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Justice for Nc

The organization's mission is to promote the common good and social welfare of North Carolina residents by conducting research, sponsoring educational activities and events, and disseminating accurate and timely information on the subject of North Carolina's Justice system.

$220k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Public Benefit$3.0MEducation$1.4MCivil Rights$250kEnvironment$15k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$120,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$995
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Rally NC$120,000
Progress North Carolina$100,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 51% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%BlackPac: $250k → 14%NC A Philip Randolph Educational Fund: $175k → 8%Alliance for Balanced Government: $50k → 8%Conservation Votes PAC: $15k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nc Local Inc

Expands local news across North Carolina

Civil Rights
2
Democracy North Carolina

Democracy North Carolina's mission is to strengthen democratic structures, build power among disenfranchised communities, and inspire confidence in a transformed political process that works for all.

Civil Rights
3
Think North Carolina First

Think North Carolina First conducts public policy and opinion research, sponsors educational activities, and hosts and participates in forums and presentations for the purpose of disseminating information to promote the general public's…

Public Benefit
4
Make North Carolina First

Make North Carolina First conducts research, sponsors educational activities and events, and disseminates accurate and timely information to promote the general public's understanding of ways to maintain and improve North Carolina's common…

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5
North Carolina Empowerment Organization
Civil Rights
6
Carolina Forward Foundation

To conduct in depth polling of the citizens of North Carolina and to publish and disseminate educational articles on major public policy issues in North Carolina.

Public Benefit
7
North Carolina for the People

To educate the public on how to build a democracy where everyone participates, every vote is counted, voting rights are fully enforced, and everyone's voice is heard; to work toward a system where everyone has a say in decisions that…

Civil Rights
8
North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault Inc

The Coalition is a Statewide Forum Providing a Unifying Vision to End Sexual Violence

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9
North Carolinians for Passenger Rail

North Carolinians for Passenger Rail aka All Aboard NC is focused on uniting partners amplifying advocacy and securing sustainable funding to expand passenger rail. Investing in passenger rail strengthens our economy enhances urban and…

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10
North Carolina Information Innovation Fund Inc

The North Carolina Information Innovation Fund NCIIF will educate the residents of North Carolina on civic duty and election related matters, including the importance of voting in elections, national policies impacting North Carolina, how…

Public Benefit
11
Moving Nc Forward

To support and advocate for policies that advance economic growth, stronger schools, tolerance, and fair and legal electoral districts.

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12
State Employees Association of Nc Scholarship Fund Inc
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Progress North Carolina; the most unlike its peers is N C a Philip Randolph Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Real Facts NC: $2,700,000 · OtherReal Facts NCNorth Carolina Families First: $1,220,000 · OtherNorth Carolina Families FirstBLACKPAC: $250,000 · OtherBLACKPAC+4 more: $206,000 · OtherN C A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE INC: $175,000 · Civil RightsPROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA: $100,000 · Community ImprovementPROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA ACTION: $20,000 · Public BenefitNC For the People Action (formerly NC Voters for Clean Elections): $15,000 · Public BenefitSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $12,000 · Public Benefit
Other$4,376,000Civil Rights$175,000Community Improvement$100,000Public Benefit$47,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetN C A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE INC: $175,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR BALANCED GOVERNMENT: $50,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetPROGRESS NORTH CAROLINA ACTION: $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNC For the People Action (formerly NC Voters for Clean Elections): $15,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetSOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE: $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Imagine North Carolina FirstNC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Imagine North Carolina First · Strategic Victory Fund · Hopewell Fund · Make North Carolina First · Sixteen Thirty Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Justice for Nc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Justice for Nc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Justice for Nc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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