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North Carolina Medical Society

Raleigh, NC · EIN 56-2096193. Reported 28 grants totalling $345,800 to 20 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

20organizations funded
$10,350median reported grant
$345,800granted, 2021-2024
33%of grantees funded again the next year
14%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For North Carolina Medical Society, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E80) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 20 distinct organizations, with 14% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 33% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 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 $10,350. Half of what it reported fell between $6,300 and $17,850; the smallest was $5,100 and the largest $50,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
13 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
14 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Raleigh Medical GroupRaleigh, NC$50,000112024
Hospice of the Piedmont IncHigh Point, NC$46,800222023
Charlotte Gastroenterology & HepatologyHuntersville, NC$36,000222023
The Mental Health Fund IncHickory, NC$21,050222023
Orthopaedic Specialists of North Carolina PaWake Forest, NC$20,700222023
Mid-Atlantic Emergency Medical Associates PllcCharlotte, NC$19,800222023
Urology Specialists of the CarolinasCharlotte, NC$17,850112024
Urology Specialists of the Carolinas PllcCharlotte, NC$17,850112023
Hospice of the Piedmont IncCharlottesvle, VA$16,000112021
Burlington Pediatrics PaBurlington, NC$12,600222023
Charlotte DermatologyCharlotte, NC$11,700112024
The Family Health CentersAsheville, NC$11,550112022
Cary Pediatric Center PaCary, NC$11,100222023
Neurology and Pain Management Center PllcLillington, NC$10,800222023
Raleigh Capitol EntRaleigh, NC$10,650112022
Looking Glass Eye CenterBrevard, NC$8,700112024
Carolina Internal MedicineAsheville, NC$6,900112022
Triangle DermatologyDurham, NC$5,400112024
Nash Ob Gyn AssociatesRocky Mount, NC$5,250112024
Ashville ArthritisAsheville, NC$5,100112022

8 of 20 (40%) 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 kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 1 of 20 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.

Mental Health
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20211$16,000$16,000
202212$123,600$10,125
20239$107,300$10,350
20246$98,900$10,200

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

95% 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.

North Carolina
$330K
Virginia
$16K

Down to the city

Charlotte, NC
$67K
Raleigh, NC
$61K
High Point, NC
$47K
Huntersville, NC
$36K
Asheville, NC
$24K
Hickory, NC
$21K

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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.

American Endowment Foundation3 shared recipientsRheumatology Research Foundation2 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc2 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc2 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund2 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program2 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,350 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
  4. 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 North Carolina Medical Society's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 6 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 700 Spring Forest Road 400, Raleigh, NC, 27609.

EIN 56-2096193 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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