North Carolina · Nonprofit
ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY
ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,235 to it, the largest being DAVIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($107,510). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $101k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $159k
- Net assets
- $85k
What Advocacy Center of Davie County does
Mission
To coordinate the resources of local churches public agencies and other organizations where persons in need can be connected to resources and services available to them.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Payment of past-due rent or temporary housing expenses past due utility bills or other necessary living expenses in situations where temporary loss of employment or an unforeseen expense has caused an individual to get behind. The person must demonstrate that they have sustainable income and that after this one-time financial interventions they will continue on stable financial footing without needing further assistance from us or other agencies for at least 30 days. In 2025 the Advocacy Center assisted 393 individuals.
$56,647 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $56,647.
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 $89k to $62k (−31%).
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.
100% of ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sharon Fruits
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $30k.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY’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
ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 53% · 2020 99% · 2021 37% · 2022 99% · 2023 75% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
82% of ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $29k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $131k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY
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.
Public support
87%
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 ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY: 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 ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY?
- ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,235 to it, the largest being DAVIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($107,510). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $159,235 in grants to ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY?
- DAVIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $107,510 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADVOCACY CENTER OF DAVIE COUNTY 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 5 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