North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE SERVING CUP D/B/A BUILDING INDEPENDENCE
THE SERVING CUP D/B/A BUILDING INDEPENDENCE (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,228 to it, the largest being GIPSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE SERVING CUP D/B/A BUILDING INDEPENDENCE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,426 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,426 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- William C Ethridge Foundation Incshared funders
- Indiana Affordable Housing Council Incportfolio match
- Community Action Pioneer Valleyportfolio 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.
99% of THE SERVING CUP D/B/A BUILDING INDEPENDENCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $5k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 SERVING CUP D/B/A BUILDING INDEPENDENCE’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 SERVING CUP D/B/A BUILDING INDEPENDENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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
100% of THE SERVING CUP D/B/A BUILDING INDEPENDENCE'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. $228 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
- William C Ethridge Foundation Incshared fundersNC · backs 11 organizations that share your funders
- Indiana Affordable Housing Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Action Pioneer Valleyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Robert & Nancy Amato Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Idaho Foodbank Warehouseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Keep Austin Fedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Enterline Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alta Good Deeds Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Huntsville Rehabilitation Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barrington Area Comm Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Spectrum Health Systems 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 SERVING CUP D/B/A BUILDING INDEPENDENCE
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.
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SERVING CUP D/B/A BUILDING INDEPENDENCE: 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 SERVING CUP D/B/A BUILDING INDEPENDENCE?
- THE SERVING CUP D/B/A BUILDING INDEPENDENCE (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,228 to it, the largest being GIPSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SERVING CUP D/B/A BUILDING INDEPENDENCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,228 in grants to THE SERVING CUP D/B/A BUILDING INDEPENDENCE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SERVING CUP D/B/A BUILDING INDEPENDENCE?
- GIPSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SERVING CUP D/B/A BUILDING INDEPENDENCE 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 2funders 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