North Carolina Electric Membership
Raleigh, NC · EIN 56-0995910. Reported 167 grants totalling $2,512,240 to 58 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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 North Carolina Electric Membership, the IRS classifies it under mutual benefit rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Y22) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 58 distinct organizations, with 10% 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. 78% 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 $12,422. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $16,566; the smallest was $5,200 and the largest $68,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina Agricultural Foundation Inc | Raleigh, NC | $252,500 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina Inc | Raleigh, NC | $148,750 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Energyunited Electric Membership Corporation | Statesville, NC | $144,146 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| North Carolina Chamber | Raleigh, NC | $100,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rural Economic Development Center Inc | Raleigh, NC | $85,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation | Lenoir, NC | $79,594 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus Foundation Inc | Raleigh, NC | $75,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Unc Pembroke | Pembroke, NC | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| North Carolina Agribusiness Council Inc | Cary, NC | $67,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| North Carolina Business Leaders for Education | Cary, NC | $66,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brunswick Electric Membership Corp | Supply, NC | $65,494 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| North Carolina State University Foundation Inc | Raleigh, NC | $63,500 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rutherford Electric Membership | Forest City, NC | $62,714 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Leadership North Carolina Inc | Raleigh, NC | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp | Monroe, NC | $57,650 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jones-Onslow Electric Membership Corporation | Jacksonville, NC | $51,998 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nc A&t University Foundation | Greensboro, NC | $50,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $50,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nreca International Ltd | Arlington, VA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Wake Electric Membership Corp | Wake Forest, NC | $48,258 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| North Carolina Economic Development Association | Raleigh, NC | $47,885 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lumbee River Electric Membership Corporation | Pembroke, NC | $47,558 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Carolina Partnership for Reform Inc | Raleigh, NC | $45,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Southeastern Partnership Inc | Elizabethtown, NC | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| South River Electric Membership Corporation | Dunn, NC | $43,110 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Four County Electric Membership Corp | Burgaw, NC | $41,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Piedmont Electric Membership Corp | Hillsborough, NC | $39,622 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Carteret-Craven Electric Cooperative | Newport, NC | $39,574 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nc Department of Agriculture and Consumer Service | Raleigh, NC | $39,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Haywood Electric Membership Corporation | Waynesville, NC | $37,888 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Randolph Electric Membership Corp | Asheboro, NC | $32,074 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Nc Dept of Agriculture | Raleigh, NC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Surry-Yadkin Electric Membership Corporation | Dobson, NC | $27,810 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| North Carolina Zoological Society Inc | Asheboro, NC | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Unc Charlotte | Charlotte, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tideland Electric Membership Corp | Pantego, NC | $23,574 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Tri-County Electric Membership Corporation | Dudley, NC | $23,390 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pee Dee Electric Membership Corporation | Lilesville, NC | $23,374 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Raleigh, NC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| E4 Carolinas Inc | Charlotte, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Tobacco Farm Life Museum Inc | Kenly, NC | $16,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Cooperative Council of North Carolina | Raleigh, NC | $16,175 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Columbus County Agriculture Fair | Whiteville, NC | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce | Raleigh, NC | $13,665 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Raleigh, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Carolina Common Enterprise | Durham, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Democratic Governors' Association | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| East Coast Greenway Alliance Inc | Durham, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Go Global Nc Council Inc | Wake Forest, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nc Ag Partnership Inc | Raleigh, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation Inc | Raleigh, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Public School Forum of North Carolina Inc | Cary, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House | Greenville, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Carolina Independent Colleges & Universities | Raleigh, NC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Carolina State University | Raleigh, NC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Utility Training and Safety Education Association | Greenville, TX | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Biotechnology Center | Durham, NC | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp | Sanford, NC | $5,487 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
40 of 58 (69%) 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.
- North Carolina Chamber
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 19 of 58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 45 | $604,662 | $12,700 |
| 2022 | 38 | $557,702 | $12,169 |
| 2023 | 47 | $729,554 | $12,257 |
| 2024 | 37 | $620,322 | $12,500 |
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
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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 $12,422 -- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from North Carolina Electric Membership'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.
Address of record on the latest return: 3400 Sumner Boulevard, Raleigh, NC, 27616.
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