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Foundations That Fund Food, Agriculture & Nutrition in North Carolina

Imperigo has identified 371 funders that made 2,885 grants totaling $237.8M to 215 food, agriculture & nutrition organizations in North Carolina, with a median grant of $15K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Food, Agriculture & Nutrition Funding in North Carolina

Total granted $237.8M
Funders 371
Grants 2,885
Organizations funded 215

Top Funders — page 2 of 4

26. Henderson County United Way Inc
11 grants to 3 organizations · largest $36K · through 2024 · 5.4% of their giving
$226K
27. Summit Rotary Foundation Inc
5 grants to 2 organizations · largest $18K · through 2024 · 17.0% of their giving
$70K
28. United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc
12 grants to 6 organizations · largest $277K · through 2024 · 1.2% of their giving
$969K
29. Brunswick County Farm Bureau Inc
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $12K · through 2025 · 38.2% of their giving
$56K
30. United Way of Scotland County Inc
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $30K · through 2024 · 10.4% of their giving
$105K
31. North Carolina Crop Improvement Association Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $50K · through 2025 · 26.1% of their giving
$50K
32. The Jimmy Carroll Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $33K · through 2025 · 16.2% of their giving
$58K
33. The Landfall Foundation Inc
17 grants to 4 organizations · largest $30K · through 2025 · 5.5% of their giving
$167K
34. Deerfield Charitable Foundation
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $160K · through 2023 · 4.9% of their giving
$175K
35. Social Venture Partners Charlotte Inc
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $20K · through 2024 · 11.2% of their giving
$68K
36. Columbus County Farm Bureau Inc
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $11K · through 2025 · 100.0% of their giving
$34K
37. United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc
22 grants to 9 organizations · largest $75K · through 2024 · 1.5% of their giving
$441K
38. CAHEC Foundation
6 grants to 3 organizations · largest $15K · through 2024 · 8.7% of their giving
$76K
39. Buncombe County Farm Bureau Inc
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $10K · through 2025 · 75.6% of their giving
$31K
40. High Country United Way
5 grants to 2 organizations · largest $16K · through 2023 · 10.3% of their giving
$56K
41. United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc
10 grants to 3 organizations · largest $30K · through 2023 · 3.6% of their giving
$150K
42. Carolina Hurricanes Foundation
5 grants to 5 organizations · largest $50K · through 2024 · 4.2% of their giving
$120K
43. Storehouse Food Pantry
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $12K · through 2025 · 100.0% of their giving
$24K
44. The Forest At Duke Inc
5 grants to 2 organizations · largest $51K · through 2022 · 2.7% of their giving
$165K
45. Full Belly Project LTD
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $14K · through 2020 · 16.9% of their giving
$25K
46. The Golden Leaf Inc
15 grants to 10 organizations · largest $250K · through 2024
$1.5M
47. The Blackbaud Giving Fund
31 grants to 17 organizations · largest $390K · through 2024
$2.5M
48. Cumberland Community Foundation Inc
7 grants to 2 organizations · largest $177K · through 2024 · 1.1% of their giving
$316K
58. Camber Foundation
6 grants to 3 organizations · largest $50K · through 2024
$235K
59. Give Lively Foundation Inc
10 grants to 4 organizations · largest $196K · through 2025
$458K

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to food, agriculture & nutrition work in North Carolina, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 14 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.

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About This Data

A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering food, agriculture & nutrition work, with an address in North Carolina. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.

Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable food, agriculture & nutrition funding in North Carolina, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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