North Carolina · Nonprofit
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA (North Carolina) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $710,649 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($344,579). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $711k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Children's Law Center of Central North Carolina does
Mission
We provide children with quality legal advocacy focusing on domestic violence issues, high conflict custody cases and the rights of children in public education. Our vision is to increase children's potential to become emotionally healthy adults through fostering their sense of hope and empowerment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Advocate for the best interests of children in domestic violence households, custody cases, and provide legal assistance to children and their families in education cases.
$822,292 spent$17,453 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $822,292.
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.
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 $740k to $1.5M (+106%).
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 41% · 2022 44% · 2023 52% · 2024 48% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA’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 5 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.
Board chair
Clara A Ignich
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $68k.
6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA’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
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 75% · 2019 54% · 2020 53% · 2021 86% · 2022 52% · 2023 84% — 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
11% of CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
56% of CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA'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 $311k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $399k 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
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA?
- CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA (North Carolina) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $710,649 to it, the largest being The Winston-Salem Foundation ($344,579). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $710,649 in grants to CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA?
- The Winston-Salem Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $344,579 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 22 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