North Carolina · Nonprofit
UCA Waves
UCA Waves (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,500 to it, the largest being JULIAN GRACE FOUNDATION ($28,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
UCA Waves runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,584 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,584 human services 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.
- Wieboldt Foundationshared funders
- Asian American Futuresportfolio match
- Southeast Asia Resource Action Center Searacportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 UCA Waves’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
UCA Waves leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% 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
26% 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 UCA Waves.
“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
UCA Waves draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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.
- Wieboldt Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 16 organizations that share your funders
- Asian American Futuresportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeast Asia Resource Action Center Searacportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asian Pacific Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asian Resources Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asian & Pacific Islander American Voteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Developmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern Californiaportfolio 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 UCA Waves
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UCA Waves: 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 UCA Waves?
- UCA Waves (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,500 to it, the largest being JULIAN GRACE FOUNDATION ($28,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UCA Waves have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $38,500 in grants to UCA Waves.
- Who is the largest funder of UCA Waves?
- JULIAN GRACE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $28,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UCA Waves 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 2024–2024), 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