North Carolina · Nonprofit
ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY PENALTIES
ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY PENALTIES (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $360,240 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GASTON COUNTY INC ($221,277). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY PENALTIES holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 694 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 694 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Foundshared funders
- Bob Barker Foundation Incportfolio match
- Drug Policy Allianceportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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: 2021 0% · 2025 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY PENALTIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $57k → $77k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY PENALTIES’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
ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY PENALTIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY PENALTIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 100% · 2019 59% · 2020 61% · 2021 74% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
61% of ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY PENALTIES'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 $139k 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. $221k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 295 organizations that share them.
- The Carrie E and Lena V Glenn Foundshared fundersNC · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
- Bob Barker Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Drug Policy Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York Council on Problem Gambling Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Association of Dui Treatment Programsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girlsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prevention Michiganportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Justleadershipusa Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Criminal Justice Reform Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hope in the Hills Incorporated Healing Appalachiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A New Way of Life Reentry Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brooklyn Community Bail Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY PENALTIES
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
5%
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 ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY PENALTIES: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY PENALTIES?
- ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY PENALTIES (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $360,240 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GASTON COUNTY INC ($221,277). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY PENALTIES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $360,240 in grants to ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY PENALTIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY PENALTIES?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GASTON COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $221,277 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY PENALTIES 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing