North Carolina · Nonprofit
Center for Participatory Change
Center for Participatory Change (North Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,285,961 to it, the largest being MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC ($317,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $337k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $190k
What Center for Participatory Change does
Mission
Igniting collective power. Transforming systems of oppression. Healing in community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
It is urgent that Black communities-as survivors of anti-Blackness, white supremacy, and state-sanctioned violence-claim space to heal. Black Love provides a space for Black communities to share meals, form new relationships, and strengthen intergenerational bonds. The program fosters connection, cultural affirmation, and collective resilience while addressing the ongoing impacts of systemic inequities.
$161,253 spentof which $17,897 as grants100% of program spendingCPC believes in Popular Education, a collective learning process in which communities identify shared truths, develop strategies, and take action for change. CPC NewGen engages youth and young adults of color through this framework, centering youth leadership and civic engagement. Participants explore identity, systems change, and leadership while building relationships with mentors, elders, and peers who support collective empowerment.
Intercambio Pathways at UNCA combines cross-cultural exchange with expert-led discussions on organizing, civic participation, and systems change. Participants share their languages, identities, and cultures while learning from practitioners, activists, and educators about strategies to address inequities and impact their neighborhoods, schools, and communities. The program equips students to turn shared learning into concrete action, fostering leadership, collaboration, and social change at the college level.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $161,253.
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 2022 to 2023, from $476k to $214k (−55%).
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: 2020 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Center for Participatory Change’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% 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
Tiffany De'Bellot
Executive Director
Board chair
Monica McDaniel
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $19k → $252k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 Center for Participatory Change’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
Center for Participatory Change has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
61% 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 Center for Participatory Change.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 36% · 2021 27% · 2022 42% · 2023 48% — 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
30% of Center for Participatory Change's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
57% of Center for Participatory Change'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. $334k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Center for Participatory Change's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Center for Participatory Change
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
46% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 Center for Participatory Change: 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 Center for Participatory Change?
- Center for Participatory Change (North Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,285,961 to it, the largest being MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC ($317,500). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Center for Participatory Change have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,285,961 in grants to Center for Participatory Change, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Center for Participatory Change?
- MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC is the largest funder on record, with $317,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center for Participatory Change 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 17 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