North Carolina · Nonprofit
Changed Choices Inc
Changed Choices Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,080,739 to it, the largest being MERANCAS FOUNDATION INC ($180,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $582k
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $526k
What Changed Choices Inc does
Mission
To provide counseling, personal development programs, basic physical needs, transitional assistance, and family support to assure rehabilitation and post-release transition of incarcerated women who have committed to making positive, productive changes in their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pre release:for entry into the organization wraparound, holistic pre-release program, a womanmust anticipate returning to mecklenburg county, nc or the surrounding area, havedemonstrated a genuine desire to change, and have a minimum of two years remaining on her sentence. Throughout her time as a pre-release client, she works closely with the programs team and her change coach (case manager) to create a vision plan, with goals and action steps, which help a woman focus on personal growth: mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually to help prepare her for re-entry into the community. Each woman is also served spiritually and encouraged by at least two dedicated volunteers. While a woman is incarcerated, her family qualifies to receive support services such as free professional counseling, food, christmas gifts and referrals to partnering agencies. As a woman enters her last year prior to release, the organization works with her to provide guidance and education on housing, finances and job readiness and identification recovery as well as peer mentoring. Additionally, the coach ensures a written vision plan for re-entry is in place, and provides a church and church mentor.…
$200,567 spent$3,198 earned by the program97% of program spendingMcso: the organization serves women incarcerated in the mecklenburg county detentioncenter with professional counseling and classes using evidence based curriculum withtopics including parenting, self-control, responsible thinking, skills for successful living, social values and others.
$5,210 spent$630 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $205,777.
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 $565k to $716k (+27%).
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 6% · 2018 11% · 2020 12% · 2021 12% · 2022 28% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of Changed Choices Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $92k → $117k.
9 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Changed Choices Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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
Changed Choices Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
51% 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 Changed Choices Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 50% · 2019 36% · 2020 32% · 2021 39% · 2022 19% · 2023 19% — 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
69% of Changed Choices Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
75% of Changed Choices Inc'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. $401k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Changed Choices Inc is better cushioned than half of the 1,661 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,661 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Changed Choices 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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 Changed Choices 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 Changed Choices Inc?
- Changed Choices Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,080,739 to it, the largest being MERANCAS FOUNDATION INC ($180,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Changed Choices Inc have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $1,080,739 in grants to Changed Choices Inc, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Changed Choices Inc?
- MERANCAS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $180,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Changed Choices 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.
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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 32 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing