North Carolina · Nonprofit
Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc
Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,489,976 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($2,345,006). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $7.5M
- Net assets
- $6.3M
What Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc does
Mission
We exist to help people create lasting solutions for economic stability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Economic Mobility, Healthy Initiatives & Asset BuildingA) Critical Assistance department served clients identified as being in crisis.Through Economic Mobility we served 609 people with a total of over $600,000 distributed in financial assistance.B) Healthy Initiatives/Food Pantry: This program provides a 7-day supply of food to families via referrals by social workers, schools, clergy, medical staff, etc. The Pantry provided food to 2,365 unduplicated people having an impact on 6,396 pantry visits. The pantry distributed 127,960 pounds of food with a value of $400,000 of food distributed.C) Under our Asset Building Program through our VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) we served 397 households. The households received a combined total refund amount of $394,946 and estimated cost savings to the customers in tax preparation fees of $116,600.
$1,686,469 spent74% of program spendingEducationEducation - Education Services A) The purpose of the LEARN Works after school program is to foster academic development and advance family engagement for enrolled students and families, K-5 who are behind grade level. We focus on missing reading skills that will address missing math skills. We also provide enrichment opportunities. We served 91 students K-5th grade from 5 area schools.
$395,863 spent17% of program spendingImpact & EngagementThe Impact and Engagement department works closely with neighbors in United Neighborhoods and beyond to connect people with information, resources and opportunities. They engage with others across sectors to promote collaboration that meets needs, fills gaps, reduces silos, decreases barriers, raises awareness and advocates for low and moderate income individuals and families in the North Meck area.
$200,172 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,282,504.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $3.3M to $5.0M (+49%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 20% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Bergstedt Martha
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $608k → $783k.
16 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
66% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 68% · 2019 38% · 2020 29% · 2021 29% · 2022 28% · 2023 20% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
49% of Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
95% of Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc?
- Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,489,976 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($2,345,006). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $7,489,976 in grants to Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,345,006 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ada Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 58 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing