North Carolina · Nonprofit
CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC
CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,839,955 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($612,370). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $4.0M
What Chatham Outreach Alliance Inc does
Mission
Cora is a nonprofit working to end hunger by providing nutritious food through its choice pantries, mobile markets, and seasonal programs for kids. Cora supports low- and moderate-income residents with dignity and care. Last year, cora distributed 1.9 million meals to nearly 13,000 individuals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cora's choice food pantries support individuals and families facing food insecurity. Set up like a grocery store, the pantry allows clients to choose foods that suit their needs, providing enough for 21 meals per family member at each visit. This client choice model promotes dignity, nutritional variety, and community engagement. In 2024/2025, the pantry provided over 994,000 meals to over 3,000 families across the county.
$2,774,498 spent88% of program spendingThe summer nutritional assistance for chatham kids (snack) programacross the county. Ensures that children who rely on free or reduced-price school meals can access nutritious food during the summer months. It supplies families with enough healthy food to cover each child's breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, reducing the burden of increased food costs when school is out. In the summer of 2024, we served 1,323 children with over 194,000 meals.
$206,343 spent7% of program spendingCora's mobile market brings nutritious food directly to chatham county residents facing food insecurity, reaching those in food deserts or with limited access to healthy food. Using a drive-through model, it provides families with pre-packed groceries that include fresh produce, meats, dairy, bakery items, and staples. Each visit offers enough food for 21 meals per person. In 2024/2025, the mobile market provided 221,000 meals.provided 171,000 meals.
$89,555 spent3% of program spendingCorapacks provides food to children who depend on free or reduced-cost meals at school but need access to nutrition during weekends and breaks. From september through may, each enrolled student receives a monthly food box delivered to their home. Each child receives three meals, two snacks, and milk for the days they are not in school. During the 2024/2025 school year, cora provided food to 170 children.delivery:cora offers delivery to local seniors who lack transportation. In 2024/2025, cora provided delivery of groceries and csfp (commoditysupplemental food program) boxes to 185 people monthly.other:food insecurity can be defined as limited or uncertain access tonutritious food because of a lack of resources. Many families do nothave the financial resources they need to meet the competing demands we all face including payments for food, housing, medical care and other household necessities which increases their risk for food insecurity. Families may experience food insecurity for a day, a week, a few months or more as their resources come and go.to address this serious issue, the cora food pantry provided the equivalent of approximately 1,900,000 meals to over 12,600 individuals…
$86,231 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,156,627.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $2.3M to $3.3M (+42%).
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 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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
Melissa Beard
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $37k → $365k.
16 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
66% 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 CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 46% · 2019 42% · 2020 44% · 2021 33% · 2022 20% · 2023 21% — 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
50% of CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
78% of CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE 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. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Organizations like CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC
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In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE 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 CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC?
- CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,839,955 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($612,370). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $2,839,955 in grants to CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $612,370 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 59 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