North Carolina · 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.
- $5.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $149,180
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,406,779
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $32M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $5.6M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $6.3M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $3.7M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $4.0M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $1.9M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $981k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $1.0M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $1.7M | 18% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc | $7,856,130 | 9 | 30% |
| Pisgah Legal Services | $4,528,344 | 9 | 8% |
| Access East Inc | $2,125,833 | 9 | 1% |
| Council on Aging of Buncombe County Inc | $1,757,457 | 9 | 21% |
| North Carolina Community Health Center Assoc Inc | $1,684,808 | 2 | 5% |
| Gaston Family Health Services Inc | $1,526,449 | 5 | 0% |
| Financial Protection Law Center | $999,588 | 9 | 48% |
| North Carolina Association of Black Lawyer Land Loss Prevention Projec | $975,252 | 9 | 16% |
| Advocates for Healthy Citizens Dba Healthnet Gaston | $822,214 | 9 | 17% |
| NC Field Inc | $729,931 | 5 | 29% |
Show all 28 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($11k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc
- How much does Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc give?
- Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc reported 18 grants totaling $5,608,582 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (54%), Health (30%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc ($7.9M), Pisgah Legal Services ($4.5M), Access East Inc ($2.1M).
- Does Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc, Dogwood Health Trust, Foundation for the Carolinas.
- Where is Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc based?
- Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc is based in NC.
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