North Carolina · Nonprofit
Tri-County Community College Foundation
Tri-County Community College Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,593,609 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($2,444,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Tri-County Community College Foundation does
Mission
TCCCFs purpose is to aid, support and promote teaching, research and services in various educational, scientific, scholarly, professional, artistic and creative endeavors of Tri-County Community College.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Workforce Housing Initiative: In 2024 the Foundation received significant funding from Dogwood Health Trust for the Workforce Housing Initiative. The Initiative will create a construction workforce to build affordable single-family housing in Cherokee County, NC, while giving students hands-on job training. The property was acquired through the Foundation and was subdivided into 17 lots where 17 homes will be built.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Tri-County Community College Foundation awarded 11 need-based scholarships during the 2024-2025 fiscal year, totaling $6,450. The funds were given to low-income students in high-cost programs in an effort to alleviate their financial burden and help them pursue their educational and career aspirations.
$22,867 spentof which $6,450 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,867.
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 2024 to 2025, from $501k to $2.1M (+318%).
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: 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Tri-County Community College Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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 broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $619k.
From the IRS filings of Tri-County Community College Foundation’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
Tri-County Community College Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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% · 2020 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — 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 Tri-County Community College Foundation'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. 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
Tri-County Community College Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Tri-County Community College Foundation
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.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Tri-County Community College · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Tri-County Community College Foundation: 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 Tri-County Community College Foundation?
- Tri-County Community College Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,593,609 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($2,444,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Tri-County Community College Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $2,593,609 in grants to Tri-County Community College Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Tri-County Community College Foundation?
- DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,444,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tri-County Community College Foundation 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6 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