North Carolina · Nonprofit
ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC
ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,649,218 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($1,116,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Advance North Carolina Inc does
Mission
To build political and economic power in black communities and institutions in north carolina.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Organizing/gotv: in 2024, we increased our focus and efforts on towards 365 year-round organizing in an effort to increase voter turnout in targeted and disenfranchised areas, regardless of how the maps were redrawn as a result of the redistricting efforts. Our on the ground efforts and infrastructure laid previously meant that we could spend less critical time building relationships and laying foundation but can instead utilize our resources to fortify and expand our programming to increase engagement and turnout. We are aligning our resources with strategy to expand our county and regional leadership structures by enhancing our regular programming with county tables and regional sessions. Communicating with a local lens: narrow policy and issue communication to engage local voters through county and regional structures, developing local narratives around issues to aid programmatic offerings, with an emphasis in rural counties. Year round organizing to maintain our local physical presence in communities in 2023 and beyond by extending and expanding our regional organizing harbors into new strategic counties, providing a pathway to consistent year-round physical presence across…
$1,865,644 spentof which $224,956 as grants99% of program spendingIssue based advocacy / other primary purpose programming: another way of fulfilling our primary purpose as an organization is to assist residents across north carolina by connecting issues in their community to the political process. In 2024 advance carolina produced several programs to help residents understand the political context and elected offices that impact their everyday lives.
$10,502 spent1% of program spendingAdvance notice: our podcast established to help address policy concerns in these issue areas: environmental racism, healthcare, homelessness, education, criminal justice. They are researched and responded to by our organization. This allows information to be shared on a digital platform for maximum outreach.
$7,416 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,883,562.
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 2019 to 2020, from $364k to $2.1M (+484%).
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.
97% of ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Marcus Bass
Executive director
Board chair
Courtney Crowder
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $75k → $585k.
4 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA 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
ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
100% 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 ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 44% · 2020 23% · 2021 33% · 2022 27% · 2023 64% — 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
27% of ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M 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
ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA 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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA 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 ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC?
- ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,649,218 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($1,116,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $6,649,218 in grants to ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,116,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing