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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.

$276k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$127k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$1.0MEducation$243k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $205,230, the rows itemized in this filing. The $276,054 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $70,824 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $54k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $127k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS$10,000
CHARLOTTE CENTER FOR LEGAL ADVOCACY$10,000
NORTH CAROLINA BAR ASSOCIATION YOUNG LAWYERS DIVISION$9,500
SAFE ALLIANCE$7,500
COMPASS CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES$7,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SAFE ALLIANCE: $10k → 10%SAFE ALLIANCE: $10k → 10%SAFE ALLIANCE: $10k → 10%SAFE ALLIANCE: $8k → 10%SAFE ALLIANCE: $8k → 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 8 repeat orgs$243k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$1.0M
$243k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $573k · revenue +3%
  • NC
    North Carolina Bar Association
    5× · 2021–2025 · $148k · revenue +11%
  • PL
    PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES
    5× · 2021–2025 · $94k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $243k · revenue +12%
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
South Carolina Legal 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.

Crime & Legal
2
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
3
North Carolina Victim Assistance Network

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…

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4
Children's Law Center Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
5
The Children's Law Center

To provide legal services to indigent children in contested custody/ visitation and related cases.

Crime & Legal
6
North Carolina Equal Access to Justice Foundation Inc

In collaboration with the legal community, NCEAJF empowers North Carolinians to navigate the civil justice system.

Crime & Legal
7
Disability Rights North Carolina

Disability rights north carolina is a legal advocacy organization that advances and defends the rights of people with all types of disabilities, of all ages, throughout north carolina.

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8
Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida Inc

Provides no-cost legal services to the most vulnerable in central florida, helping them protect their families, health, and livelihood.

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9
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
10
The North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence

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.

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11
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
12
Child Welfare League of America

Child welfare league of america engages its network of public and private agencies and partners to advance policies, best practices, and collaborative strategies that result in better outcomes for vulnerable children, youth, and families.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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.

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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $573,496 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INCPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $94,359 · Crime & LegalPISGAH LEGAL SERVICESCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA: $54,801 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINACharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc: $54,500 · Crime & LegalCharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy IncCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $243,466 · EducationCAMPBELL UNIVERSITYNorth Carolina Bar Association: $147,697 · OtherNorth Carolina Bar …Council for Childrens Rights Inc: $50,000 · OtherCouncil for Childre…THE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $30,000 · OtherTHE WOMEN'S CENTER …Safe Alliance Inc: $45,000 · Human Services
Crime & Legal$777,156Education$243,466Other$227,697Human Services$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $573,496 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY: $243,466 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Carolina Bar Association: $147,697 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $94,359 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA: $54,801 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc: $54,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCouncil for Childrens Rights Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSafe Alliance Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.6% 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.

The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC11.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 North Carolina Bar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Carolina Bar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    5report 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 9 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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