Big Rock Foundation Inc
Morehead City, NC · EIN 56-2189146. Reported 53 grants totalling $879,500 to 25 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Big Rock Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 25 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 92% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $8,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $20,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $107,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Coastal Plain Inc | Winterville, NC | $111,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Carteret County Public School Foundation | Beaufort, NC | $107,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| North Carolina Symphony Society Inc | Raleigh, NC | $68,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Carteret County Historical Society Inc | Morehead City, NC | $55,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| St Egbert's Catholic School | Morehead City, NC | $53,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Carteret County General Hospital Foundation Corporation | Morehead City, NC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Eastern Carolina Council BSA | Kinston, NC | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc | Raleigh, NC | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bridge Downeast | Harkers Is, NC | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Marthas Mission Cupboard Inc | Morehead City, NC | $31,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hope Mission of Carteret County Inc | Morehead City, NC | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Broad Street Clinic Foundation | Morehead City, NC | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Carteret Community College Foundation Inc | Morehead City, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ocean Foundation | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Another Perspective | Wilmington, NC | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Crystal Coast Hospice House | Newport, NC | $22,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Easter Seals Ucp North Carolina & Virginia Inc | Raleigh, NC | $22,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Camp Albemarle | New Bern, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Carteret Community Theatre Inc | Morehead City, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Make a Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina Inc | Raleigh, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Misplaced Mutts | Newport, NC | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Foundation for Shackleford Horses Inc | Beaufort, NC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Carobell Inc | Hubert, NC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Take a Kid Fishing | Morehead City, NC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Family Promise of Carteret County | Morehead City, NC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
11 of 25 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Carteret County Public School Foundation
PROVIDE FUNDING TO ALLOW WCHS TO RESURFACE PRACTICE FIELD & UPGRADE WEIGHT ROOM, ECHS TO UPGRADE MEDIA CENTER, BCMS TO RENOVATE PE FIELD - St Egbert's Catholic School
PROVIDE FUNDS TO ASSIST WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN OUTDOOR SCIENCE CENTER. - Boys & Girls Club of Coastal Carolina
TO PROVIDE FUNDS TO ALLOW THE ORGANIZATION TO PURCHASE A MINIBUS TO TRANSPORT STUDENTS. - The Bridge Downeast
TO PROVIDE FUNDING TO ALLOW ORGANIZATION TO REPLACE HVAC UNIT AND TO ASSIST WITH MUCH NEEDED REPAIRS ON ROOF AND BUILDING. - History Museum of Carteret County (the History Place)
TO PROVIDE FUNDING TO ENABLE THE ORGANIZATION TO HAVE A HISTORICAL VIDEO PRODUCED, PRESERVE THE LOCAL HERITAGE & EDUCATE. - Eastern Carolina Council BSA
TO PROVIDE FUNDING TO THE BSA EASTERN COUNCIL FOR USE TO DEVELOP YOUTH INTO RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 of 25 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 20 | $487,000 | $18,500 |
| 2021 | 9 | $79,500 | $7,500 |
| 2022 | 12 | $153,500 | $7,500 |
| 2023 | 12 | $159,500 | $7,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
97% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $8,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Big Rock Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 710 Evans St, Morehead City, NC, 28557.
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