How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in North Carolina?

Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in North Carolina, currently Sixteen Thirty Fund, Tides Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into North Carolina from out of state.

How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in North Carolina?

$274M reached 272 civil rights and advocacy organizations in North Carolina, from 755 funders. 20% came from funders also based in North Carolina.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · North Carolina · Civil rights and advocacy

Who funds civil rights and advocacy in North Carolina

Civil rights and advocacy funding in North Carolina is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Southern Coalition for Social Justice leads, and the money reaches 272 groups. Most of it comes from outside North Carolina: only 20% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here.

$274M

granted

272

organizations

20%

from in-state

The short version

755 funders gave $274M to 272 civil rights and advocacy organizations in North Carolina across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
20% of that came from funders also based in North Carolina; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of civil rights and advocacy in North Carolina is Sixteen Thirty Fund, at $16M.
The civil rights and advocacy organization drawing the most is Southern Coalition for Social Justice, at $31M.

Largest funders of civil rights and advocacy in North Carolina

The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in North Carolina, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Sixteen Thirty Fund$16M 2Tides Foundation$12M 3Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$11M 4The Ford Foundation$10M 5New Venture Fund$9M 6Hopewell Fund$7M 7Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc$7M 8Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$7M 9NEO Philanthropy Inc$7M 10Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc$7M

Civil rights and advocacy organizations in North Carolina that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

262 other civil rights and advocacy organizations$149M

Southern Coalition for Social Justice$31M Forward Justice$22M Piedmont Rising Inc$10M Campaign For Southern Equality$9M Tzedek Social Justice Fund$8M

How to find civil rights and advocacy funders in North Carolina

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Start with the funders already active in North Carolina
The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy in North Carolina are Sixteen Thirty Fund, Tides Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. A funder already writing civil rights and advocacy checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
80% of civil rights and advocacy money in North Carolina comes from funders elsewhere, so national civil rights and advocacy funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in North Carolina.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in North Carolina?: Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in North Carolina, currently Sixteen Thirty Fund, Tides Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into North Carolina from out of state.
Who is the largest civil rights and advocacy funder in North Carolina?: Sixteen Thirty Fund gives the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in North Carolina, $16M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in North Carolina?: $274M reached 272 civil rights and advocacy organizations in North Carolina, from 755 funders. 20% came from funders also based in North Carolina.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.