· Public charity
North Carolina Bar Foundation
The purpose of the foundation is to foster and support statewide public service and pro bono programs and projects that promote access to justice, civic education, service, and professionalism.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $205,230 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $276,054 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $70,824 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $54k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $127k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC | $126,986 |
| NORTH CAROLINA BAR ASSOCIATION OTHER PROGRAMS | $13,700 |
| CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NC | $10,044 |
| PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES | $10,000 |
| CHARLOTTE CENTER FOR LEGAL ADVOCACY | $10,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS | $10,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA BAR ASSOCIATION YOUNG LAWYERS DIVISION | $9,500 |
| SAFE ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
| COMPASS CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES | $7,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $573k · revenue +5%- NCNorth Carolina Bar Association5× · 2021–2025 · $148k · revenue +11%
- PLPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES5× · 2021–2025 · $94k · revenue +122%
Funded once
CAMPBELL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $243k · revenue +12%
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.
Provides immigration legal services to persons who are otherwise financially incapable of obtaining such services.
South carolina legal services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income south carolinians.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
Children's law center believes every child should grow up with a strong foundation of family, health and education and live in a world free from poverty, trauma, racism, and other forms of oppression. our more than 100 staff together with…
North carolina victim assistance network promotes the rights and needs of crime victims by educating north carolina's citizens and public policy leaders about the devastating impact that crime has on our society. serving our members as a…
To provide legal services to indigent children in contested custody/ visitation and related cases.
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
In collaboration with the legal community, NCEAJF empowers North Carolinians to navigate the civil justice system.
Provides no-cost legal services to the most vulnerable in central florida, helping them protect their families, health, and livelihood.
Nccadv leads the state's movement to end domestic violence and to enhance work with survivors through collaborations, innovative trainings, prevention, technical assistance, state policy development and legal advocacy.
To coordinate a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to child abuse cases. To provide private forensic interviews and medical exams in a child-friendly environment.
Empowering south carolina communities and children's advocacy centers to deliver a best practice response to child abuse
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Council for Childrens Rights Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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.
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 LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds North Carolina Bar Association ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc ↗
- Who funds Council for Childrens Rights Inc ↗
- Who funds Safe Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
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.
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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 North Carolina Bar Foundation 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.