Home › United States Charities in North Carolina Registered 51,902 charities
Total income $71.08bn latest returns
Median income $188k per charity
Top-10 share 37% of income
Overview North Carolina has 51,902 registered charities on the current register extract, of which 13,881 reported income in their latest return. Together they reported $71.08bn of income. The median charity took in $188k, while the largest tenth reported $3.0m or more, so a typical donation goes to a far smaller organisation than the household names at the top of this list.
Income is concentrated: the ten largest charities account for 37% of the total. Across the whole group, 726 charities have a note from the register, such as overdue accounts or three years of spending above income, and those notes are shown on each charity's page.
4,802 of the charities with reported income (35%) took in under $100k a year. Pages for the 9,291 charities with several years of accounts include their full income history, a comparison with similar-sized peers and a breakdown of where the money comes from.
Largest by income # Charity Location Income 1 Duke University Health System Inc Durham, NC $4.67bn 2 Novant Health Inc Winston Salem, NC $4.02bn 3 Duke University Durham, NC $3.75bn 4 North Carolina Baptist Hospital Winstonsalem, NC $2.97bn 5 Wakemed Raleigh, NC $2.07bn 6 Presbyterian Hospital Winston Salem, NC $1.96bn 7 The Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation Greensboro, NC $1.93bn 8 Pitt County Memorial Hospital Inc Greenville, NC $1.77bn 9 Gothic Corporation Durham, NC $1.72bn 10 Rex Hospital Inc Raleigh, NC $1.62bn 11 Forsyth Memorial Hospital Inc Winston Salem, NC $1.44bn 12 Cumberland County Hospital System Inc Fayetteville, NC $1.26bn 13 Research Triangle Institute RTP, NC $1.25bn 14 Wake Forest University Health Sciences Winstonsalem, NC $1.22bn 15 Samaritans Purse Boone, NC $1.20bn 16 First Health of the Carolinas Inc Pinehurst, NC $1.17bn 17 Family Health International Durham, NC $836.4m 18 Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc Gastonia, NC $709.9m 19 Atlantic Coast Conference Charlotte, NC $706.6m 20 Wake Forest University Winstonsalem, NC $686.9m 21 Foundation for the Carolinas Charlotte, NC $538.0m 22 Sandhills Center for Mental Health Developmental Disabilities & Subst West End, NC $532.9m 23 High Point Regional Health High Point, NC $508.7m 24 East Carolina Health Greenville, NC $504.1m 25 Gothic HSP Corporation Durham, NC $451.9m 26 Summit Foundation Charlotte, NC $447.1m 27 High Point University High Point, NC $422.1m 28 Elon University Elon, NC $389.1m 29 Alamance Regional Medical Center Greensboro, NC $376.2m 30 Wayne Memorial Hospital Inc Goldsboro, NC $353.3m 31 University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Inc Greenville, NC $307.0m 32 Blue Ridge Healthcare Hospitals Inc Morganton, NC $306.1m 33 Southeastern Regional Medical Center Lumberton, NC $304.1m 34 Vidant Medical Group LLC Greenville, NC $301.1m 35 L C Ind Inc Durham, NC $295.7m 36 Fletcher Hospital Inc Hendersonvlle, NC $289.7m 37 Scotland Memorial Hospital Incorporated Laurinburg, NC $273.9m 38 Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina Inc Raleigh, NC $234.0m 39 Campbell University Buies Creek, NC $229.2m 40 Community Care of North Carolina Inc Garner, NC $216.2m 41 Davidson College Davidson, NC $202.4m 42 Duke University Affiliated Physicans Inc Durham, NC $201.0m 43 Caldwell Memorial Hospital Inc Lenoir, NC $192.0m 44 Wingate University Wingate, NC $167.7m 45 Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center Winstonsalem, NC $163.4m 46 Lenoir Memorial Hospital Inc Kinston, NC $162.5m 47 Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital Inc Elkin, NC $158.3m 48 Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc Charlotte, NC $156.5m 49 Caromont Medical Group Inc Gastonia, NC $155.3m 50 NC State Investment Fund Inc Raleigh, NC $147.8m 51 WRMC Hospital Operating Corporation N Wilkesboro, NC $143.8m 52 Legacy Healthcare Services Inc Raleigh, NC $140.2m 53 Columbus Regional Healthcare System Whiteville, NC $138.1m 54 Mana Nutritive Aid Products Inc Matthews, NC $137.9m 55 The Outer Bank Hospital Inc Greenville, NC $128.7m 56 Harnett Health System Inc Dunn, NC $126.3m 57 Center for Creative Leadership Greensboro, NC $123.5m 58 Moses Cone Affiliated Physicians Inc Greensboro, NC $122.2m 59 North Carolina Partnership for Children Inc Raleigh, NC $121.7m 60 Gaston Family Health Services Inc Gastonia, NC $118.0m
Charities by income band $under 10k 12th pct
757 charities
$10k-100k 65th pct
4,045 charities
$100k-1m 100th pct
6,271 charities
$1m-10m 36th pct
2,250 charities
$10m-100m 8th pct
492 charities
$100m+ 1st pct
66 charities
Registrations by year 0 946 1,893 2,839 3,785 00 New registrations: $620 00 01 New registrations: $584 01 02 New registrations: $701 02 03 New registrations: $647 03 04 New registrations: $746 04 05 New registrations: $704 05 06 New registrations: $691 06 07 New registrations: $727 07 08 New registrations: $673 08 09 New registrations: $808 09 10 New registrations: $790 10 11 New registrations: $798 11 12 New registrations: $736 12 13 New registrations: $841 13 14 New registrations: $1,964 14 15 New registrations: $1,413 15 16 New registrations: $1,627 16 17 New registrations: $1,483 17 18 New registrations: $1,493 18 19 New registrations: $1,859 19 20 New registrations: $1,595 20 21 New registrations: $1,776 21 22 New registrations: $2,530 22 23 New registrations: $2,507 23 24 New registrations: $3,737 24 25 New registrations: $3,785 25 26 New registrations: $3,149 26 New registrations By cause Other charitable purposes 10,384 Religion 7,992 Poverty relief 6,404 Education and training 6,129 Arts, culture, heritage and science 3,503 Health and saving lives 2,961 Amateur sport and recreation 2,590 Grant-making and general purposes 2,392 Children and youth development 1,975 Community and economic development 1,947 Animals 1,463 Armed forces, emergency and public safety 1,107 Housing and shelter 995 Environment and conservation 738 Human rights and equality 737 Overseas aid and international 585