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RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC

RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,099,970 to it, the largest being The Golden LEAF Inc ($113,307,634). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$70M
Revenue FY2025
30
Funders on record
$168M
Grants received
$216M
Net assets
14/30 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 276 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin83% · top quartile
Months of reserve78.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)42% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 276 community improvement 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 ($4.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.8M) Net assets 100 ($65M)2018 Revenue 108 ($4.6M) Expenses 125 ($3.5M) Net assets 109 ($71M)2019 Revenue 174 ($7.4M) Expenses 305 ($8.6M) Net assets 97 ($63M)2020 Revenue 140 ($6.0M) Expenses 166 ($4.7M) Net assets 96 ($63M)2021 Revenue 1119 ($48M) Expenses 217 ($6.1M) Net assets 172 ($112M)2022 Revenue 266 ($11M) Expenses 263 ($7.4M) Net assets 167 ($109M)2023 Revenue 501 ($21M) Expenses 416 ($12M) Net assets 178 ($116M)2024 Revenue 1421 ($61M) Expenses 465 ($13M) Net assets 247 ($161M)2025 Revenue 1638 ($70M) Expenses 413 ($12M) Net assets 332 ($216M)
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Revenue (1638)Expenses (413)Net assets (332)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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 47% · 2018 7% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 4% · 2022 9% · 2023 54% · 2024 79% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

80% of RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 696 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.5M
17
$1.1M
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$1.2M
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$1.3M
20
$42M
21
$4.0M
22
$9.7M
23
$48M
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$58M
25
79
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $3.3M → $3.5M.

8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)12% 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 RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC’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

RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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 RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC.

67%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 81% · 2019 98% · 2020 33% · 2021 98% · 2022 50% · 2023 36%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

33% of RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

80% of RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

MA
IN
MO
VA
NC
DC
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. $20M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

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 30 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 RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.

Federal$1.5M
grants $1.5Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Appalachian Regional Commission$1.0M
  • Department of Agriculture$543k

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 RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER 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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 22%Fundraising 1%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

89%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Rural Center Ventures LLC · disregarded
  • Imaf Common LLC · disregarded
  • Cornersquare Community Capital LLC · disregarded
  • Thread Capital Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER 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 RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC?
RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $168,099,970 to it, the largest being The Golden LEAF Inc ($113,307,634). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $168,099,970 in grants to RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC?
The Golden LEAF Inc is the largest funder on record, with $113,307,634 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER 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 30funders 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