North Carolina · Nonprofit
Center for Prevention Services
Center for Prevention Services (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $903,070 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($407,190). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $903k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Center for Prevention Services does
Mission
To promote health and resilience through progressive approaches that integrate evidence-based substance use prevention programming, harm reduction, and multifaceted systems of care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Queen City Harm Reduction (QCHR): QCHR provides syringe access services primarily to Mecklenburg County residents and does limited outreach in surrounding counties. We also provide support and education to other counties who wish to start their own syringe access programs. The purpose of syringe access programs is harm reduction and individual empowerment. We provide practical strategies to improve the health of people who use drugs by providing sterile injecting equipment. Syringe access programs are a proven method to prevent the spread of diseases like HIV, HepC, and endocarditis. Safer equipment also means fewer absesses and other health problems that put a strain on health departments and other public resources. Syringe access programs improve the lives of people who use drugs and reduce overdose deaths. QCHR is supported by grant funding from the the NC Department of Health and Human Services and a number of private grants including Novant, Gilead, and HepConnect.
$1,846,703 spent58% of program spendingGreater Piedmont Community Resilience (GPCR): Center for Prevention Services has been providing youth substance use prevention in the Charlotte region since 1971. We currently serve six counties in North Carolina; Mecklenburg, Union, Stanly, Cabarrus, Rowan, and Davidson. Through Substance Abuse Prevention Block Grant (SAPBG) funding, Opioid Settlement funding, and other funding streams, we supply community education, Synar-mandated merchant education, environmental prevention efforts, and support for substance use prevention coalitions across our six county catchment area. We offer evidence-based educational programs for youth and their families including Strengthening Families, Unique YOU, Too Good for Drugs, AVOID Vapes, and many others. Research has shown that between the ages of 13 and 21, the likelihood of lifetime substance use disorder decreases 4 to 5 percent for each year that the initiation of substance use is delayed. We work with youth and their families to ensure that our kids have the best possible start in life and are fully equipped to succeed.
$1,314,938 spent42% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,161,641.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.1M to $1.8M (+60%).
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 95% · 2018 97% · 2019 93% · 2020 95% · 2021 88% · 2022 91% · 2023 98% · 2024 100% · 2025 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Angela Allen
CEO
Board chair
Corey Clamp
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $140k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 Prevention Services’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 Prevention Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 Center for Prevention Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 78% · 2020 99% · 2021 61% · 2022 80% · 2023 38% — 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
60% of Center for Prevention Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
Center for Prevention Services draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $413k 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.
Government funding Center for Prevention Services receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.8M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Center for Prevention Services
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Prevention Services: 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 Prevention Services?
- Center for Prevention Services (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $903,070 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($407,190). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Center for Prevention Services have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $903,070 in grants to Center for Prevention Services, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Center for Prevention Services?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $407,190 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center for Prevention Services 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 9 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