North Carolina · Nonprofit
The Clark James Foundation Inc
The Clark James Foundation Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $509,774 to it, the largest being Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ($509,774). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The Clark James Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,523 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,523 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Ncf Charitable Trustportfolio match
- Waterstone Support Foundation Incportfolio match
- The Talbert Family Foundationportfolio 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.
0% of The Clark James Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $375k → $52k.
From the IRS filings of The Clark James Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of The Clark James 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.
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.
- Ncf Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Waterstone Support Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Talbert Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Helping Hands Support Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Summer Rest Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scott & Jennifer Andrews Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jct Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bob and Ruthie Harrell Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Greg and India Keith Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kingdom Alliance Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- OneShare Internationalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Masonic Charities of Delaware 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 The Clark James Foundation 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Clark James Foundation 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.
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 The Clark James Foundation Inc?
- The Clark James Foundation Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $509,774 to it, the largest being Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ($509,774). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Clark James Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $509,774 in grants to The Clark James Foundation Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Clark James Foundation Inc?
- Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc is the largest funder on record, with $509,774 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Clark James 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.
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 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing