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Mecklenburg Bar Foundation

To advance public understanding and respect for the rule of law and the role of the legal profession; to promote the highest ideals of professionalism, public service and access to the legal system; and to support the charitable and educational goals of the 26th Judicial District Bar and Mecklenburg Bar Association.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$135kCrime & Legal$122kHealth$63kInternational$41kCivil Rights$34kEducation$22kFood & Nutrition$18kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $30,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $40,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Alliance on Mental I$10,000
RAIN$10,000
Matthews Help Center$10,000
02The need
03

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, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Safe Alliance: $18k → 10%Safe Alliance: $13k → 10%Safe Alliance: $10k → 10%RAIN: $10k → 10%Larry Kings Clubhouse: $10k → 10%Safe Alliance: $8k → 10%Crisis Assistance Ministry: $14k → 10%Bright Blessings: $10k → 10%The Relatives: $8k → 10%Alexander Youth Network: $8k → 10%Latin American Coalition: $10k → 10%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$283k · 10 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
17

Total granted

$283k
$164k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+11%

Still filing today

90%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalFood & NutritionInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • SA
    Safe Alliance Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $48k · revenue +164%
  • PP
    Pats Place Child Advocacy Center
    4× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +49%
  • IH
    International House of Metrolina Inc
    3× · 2019–2021 · $41k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • Crisis Assistance Ministrygraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +43%
  • CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue -56%
  • MA
    METROLINA ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +20%
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.

1
Carolina Immigration Law

Provides immigration legal services to persons who are otherwise financially incapable of obtaining such services.

Crime & Legal
2
North Carolina Aids Action Network

The NCAAN improves the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS and affected communities through outreach and public education, policy advocacy and community-building to increase visibility and mutual support of people living with HIV/AIDS…

Health
3
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services
4
Carolina Refugee Resettlement Agency Inc

CRRA provides resettlement services to refugees and asylees who faced violence, persecution, and repression in their native countries in order for them to become self-sufficient and contributing members of society.

Human Services
5
Children At Risk

Children At Risk (C@R) is a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to serve as a catalyst for change to improve the quality of life for children through strategic research, public policy analysis, education, collaboration, and…

Crime & Legal
6
Mens Shelter of Charlotte Inc

Helping homeless men by providing a safe shelter and meeting their basic needs as well as address barriers related to homelessness and self-sufficiency and helping homeless men to obtain and maintain more appropriate housing.

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7
NourishNC Inc

NourishNC, Inc.'s goal is to provide healthy food to hungry children, empowering them to succeed in the classroom and in their community

Food & Nutrition
8
The Childrens Advocacy Center of Cleveland County

To coordinate a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to child abuse cases. To provide private forensic interviews and medical exams in a child-friendly environment.

Crime & Legal
9
Safe Harbor of Nc Inc

Safe Harbor provides a faith-based community for rebuilding, renewing, and recovery. We work together with volunteers and other nonprofit organizations to provide a wide range of services to those experiencing homelessness, single mothers,…

Health
10
UrbanPromise Charlotte

Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.

Youth Development
11
Charlotte Family Housing

The mission of Charlotte Family Housing is to empower working families experiencing homelessness to achieve long-term self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services, and advocacy.

Human Services
12
Carolina Adoption Services Inc

Carolina adoption services provides international and domestic adoption services, foster care, home studies, and post adoption support for children, youth and adoptive families.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Alliance Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bags of Hope. 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

24 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. 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Safe Alliance Inc: $48,000 · Human ServicesSafe Alliance IncCrisis Assistance Ministry: $14,000 · Human ServicesCrisis Assistance MinistryLatin American Coalition: $10,000 · Human ServicesLatin American CoalitionLarry Kings Clubhouse Childrens Play and Care Center: $10,000 · Human ServicesLarry Kings Clubhouse Childr…RAIN Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesRAIN IncBRIGHT BLESSINGS: $10,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHT BLESSINGSTHE RELATIVES INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE RELATIVES INCALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $7,500 · Human ServicesALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORKCouncil for Childrens Rights Inc: $24,000 · OtherCouncil for Childrens Rights …MATTHEWS HELP CENTER: $17,500 · OtherMATTHEWS HELP CENTERMecklenburg County Bar: $11,598 · OtherMecklenburg County BarNational Alliance on Mental I: $10,000 · OtherNational Alliance on Mental IOther grants less than 5000: $9,595 · OtherOther grants less than 5000STILL HOPE ENRICHMENT AGENCY: $7,500 · OtherSTILL HOPE ENRICHMENT AGENCYIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPSYCHOLOGY FOR ALL INC: $7,500 · OtherPSYCHOLOGY FOR ALL INCBAGS OF HOPE: $10,000 · OtherBAGS OF HOPEANGELS & SPARROWS SOUP KITCHEN INC: $7,500 · OtherANGELS & SPARROWS SOUP KITCHE…The Havens Inc: $10,000 · OtherThe Havens IncPats Place Child Advocacy Center: $42,500 · HealthPats Place Child A…CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $14,000 · HealthCHARLOTTE RESCUE M…METROLINA ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $11,500 · HealthMETROLINA ASSOCIAT…Promise Resource Network Inc: $10,000 · HealthPromise Resource N…CAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $25,000 · Crime & LegalCAPITAL AREA …Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc: $22,500 · Crime & LegalCharlotte Cen…LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF …International House of Metrolina Inc: $40,500 · InternationalInternati…LIFT UP CAROLINAS: $30,000 · Community ImprovementCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC: $21,500 · Education
Human Services$117,000Other$122,693Health$78,000Crime & Legal$57,500International$40,500Community Improvement$30,000Education$21,500

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 budgetSafe Alliance Inc: $48,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPats Place Child Advocacy Center: $42,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetInternational House of Metrolina Inc: $40,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetLIFT UP CAROLINAS: $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCouncil for Childrens Rights Inc: $24,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc: $22,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCLASSROOM CENTRAL INC: $21,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMATTHEWS HELP CENTER: $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry: $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION: $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROLINA ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $11,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLatin American Coalition: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPromise Resource Network Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLarry Kings Clubhouse Childrens Play and Care Center: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThe Havens Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBRIGHT BLESSINGS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAGS OF HOPE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE RELATIVES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALEXANDER YOUTH NETWORK: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS & SPARROWS SOUP KITCHEN INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTILL HOPE ENRICHMENT AGENCY: $7,500 over 1y, 5.1% 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.

United Way of Greater…Foundation for the Ca…Duke Energy FoundationMerancas Foundation I…The Leon Levine Found…Albemarle FoundationThe Presbyterian Hosp…True Homes Foundation…Speedway Children's C…Synchrony FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …The Gambrell Foundati…
United Way of Greater Charlotte IncNC38.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · True Homes Foundation Inc · Speedway Children's Charities · Synchrony Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Gambrell Foundation

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 Mecklenburg Bar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mecklenburg Bar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 29 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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