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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $729,485 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($282,705). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$92M
Revenue FY2025
15
Funders on record
$729k
Grants received
$471M
Net assets
6/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin79% · top quartile
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($28M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($276M)2018 Revenue 67 ($19M) Expenses 130 ($15M) Net assets 106 ($293M)2019 Revenue 50 ($14M) Expenses 115 ($13M) Net assets 111 ($308M)2020 Revenue 44 ($12M) Expenses 142 ($16M) Net assets 112 ($310M)2021 Revenue 54 ($15M) Expenses 165 ($19M) Net assets 142 ($393M)2022 Revenue 82 ($23M) Expenses 157 ($18M) Net assets 134 ($369M)2023 Revenue 41 ($11M) Expenses 156 ($18M) Net assets 142 ($392M)2024 Revenue 28 ($7.8M) Expenses 166 ($19M) Net assets 156 ($430M)2025 Revenue 332 ($92M) Expenses 171 ($19M) Net assets 171 ($471M)
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Revenue (332)Expenses (171)Net assets (171)Peer revenue range

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

0% of THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$16M
17
$3.8M
18
$852k
19
$3.8M
20
$3.9M
21
$4.9M
22
$6.3M
23
$11M
24
$73M
25
0.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $58k → $20k.

6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)57% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $204k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC raised.

From the IRS filings of THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND 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 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

100% 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 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC.

39%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 48% · 2019 86% · 2020 50% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 60%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

11% of THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

57% of THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC'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 $313k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 6 states.

NJ
CT
RI
MO
DE
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

18
20
23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $416k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 15 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND 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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
79%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 6 related entities

  • Uncg Excellence Foundation · exempt
  • The University of North Carolina at Greensboro · exempt
  • Weatherspoon Art Museum Council · exempt
  • Capital Facilities Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Uncg Endowment Partners LP · partnership

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC?
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $729,485 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($282,705). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $729,485 in grants to THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC?
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $282,705 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND 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 15funders 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