Carolinaeast Foundation
New Bern, NC · EIN 56-1991164. Reported 66 grants totalling $1,321,653 to 33 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 Carolinaeast Foundation, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E99) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 33 distinct organizations, with 39% 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. 36% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $5,200 and the largest $464,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carolinaeast Medical Center | New Bern, NC | $520,075 | 6 | 4 | 2023 |
| Religious Community Services of New Bern Inc | New Bern, NC | $101,283 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hope Clinic | Bayboro, NC | $78,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Secu Family House at Unc Hospitals | Chapel Hill, NC | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Childrens Cancer Partners of the Carolinas Inc | Spartanburg, SC | $51,217 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Raleigh Inc | Raleigh, NC | $49,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Merci Clinic | New Bern, NC | $44,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Miriam Inc | Morehead City, NC | $44,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Backpack Blessings Inc | New Bern, NC | $37,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Young Mens Christian Association of the Triangle Area I | Raleigh, NC | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hope Recovery Homes | Morehead City, NC | $27,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Coastal Womens Shelter Inc | New Bern, NC | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Reviving Lives Ministries of New Bern | New Bern, NC | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Loaves and Fishes Ministry of Beaufort | Beaufort, NC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Realize U 252 Inc | New Bern, NC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Pamlico County Foundation for the Aged Inc | Alliance, NC | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | New Bern, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Voices Together | Chapel Hill, NC | $14,800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Charity Navigator | Union City, NJ | $13,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mount Carmel Helps Inc | Jacksonville, NC | $13,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Promise Place | New Bern, NC | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Crystal Coast Autism Center | Morehead City, NC | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Eastern Carolina Young Mens Christian Association Inc | New Bern, NC | $12,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Crystal Coast Cancer Rehab Center | Morehead City, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina Inc | Raleigh, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pamlico Community College Foundation Inc | Grantsboro, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Craven County Health Department Foundation | New Bern, NC | $9,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bike Box Project | New Bern, NC | $8,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Veterans Employment Base Camp and Organic Garden | New Bern, NC | $8,484 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Township Seven Ems Inc | New Bern, NC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Onslow County Partnership for Children | Jacksonville, NC | $6,044 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Carteret Local Food Network | Gloucester, NC | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
20 of 33 (61%) 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.
- Carolinaeast Medical Center
CONSTRUCTION OF A CANCER CENTER - Religious Community Services
MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - Hope Clinic
PROVIDES MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOR LOW INCOME RESIDENTS - Childrens Cancer Partners of the Carolinas
PROVIDES SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES BATTLING CANCER - Merci Clinic
MEDICAL/DENTAL SERVICES FOR THE UNINSURED - Children's Cancer Partners
TRAVEL ASSISTANCE AND FAMLIY SUPPORT FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER PATIENTS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 24 of 33 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 | 17 | $689,684 | $12,500 |
| 2021 | 11 | $143,225 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 18 | $243,802 | $10,500 |
| 2023 | 20 | $244,942 | $10,000 |
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
94% 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 $10,000 -- 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 Carolinaeast Foundation'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: 2007-B Neuse Boulevard B, New Bern, NC, 28560.
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