North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE EMPIRE GIVES BACK
THE EMPIRE GIVES BACK (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being HARRIS GLOVER FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE EMPIRE GIVES BACK has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,771 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education 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.
- United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Inclocalportfolio match
- Executive Service Corps of the Greater Triangle Inclocalportfolio match
- Dhs Charitable Trust Uad May 21 1965shared funders
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE EMPIRE GIVES BACK’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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE EMPIRE GIVES BACK's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Inclocalportfolio matchNC · funds 61 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Executive Service Corps of the Greater Triangle Inclocalportfolio matchNC · funds 28 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Dhs Charitable Trust Uad May 21 1965shared fundersNC · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- Arts Sciences & Cultural Council of Charlotte Mecklenburg Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Durham Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Council of Fayetteville Cumberland County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts & Science Council Charlotte/Mecklenburg Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bca Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Wilmington and New Hanover Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nc Counts Coalitionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- W Trent Ragland Jr Foundationshared funderslocalNC · backs 4 organizations that share your funders · funds 54 organizations near you
- United Arts Council of Greensboro 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 EMPIRE GIVES BACK
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 THE EMPIRE GIVES BACK: 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 EMPIRE GIVES BACK?
- THE EMPIRE GIVES BACK (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being HARRIS GLOVER FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE EMPIRE GIVES BACK have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,000 in grants to THE EMPIRE GIVES BACK, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE EMPIRE GIVES BACK?
- HARRIS GLOVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE EMPIRE GIVES BACK 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 2019–2024), 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. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing