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North Carolina Justice Center

This organization serves as a public policy advocacy organization.

$266k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$528kCivil Rights$513kCrime & Legal$501kHuman Services$213kCommunity Improvement$206kPublic Benefit$178kPhilanthropy$130kHealth$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EDUCATION JUSTICE ALLIANCE$200,000
NATIONAL COALITION OF 100 BLACK$20,000
FORWARD JUSTICE$10,000
ACTION4EQUITY INC$10,000
WOMEN ADVANCE$10,000
MOMS RISING EDUCATION FUND$10,000
NC BLACK ALLIANCE INC$5,500
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 (FY20–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%RHA HEALTH SERVICES INC: $10k → 12%RHA HEALTH SERVICES INC: $10k → 12%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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 21 repeat orgs$820k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
24

Total granted

$1.7M
$600k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+89%

Still filing today

90%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NC
    NC CHILD
    5× · 2018–2022 · $378k · revenue +89%
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $206k · revenue ×15
  • CC
    Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $137k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • RELIGIOUS COALITION FOR A NONVIOLENT DURHAM INC
    one grant, 2020 · $112k · revenue -20% · 43% of their budget
  • CS
    CARE SHARE HEALTH ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $65k · revenue +900% · 36% of their budget
  • DC
    DURHAM COUNTY
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
North Carolina Empowerment Organization
Civil Rights
2
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
3
North Carolina a Philip Randolph Educational Fund

To bring about civic betterment and social improvements.

Human Services
4
North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault Inc

The Coalition is a Statewide Forum Providing a Unifying Vision to End Sexual Violence

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5
North Carolinians for Redistricting Reform

North Carolinians for Redistricting Reform (NC4RR) is a bipartisan nonprofit working to improve North Carolina's representative democracy through redistricting reform. NC4RR's objective is to help pass a state constitutional amendment in…

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6
Community Industry Value Interactionist League

NC CIVIL is a nonprofit community impact organization that develops grassroots approaches to structural disparities. Our mission is to increase resident involvement, improve organization of resources, and help institutions partner…

Youth Development
7
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
8
Nc Local Inc

Expands local news across North Carolina

Civil Rights
9
Nc State American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Org

To improve the lives of working families - to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation. to accomplish this mission, we will build and change the state's labor movement.

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10
Emancipate Nc Inc

Through community education, narrative shift, and litigation Emancipate NC supports North Carolinas people as they free themselves from mass incarceration and structural racism.

Crime & Legal
11
Democracy North Carolina

Democracy North Carolina's mission is to strengthen democratic structures, build power among disenfranchised communities, and inspire confidence in a transformed political process that works for all.

Civil Rights
12
Progress North Carolina Action

Progress North Carolina Action conducts research, sponsors educational activities and events, and disseminates accurate and timely information to promote the general public's understanding of ways to maintain and improve North Carolina's…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Disability Rights North Carolina; the most unlike its peers is Community Success Initiative 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

40 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. 40 of the 48 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
29/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NC CHILD: $377,855 · OtherNC CHILDDISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA: $84,000 · OtherDISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINADURHAM COUNTY: $50,000 · OtherDURHAM COUNTYNC REENTRY INNOVATORS FOR SUCCESS: $40,000 · OtherCITY OF DURHAM: $38,000 · OtherWOMEN ADVANCE: $65,500 · OtherWOMEN ADVANCEPRESERVING HOME INC: $50,000 · OtherPRESERVING HOME INC+15 more: $219,950 · Other+15 moreNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANCE INC: $205,500 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA BLACK ALLIANC…Education Justice Alliance: $200,000 · EducationEducation Justice AllianceRELIGIOUS COALITION FOR A NONVIOLENT DURHAM INC: $112,000 · EducationRELIGIOUS COALITION FOR A NO…BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA: $90,000 · EducationBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA+1 more: $10,000 · EducationCharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc: $136,878 · Crime & LegalCharlotte Center …Straight Talk Support Group: $65,000 · Crime & LegalStraight Talk Sup…PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES: $58,788 · Crime & LegalPISGAH LEGAL SERV…LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $51,500 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF NORT…Conservatives For Criminal Justice Reform: $17,000 · Crime & LegalCenter for Responsible Lending: $15,000 · Crime & Legal+4 more: $42,500 · Crime & Legal+4 moreLINC INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Success Initiative Inc: $75,000 · Human ServicesRHA HEALTH SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesMOMSRISING EDUCATION FUND: $85,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $35,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF RUTHERFORD COUNTY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNational Coalition of 100 Black Women Inc Queen City Metropolitan Chapter: $62,400 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY: $40,000 · Community ImprovementJust Economics: $25,000 · Community ImprovementCARE SHARE HEALTH ALLIANCE INC: $65,000 · HealthOPERATION GATEWAY INC: $40,000 · Health
Other$925,305Education$617,500Crime & Legal$386,666Human Services$190,000Philanthropy$130,000Community Improvement$127,400Health$105,000

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 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
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 Foun…Blueprint North Carol…Triangle Community Fo…Dogwood Health TrustNorth Carolina Commun…NEO Philanthropy IncNew Venture FundDuke Energy FoundationImagine North Carolin…Amalgamated Charitabl…Foundation for the Ca…Hopewell Fund
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization North Carolina Justice Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Carolina Justice Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report 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.

    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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