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.

Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc

Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.4M

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, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$12MHealth$6.4MHuman Services$2.3MHousing & Shelter$1.2MCommunity Improvement$111kPhilanthropy$35k

02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $9k
$10k–50k1 grant · $37k
$50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
$250k+6 grants · $4.2M

$149,180

Median grant

States reached

$32M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CHARLOTTE CENTER FOR LEGAL ADVOCACY	$1,406,779
PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES	$1,003,771
NC COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ASSOCIAT	$840,455
ACCESS EAST	$332,986
MOUNTAIN PROJECTS NC	$327,661
CARE SHARE HEALTH ALLIANCE	$303,409
KINTEGRA HEALTH	$240,132
FINANCIAL PROTECTION LAW CENTER	$156,680
NC ASSOCIATION OF BLACK LAWYERS	$149,180
NC FIELD	$147,633
HEALTH NET GASTON	$131,890
CARE REACH	$118,667
COUNCIL ON AGING BUNCOMBE COUNTY	$116,053
CUMBERLAND HEALTHNET	$111,104
NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER	$90,575

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$27M · 22 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$27M

$213k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

-17%

Still filing today

86%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

CC
Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $7.9M · revenue +41% · 30% of their budget
PL
PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES
9× · 2017–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +274%
AE
Access East Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +39%

Funded once

CC
CAPITAL CARE COLLABORATIVE
one grant, 2018 · $50k
CF
CAPE FEAR HEALTHNET INC
one grant, 2017 · $46k · revenue -11%
UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC
one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -17%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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.

North Carolina Community Action Association

To encourage, promote, and stimulate the community development of human resources, principally to eliminate poverty through the operation of community action programs.

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Community Care of North Carolina Inc

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.

Health

Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST

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Wnc Health Network Inc

WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.

Health

National Coalition On Health Care

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…

Health

North Carolina Healthcare Foundation Inc

To foster and accelerate the collective impact of hospitals, health systems and community partners to improve the health of north carolinians.

Health

North Carolina Business Group On Health Inc

To educate, advocate, and innovate for a better healthcare delivery system in nc.

Health

Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc

Crime & Legal

First Choice Community Health Ctrs

Providing healthcare to the underserved population of Harnett County NC and the surrounding area.

Health

Ncha Inc

To improve the health of the communities where we live and work by advocating for sound public policy and collaborative partnerships.

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North Carolina Alliance for Health

To convene, mobilize, support, and empower partners to advance equitable policies that reduce health disparities, prevent chronic disease, and promote health.

Health

Triangle Global Health Consortium Inc

The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Care Share Health Alliance Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/23

Grantees still filing

16/23

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Crime & Legal$13,384,062Health$6,374,990Other$4,162,953Human Services$3,154,596Philanthropy$35,080

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

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.

Z Smith Reynolds Foundation IncNC23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home