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North Carolina Justice Center

This organization serves as a public policy advocacy organization. Its mission is to reduce and eliminate poverty in north carolina by helping to ensure that every household gains access to the resources, services and fair treatment that it needs to enjoy economic security.

$266k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$11M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations North Carolina Justice Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Crime & LegalEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$266k43%
FY20236$165k17%
FY202214$282k43%
FY202122$475k36%
FY202024$687k63%
FY201915$301k53%
FY20186$207k50%
FY20174$100kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$528kCivil Rights$513kCrime & Legal$501kHuman Services$213kCommunity Improvement$206kPublic Benefit$178kPhilanthropy$130kHealth$95kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of North Carolina Justice Center by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nc Child$377,85557%
North Carolina Black Alliance Inc$205,500411%
Education Justice Alliance$200,000117%
Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc$136,87851%
Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham Inc$112,000143%
Linc Inc$95,00052%
Blueprint North Carolina$90,00021%
Momsrising Education Fund$85,00080%
Disability Rights North Carolina$84,00031%
Community Success Initiative Inc$75,00044%
Women Advance$65,500632%
Straight Talk Support Group$65,000210%
Care Share Health Alliance Inc$65,000136%
National Coalition of 100 Black Women Inc Queen City Metropolitan Chapter$62,400521%
Pisgah Legal Services$58,78840%
Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc$51,50020%
Durham County$50,0001n/a
Preserving Home Inc$50,00013%
Operation Gateway Inc$40,000230%
Alliance for a Just Society$40,00010%
Nc Reentry Innovators for Success$40,0002n/a
City of Durham$38,0001n/a
United Way of North Carolina$35,00011%
Just Economics$25,00026%
North Carolina Community Action Association$25,00020%
Mdc Inc$25,00010%
N C a Philip Randolph Institute Inc$22,60021%
North Carolina Outdoor Advertising Association$22,00015%
North Carolina Council of Churches$20,0002n/a
Foundation for Health Leadership and Innovation$20,00010%
Rha Health Services Inc$20,00020%
Conservatives For Criminal Justice Reform$17,00023%
The Center for Energy Education Fka Solar Center for Excellence$15,00011%
Center for Responsible Lending$15,00010%
Financial Protection Law Center$12,50013%
Lynn Burke (Burke's Law)$10,0001n/a
Forward Justice$10,00010%
Nc Community Outreach & Wellness Center Inc$10,0001n/a
Benevolence Farm$10,00013%
North Carolina Equal Access to Justice Foundation Inc$10,00011%
Action4equity$10,00010%
Southern Coalition for Social Justice$10,00010%
Wash Away Unemployment Inc$10,0001n/a
United Way of Rutherford County Inc$10,00011%
Lgbt Center of Raleigh Inc$10,00012%
Universal Center of God$7,3501n/a
The Beloved Community Center of Greensboro Inc$7,00011%
North Carolina Employee Ownership Center$6,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

North Carolina Justice Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNc Child: $377,855 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetNorth Carolina Black Alliance Inc: $205,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetEducation Justice Alliance: $200,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc: $136,878 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetReligious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham Inc: $112,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetLinc Inc: $95,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBlueprint North Carolina: $90,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMomsrising Education Fund: $85,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetDisability Rights North Carolina: $84,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity Success Initiative Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetWomen Advance: $65,500 over 6y, 32% of budgetStraight Talk Support Group: $65,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCare Share Health Alliance Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetNational Coalition of 100 Black Women Inc Queen City Metropolitan Chapter: $62,400 over 5y, 21% of budgetPisgah Legal Services: $58,788 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLegal Aid of North Carolina Inc: $51,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPreserving Home Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetOperation Gateway Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetAlliance for a Just Society: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of North Carolina: $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJust Economics: $25,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetNorth Carolina Community Action Association: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMdc Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetN C a Philip Randolph Institute Inc: $22,600 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNorth Carolina Outdoor Advertising Association: $22,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetFoundation for Health Leadership and Innovation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRha Health Services Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConservatives For Criminal Justice Reform: $17,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetThe Center for Energy Education Fka Solar Center for Excellence: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCenter for Responsible Lending: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFinancial Protection Law Center: $12,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetForward Justice: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBenevolence Farm: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNorth Carolina Equal Access to Justice Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAction4equity: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSouthern Coalition for Social Justice: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Rutherford County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLgbt Center of Raleigh Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Beloved Community Center of Greensboro Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 39.

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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 IncNC45.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Blueprint North Carolina · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · North Carolina Community Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · New Venture Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · Imagine North Carolina First · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Hopewell Fund

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.

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About North Carolina Justice Center

How much does North Carolina Justice Center give?
North Carolina Justice Center reported 7 grants totaling $266,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does North Carolina Justice Center fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (21%), Civil Rights (21%), Crime & Legal (20%).
Who are North Carolina Justice Center's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Nc Child ($378k), North Carolina Black Alliance Inc ($206k), Education Justice Alliance ($200k).
Does North Carolina Justice Center fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as North Carolina Justice Center?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc, Blueprint North Carolina, Triangle Community Foundation Inc.
Where is North Carolina Justice Center based?
North Carolina Justice Center is based in NC.

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 48 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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