North Carolina · Nonprofit
WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC
WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,003,039 to it, the largest being The Golden LEAF Inc ($1,841,539). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,812 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,812 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- United Way of Wayne County Inclocalportfolio match
- Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce Community Betterment Foundationportfolio match
- Coalfield Development Corporationportfolio 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 96% · 2018 80% · 2019 28% · 2020 69% · 2021 45% · 2022 49% · 2023 97% · 2024 96% · 2025 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% 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.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE 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
WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 100% · 2019 94% · 2020 57% · 2021 38% · 2022 83% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.
“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 WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC'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.
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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Wayne County Inclocalportfolio matchNC · funds 24 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce Community Betterment Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coalfield Development Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Enterprise Florida Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Millennium Fund CO Winston-Salem Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nc Ideaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Palmettopride the Governor's Council on Beautification & Litterportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Twin City Development Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Injoy Thrift Goldsboro InclocalNC · funds 15 organizations near you
- Arts Council of Wayne County InclocalNC · funds 12 organizations near you
- The Partnership for Children of Wayne County InclocalNC · funds 10 organizations near you
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 WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE 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.
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 WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC?
- WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,003,039 to it, the largest being The Golden LEAF Inc ($1,841,539). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $2,003,039 in grants to WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC?
- The Golden LEAF Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,841,539 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WAYNE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE 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 7funders 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