How much does Center for Responsible Lending give?

Center for Responsible Lending reported 11 itemized grants totaling $145,000, out of $158,166 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Center for Responsible Lending fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (24%), Public Benefit (18%), Human Services (16%).

Who are Center for Responsible Lending's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Community Economic Development Association of Michigan ($106k), Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Inc ($93k), Earn Inc ($75k).

Does Center for Responsible Lending fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Center for Responsible Lending?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Annie E Casey Foundation Inc, Community Catalyst Inc, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund.

Where is Center for Responsible Lending based?

Center for Responsible Lending is based in NC.

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North Carolina · Public charity

Center for Responsible Lending

Promoting financial fairness and economic opportunity for all, ending abusive lending practices.

$158k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 11
Itemized grants FY2024: 12
Organizations funded FY2023: 42%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $145k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $50,000
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 22; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 10
Total assets, FY2024: $11M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Center for Responsible Lending funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Community ImprovementPublic BenefitCrime & LegalHuman ServicesPhilanthropySocial ScienceOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	11	$145k	18%
FY2023	12	$160k	42%
FY2022	15	$190k	27%
FY2021	16	$185k	50%
FY2020	17	$197k	53%
FY2019	19	$294k	16%
FY2018	22	$270k	64%
FY2017	11	$109k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$376kPublic Benefit$285kHuman Services$256kCrime & Legal$156kPhilanthropy$97kReligion$93kSocial Science$89kHousing & Shelter$67kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Community Economic Development Association of Michigan	$106,000	6	3%
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Inc	$92,720	6	n/a
Earn Inc	$75,000	2	1%
Maine Center for Economic Policy	$74,850	4	4%
New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc	$72,000	5	1%
National Baptist Convention USA In	$70,000	5	n/a
Hacienda Community Development Corporation	$67,376	3	1%
Georgia Watch	$63,254	4	8%
National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development	$60,000	5	0%
Southwest Center for Economic Integrity	$55,000	4	22%

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All grantees of Center for Responsible Lending by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Community Economic Development Association of Michigan	$106,000	6	3%
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Inc	$92,720	6	n/a
Earn Inc	$75,000	2	1%
Maine Center for Economic Policy	$74,850	4	4%
New Jersey Citizen Action Education Fund Inc	$72,000	5	1%
National Baptist Convention USA In	$70,000	5	n/a
Hacienda Community Development Corporation	$67,376	3	1%
Georgia Watch	$63,254	4	8%
National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development	$60,000	5	0%
Southwest Center for Economic Integrity	$55,000	4	22%
The Economic Progress Institute	$50,000	3	3%
Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition Inc	$45,000	4	1%
The Ida and Asset Building Collaborative of North Carolina	$42,000	2	12%
Center for Public Justice	$42,000	4	1%
Veterans Education Success Inc	$40,000	3	1%
Indiana Community Action Association Inc	$31,500	3	0%
New Economy Project Inc	$30,000	2	1%
South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center	$30,000	3	1%
Texas Appleseed	$29,000	3	1%
Invest in Louisiana	$27,500	3	1%
Project Green	$26,400	3	4%
Rise Economy	$25,000	3	1%
Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc	$25,000	2	0%
Alaska Public Interest Research Group	$20,000	2	1%
Statewide Poverty Action Network	$20,000	2	n/a
Ecumenical Poverty Initative	$20,000	2	n/a
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Inc	$19,700	3	0%
Maine Equal Justice Partners	$17,500	2	0%
Exodus Financial Services	$17,000	1	4%
Hope Enterprise Corporation	$15,000	1	0%
Veterians Education Success	$15,000	1	n/a
Policy Matters Ohio	$14,500	2	1%
Black Hills Community Loan Fund Inc	$13,000	1	4%
Neighborhood Partnerships Inc	$12,000	1	0%
North Carolina NAACP State Conference	$11,500	2	n/a
Dna Peoples Legal Services Inc	$11,100	1	0%
South Carolina Association for Community Economic Development	$10,000	1	0%
National Council of the US Society of St Vincent de Paul Inc	$10,000	1	0%
United Parents and Students	$10,000	1	0%
Wisdom Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc	$10,000	1	0%
National Association of Real Estate Brokers Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Michigan Advocacy Program	$10,000	1	0%
Florida Council of Churches	$9,910	1	n/a
Indiana Coalition for Human Services Inc	$9,500	1	n/a
North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus Foundation	$7,500	1	4%
Legal Aid Society of San Diego	$7,500	1	0%
Office of Kentucky Legal Services Programs Inc	$7,500	1	1%
Woodstock Institute	$7,500	1	1%
Inclusiv Inc	$7,500	1	0%
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Rights	$7,500	1	0%
Southern Bancorp Capital Partners	$7,000	1	0%
Faith in Action Network	$7,000	1	0%
Common Services Corp of the United	$6,000	1	n/a
Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference Inc	$5,500	1	n/a
Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest	$5,003	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Center for Responsible Lending supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 46.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Annie E Casey Foundation IncMD27.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Community Catalyst Inc · Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund · Center on Budget and Policy Priorities · Hopewell Fund · New Venture Fund · The Ford Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Tides Foundation · Economic Security Project Inc · Center for Law and Social Policy

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Center for Responsible Lending

How much does Center for Responsible Lending give?: Center for Responsible Lending reported 11 itemized grants totaling $145,000, out of $158,166 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Center for Responsible Lending fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (24%), Public Benefit (18%), Human Services (16%).
Who are Center for Responsible Lending's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Community Economic Development Association of Michigan ($106k), Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Inc ($93k), Earn Inc ($75k).
Does Center for Responsible Lending fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Center for Responsible Lending?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Annie E Casey Foundation Inc, Community Catalyst Inc, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund.
Where is Center for Responsible Lending based?: Center for Responsible Lending is based in NC.