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SHARE Charlotte

SHARE Charlotte (North Carolina) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,421,013 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($703,946). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$821k
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$475k
10/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 61%
01What it does

What SHARE Charlotte does

Mission

SHARE Charlotte is building a better Charlotte by empowering nonprofits and helping people invest in their communities in ways that matter most to them.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. SHARE Charlotte provides a one-stop shop for the community to find and connect with 850+ nonprofits that serve Mecklenburg County through our online platform - sharecharlotte.org. Our mission is to Power Social Good in our city by connecting Charlotte neighbors to nonprofits and strengthening our nonprofit community. Over the past 12 years, we have inspired over $68M in giving to local nonprofits and 36K volunteer opportunities.

    $530,573 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $530,573.

02The 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 ($235k) Expenses 100 ($259k) Net assets 100 ($59k)2018 Revenue 158 ($372k) Expenses 120 ($310k) Net assets 202 ($119k)2019 Revenue 165 ($388k) Expenses 143 ($369k) Net assets 243 ($143k)2020 Revenue 286 ($672k) Expenses 199 ($514k) Net assets 513 ($302k)2021 Revenue 187 ($440k) Expenses 147 ($381k) Net assets 603 ($355k)2022 Revenue 185 ($434k) Expenses 206 ($534k) Net assets 433 ($255k)2023 Revenue 240 ($565k) Expenses 204 ($526k) Net assets 506 ($298k)2024 Revenue 238 ($560k) Expenses 224 ($579k) Net assets 474 ($279k)2025 Revenue 350 ($821k) Expenses 242 ($626k) Net assets 806 ($475k)
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Revenue (350)Expenses (242)Net assets (806)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $289k to $475k (+64%).

$70k
$123k
$254k
$356k
$355k
$255k
$298k
$289k
$475k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

83% of SHARE Charlotte’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,454 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$24k
’17
$61k
’18
$19k
’19
$158k
’20
$59k
’21
−$100k
’22
$38k
’23
−$19k
’24
$195k
’25
8.9
months of
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.

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Listed698991010915
Joined·+5+3+4+4+3+1+5+6
No longer listed·24342160
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $80k → $271k.

7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 SHARE Charlotte’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 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

SHARE Charlotte leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

60% 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 SHARE Charlotte.

50%
largest funder
80%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 92% · 2019 47% · 2020 66% · 2021 52% · 2022 30% · 2023 43% — 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

38% of SHARE Charlotte's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

53% of SHARE Charlotte'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 $672k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

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NY
NC
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GA

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. $749k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SHARE Charlotte runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,668 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Months of reserve8.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like SHARE Charlotte

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 4%Fundraising 11%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

85%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHARE Charlotte: 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 SHARE Charlotte?
SHARE Charlotte (North Carolina) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,421,013 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($703,946). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SHARE Charlotte have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,421,013 in grants to SHARE Charlotte, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SHARE Charlotte?
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $703,946 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHARE Charlotte 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing