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DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA

DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA (North Carolina) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,841,962 to it, the largest being Z SMITH REYNOLDS FOUNDATION INC ($515,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.9M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$3.8M
Net assets
$2.5M
16/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Disability Rights North Carolina does

Mission

Disability Rights North Carolina is a legal advocacy organization that advances and defends the rights of people with all types of disabilities, of all ages, throughout north carolina.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Disability rights nc continues to successfully advocate for the legal rights of people with disabilities to live in their communities free from abuse, neglect, discrimination, exploitation, force, and unwanted institutionalization; and to have equality of access to services and supports people need to thrive, including education, housing, employment, and public and private accommodations.

    $4,571,500 spent
    80% of program spending
  2. Disability rights nc advocates for the legal rights of disabled people using a broad range of strategies, including information and referral, outreach and education, monitoring of facilities, investigations of abuse and neglect, coalition and policy work, technical assistance and support for self-advocacy, individual representation, and systemic litigation.

    $1,113,356 spent$518,615 earned by the program
    20% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,684,856.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.5M) Expenses 100 ($3.3M) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 97 ($3.4M) Expenses 107 ($3.5M) Net assets 88 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 115 ($4.0M) Expenses 120 ($4.0M) Net assets 93 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 137 ($4.8M) Expenses 142 ($4.7M) Net assets 103 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 139 ($4.9M) Expenses 147 ($4.9M) Net assets 103 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 157 ($5.5M) Expenses 160 ($5.3M) Net assets 123 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 174 ($6.1M) Expenses 179 ($5.9M) Net assets 137 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 181 ($6.4M) Expenses 179 ($5.9M) Net assets 172 ($2.1M)2025 Revenue 195 ($6.9M) Expenses 194 ($6.4M) Net assets 208 ($2.5M)
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Revenue (195)Expenses (194)Net assets (208)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.5M to $4.3M (+73%).

$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.6M
$1.8M
$1.8M
$2.2M
$2.5M
$4.3M
$4.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 83% · 2018 90% · 2019 88% · 2020 83% · 2021 80% · 2022 87% · 2023 77% · 2024 72% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$196k
’17
−$146k
’18
$63k
’19
$115k
’20
$10k
’21
$229k
’22
$177k
’23
$419k
’24
$429k
’25
6.2
months of
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

Evan Lewis

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed192223232624232223
Joined·+6+6+3+7+5+4+4+2
No longer listed·35347551
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $40k → $830k.

6 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS 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

DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% 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

73% 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 DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA.

13%
largest funder
34%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 87% · 2020 27% · 2021 38% · 2022 33% · 2023 40% — 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

36% of DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 6 states in all.

NY
CA
NC
DC
OK
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $197k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $39.4M on record.

Federal$39.4M
grants $39.4Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$24.3M
  • Social Security Administration$10.4M
  • Department of Education$4.7M

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 DISABILITY RIGHTS 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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 10%Fundraising 2%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA?
DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA (North Carolina) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,841,962 to it, the largest being Z SMITH REYNOLDS FOUNDATION INC ($515,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $3,841,962 in grants to DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA?
Z SMITH REYNOLDS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $515,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DISABILITY RIGHTS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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