· Public charity
Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc
Legal aid of north carolina is a statewide, nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services in civil matters to low-income people in order to ensure equal access to justice and to remove legal barriers to economic opportunity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $934k
- $250k+8 grants · $5.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARLOTTE CENTER FOR LEGAL ADVOCACY | $1,726,781 |
| NC COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ASSOCIAT | $844,353 |
| PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES | $823,210 |
| KINTEGRA HEALTH | $422,285 |
| ACCESS EAST | $405,554 |
| CARE SHARE HEALTH ALLIANCE | $349,511 |
| MOUNTAIN PROJECTS NC | $346,106 |
| COUNCIL ON AGING BUNCOMBE COUNTY | $326,308 |
| NC FIELD | $186,154 |
| HEALTH NET GASTON | $181,962 |
| FINANCIAL PROTECTION LAW CENTER | $145,380 |
| CUMBERLAND HEALTHNET | $136,975 |
| NC ASSOCIATION OF BLACK LAWYERS | $136,880 |
| NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER | $87,450 |
| CARE REACH | $58,769 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCCharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $6.4M · revenue +41% · 28% of their budget
- PLPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +274%
- AEAccess East Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +46%
Funded once
- CCCAPITAL CARE COLLABORATIVEone grant, 2018 · $50k
- CFCAPE FEAR HEALTHNET INCone grant, 2017 · $46k · revenue -11%
UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INCone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -17%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
To encourage, promote, and stimulate the community development of human resources, principally to eliminate poverty through the operation of community action programs.
To foster and enhance quality, efficiency and access to health care services for patients in need of such services, particularly patient populations that are vulnerable and/or underserved.
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.
To foster and accelerate the collective impact of hospitals, health systems and community partners to improve the health of north carolinians.
The mission of the national coalition on health care (nchc) is to support research and analysis, develop and promote policy solutions, build consensus, and engage the public in order to ensure that america has a high quality health system…
To educate, advocate, and innovate for a better healthcare delivery system in nc.
To improve the health of the communities where we live and work by advocating for sound public policy and collaborative partnerships.
Facilitate networking among hospitals
In collaboration with the legal community, NCEAJF empowers North Carolinians to navigate the civil justice system.
Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Care Share Health Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Projec. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Access East Inc ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GASTON FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc ↗
- Who funds Financial Protection Law Center ↗
- Who funds North Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Projec ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR HEALTHY CITIZENS DBA HEALTHNET GASTON ↗
- Who funds NC Field Inc ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND HEALTHNET INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CARE SHARE HEALTH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA HOUSING COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds MDC INC ↗
- Who funds Care Ring Inc ↗
- Who funds CAREREACH INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR HEALTHNET INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds FINANCIAL PATHWAYS OF THE PIEDMONT ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Foundation for the Carolinas · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · North Carolina Justice Center · Wells Fargo Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Mdc Inc · Camber Foundation · Blueprint North Carolina · The Cannon Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.