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Elizabeth City Foundation Committee

Raleigh, NC · EIN 23-7076018. Reported 108 grants totalling $776,086 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$4,850median grant
$776,086granted, 2021-2024
41organizations funded
70%of grantees funded again the next year
$4,301,839assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Elizabeth City Foundation Committee did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $4,850. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $10,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $29,100. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
2 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
52 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
21 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
31 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Wake Forest UniversityWinston Salem, NC$72,627332024
American Red CrossElizabeth City, NC$66,500442024
Arts of the AlbemarleElizabeth City, NC$54,000332024
Community Care Collaborative Albemarle Area United WayElizabeth City, NC$51,154442024
Boys & Girls Club of the AlbemarleElizabeth City, NC$51,000442024
The Salvation Army of the Albemarle RegionElizabeth City, NY$42,500442024
University of North CarolinaChapel Hill, NC$41,600442024
Albemarle Hopeline IncElizabeth Cty, NC$39,238332024
SPCA of Northeastern North CarolinaElizabeth City, NC$38,887442024
Food Bank of the AlbemarleElizabeth City, NC$33,815332023
East Carolina UniversityGreenville, NC$33,250442024
Friends of the Museum of the Albermarle FundElizabeth City, NC$28,711332024
Nc State UniversityRaleigh, NC$20,950442024
Elizabeth City State UniversityElizabeth City, NC$19,603442024
Boy Scouts of AmericaVirginia Beach, VA$19,500442024
Nenc Blue Line CharitiesElizabeth City, NC$15,000442024
College of the AlbemarleElizabeth City, NC$14,125442024
Nc A&t UniversityGreensboro, NC$13,800442024
Elizabeth City Habitat for HumanityElizabeth City, NC$12,500222024
Port DiscoverElizabeth City, NC$12,500332024
Unc WilmingtonWilmington, NC$11,380332023
Dream Hunt and Fish FoundationElizabeth City, NC$8,500222024
Wake Technical Community CollegeRaleigh, NC$7,650442024
Ccc-Albemarle Area United WayElizabeth City, NC$7,346112022
Girl Scouts of the Colonial CoastChesapeake, VA$7,000222023
Appalachain State UniversityBoone, NC$6,250332023
Milligan UniversityMilligan University, TN$5,550332024
Sawyer's Creek Baptist ChurchCamden, NC$5,000112023
Pitt Community CollegeGreenville, NC$4,750222022
Johnson UniversityKnoxville, TN$4,600222024
Campbell UniversityBuies Creek, NC$4,500222023
Souls MinistryElizabeth City, NC$4,000112023
Culinary Institute of VirginiaNorfolk, VA$3,900112021
Liberty UniversityLynchburg, VA$3,600222024
First United Method ChurchHickory, NC$2,500112023
University of Mount OliveMt Olive, NC$2,500112024
James Madison UniversityHarrisonburg, VA$2,200112024
Unc - School of the ArtsWinstonsalem, NC$1,500112021
Green Saves GreenElizabeth City, NC$1,000112021
Regent UniversityVirginia Beach, VA$600112023
Converse UniversitySpartanburg, SC$500112023

30 of 41 (73%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 70%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 45 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
25 grants
Youth Development
6 grants
Food & Nutrition
4 grants
Animal Welfare
4 grants
Science & Technology
3 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202127$223,607$5,000
202222$160,887$5,625
202333$181,459$3,500
202426$210,133$5,050

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 88% of this one's giving went to organizations in North Carolina. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

North Carolina
$686K
New York
$42K
Virginia
$37K
Tennessee
$10K
South Carolina
$500

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $4,850. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in North Carolina.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Elizabeth City Foundation Committee's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 29522, Raleigh, NC, 27626. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 23-7076018 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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