North Carolina · Nonprofit
SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE
SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,888,698 to it, the largest being The Bo H Holmgreen Foundation ($1,161,767). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,964 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,964 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Fca Foundationshared funders
- The Yum-O Organization Incportfolio match
- Farestartportfolio match
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.
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.
100% of SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $192k → $157k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE’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
SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 92% · 2019 100% · 2020 67% · 2021 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
63% of SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE'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. $55k 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.
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.
- Fca Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
- The Yum-O Organization Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farestartportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Abe & Kathyrn Selsky Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nielsen-Massey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ann B Zekauskas Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cdvsj Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Association for Anatomyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Helen & Robert Cahill Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mental Research Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hunger Related Eventsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sherman Rotary Club Charitable and Scholarship Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE?
- SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,888,698 to it, the largest being The Bo H Holmgreen Foundation ($1,161,767). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,888,698 in grants to SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE?
- The Bo H Holmgreen Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,161,767 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE 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 5funders 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