North Carolina · Nonprofit
The Abundance Foundation Inc
The Abundance Foundation Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $772,251 to it, the largest being CAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION ($288,135). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $0
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $772k
- Net assets
- $184k
What The Abundance Foundation Inc does
Mission
To promote community resilience through health, sustainability, culture, and equality.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Joy of Movement Joy of Movement continues to offer classes and events to enhance personal well-being and meaningful connections in the community through movement, music, and meditation. 2021 was a difficult year due to the pandemic, and JOM did its best to adapt. We set up wifi in the studio so that some teachers could continue to offer their classes online. The studio reopened to the public, taking appropriate precautions.
PepperfestThe 2021 PepperFest bounced back after scaling down in 2020 due to the pandemic. We moved the booths to Lorax Lane to hold the 14th Annual celebration of local food, sustainable farms and farmers, as well as the local businesses and community. Many folks attended, and they enjoyed the booths of food, nonprofits, and beverages. The agenda was packed with entertainment and activities for kids as well.
Other Programs Other Programs of Abundance in 2021 included the 6th annual Death Faire and Chatham Social Justice Exchange. In addition to Joy of Movement and Tall Grass Food Box, Abundance NC fiscally sponsored Fayetteville Labyrinth Project, Piedmont Fibershed, Piedmont Earth Skills, Be Good to Yourself, and heart2heart.
Tall Grass Food BoxTall Grass Food Box is a platform to support and encourage the sustainability of Black farmers, by increasing their visibility and securing space for them in the local marketplace. In a time where small businesses have become even more vulnerable, it is important that we double down in our support of Black farmers. In this vein, we seek to build a capacity for self-determination within our local food systems. Every other week we pull together fresh produce from Black Farmers across NC and put it together in a box to pick up. Each box has enough to feed 1-2 people or an individual who cooks more 3 or more times a week.
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
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 2017 to 2018, from $455k to $194k (−57%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 2% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of The Abundance Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $45k → $73k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 The Abundance Foundation 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
The Abundance Foundation Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 The Abundance Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 57% · 2019 98% · 2020 42% · 2021 43% · 2022 79% · 2023 74% — 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.
How long its funders stay
45% of The Abundance Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
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
64% of The Abundance Foundation Inc'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. $261k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
The Abundance Foundation Inc has grown faster than half of the 7,253 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,253 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like The Abundance Foundation Inc
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.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Abundance Foundation Inc?
- The Abundance Foundation Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $772,251 to it, the largest being CAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION ($288,135). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Abundance Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $772,251 in grants to The Abundance Foundation Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Abundance Foundation Inc?
- CAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $288,135 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Abundance Foundation 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 15 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