North Carolina · Nonprofit
Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc
Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,448,025 to it, the largest being CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ($1,041,472). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $983k
What Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc does
Mission
Support services for abused children
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Forensic interviews were completed and involved an MDT team of medical and health professionals. This team ensures that the family members were less traumatized and felt more supported and safer as they progress through the child abuse case investigation, intervention and prosecution phases and that one-stop services are delivered in a confidential and child-friendly environment at AWAKE
$577,558 spent100% of program spendingPuppet shows were presented to kindergarten children and families about child abuse and prevention in the local area
$0 spent0% of program spendingApril Pinwheels for Prevention. Pinwheels were placed at various places throughout the local community to bring awareness to child abuse.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $577,558.
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 2021 to 2022, from $528k to $771k (+46%).
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: 2017 70% · 2018 85% · 2019 78% · 2020 76% · 2021 58% · 2022 18% · 2023 40% · 2024 35% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Chief executive
Crystal Jones
Exec Director
Board chair
Kelly Quick Tornow
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $33k → $452k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 85% · 2019 80% · 2020 75% · 2021 58% · 2022 67% · 2023 32% — 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
50% of Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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 Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment 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. $226k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc has grown faster 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
Organizations like Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment 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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment 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 Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc?
- Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,448,025 to it, the largest being CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ($1,041,472). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $2,448,025 in grants to Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc?
- CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERS OF NORTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,041,472 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment 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.
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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 12 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