North Carolina · Nonprofit
Donate Life North Carolina
Donate Life North Carolina (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,498 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($5,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $291k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $67k
What Donate Life North Carolina does
Mission
The mission of Donate Life NC is to actively inspire others to give the gift of life through organ, eye, and tissue donation. This is accomplished through outreach, education, advertising, participating in community health fairs and other events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
DMV Outreach: Donate Life North Carolina provides in-depth training for all new DMV Examiners in the state of North Carolina. In FY25, 28 of these special trainings took place.Additionally, continuing education to DMV staff about organ, tissue and eye donation was delivered to each of the 115 DMV offices in North Carolina. Awards were presented to the DMV offices with the highest donor designation rates.Over 40 Donate Life North Carolina Volunteers supported our DMV outreach ensuring reach to every DMV in North Carolina.
$68,300 spent37% of program spendingTeen Outreach: Teen engagement remains a priority at Donate Life North Carolina. We distributed curriculum materials aimed at high school students across the state. In FY25, Donate Life North Carolina participated in 3 conferences to reach health educators and driving instructors, offering materials and support for the classroom. Workingin collaboration with HOSA (Health Occupations Student Association) chapters across the state, Donate Life North Carolina supported in-person classroom presentations and chapter activities. Donate Life North Carolina also attended the Statewide HOSA conference in 2025. Additionally, Donate Life North Carolina, supported the 5SODA (Student Organ Donation Advocates) chapters in the state, including the 3 chapters at colleges including Duke, Wake Forest and Meredith College.
$40,472 spent22% of program spendingWebsite & Registry Management: Donate Life North Carolina maintains the state organ, eye and tissue donor registry, including making updates, adjustments and repairs as needed. More than 3,000 people joined the registry through the online registry option on the Donate Life North Carolina website during this period.In FY25, Donate Life North Carolina embarked on a significant upgrade to our website and registry. Work will be completed in late 2025 and will include new two-factor authentication, new reporting capability, and other security upgrades for all users.
$23,517 spent13% of program spendingPublic Outreach: In addition to outreach at large public events, conferences and speaking engagements, Donate Life North Carolina focused on broad public outreach and advocacy in the state of North Carolina.Our social media, email marketing and media engagements drew wide attention to the need for more registered donors. During FY25, monthly newsletters reached over 5,000 recipients and our social media audiences on Facebook and Instagram continued to grow.
$22,909 spent12% of program spendingLiving Donor Program: Donate Life North Carolina continues to highlight the unique opportunity for living donation across the state. Volunteers, personally touched by living donation, spoke atmeetings and outreach events about living donation. Living donor awareness was highlighted at 8 in-person events in FY25.Living donation was also a focus of Donate Life North Carolina's 2 signature events (Hero Runs) in FY25.
$19,705 spent11% of program spendingMulticultural Outreach: Donate Life North Carolina participated in 14 large public events across North Carolina targeting multicultural, rural and underserved communities in FY25. These events ranged from health fairs to community events, concerts and conferences.Each event offered a unique opportunity to reach a specific audience with information about donation and transplant.Over 200 new donors were registered "live" through these events and outreach. Thousands were educated about the myths and misconceptions of donation
$10,079 spent5% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $184,982.
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 2018 to 2019, from $305k to $233k (−23%).
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 70% · 2018 64% · 2019 64% · 2020 69% · 2021 66% · 2022 41% · 2023 52% · 2024 51% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Donate Life North Carolina’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Board chair
Carrie Simpkins
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $4k → $444.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 Donate Life 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
Donate Life North Carolina leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 Donate Life North Carolina.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 65% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
88% of Donate Life 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 $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
Donate Life North Carolina is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Donate Life 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
58% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 Donate Life North Carolina: 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 Donate Life North Carolina?
- Donate Life North Carolina (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,498 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($5,600). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Donate Life North Carolina have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $8,498 in grants to Donate Life North Carolina, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Donate Life North Carolina?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Donate Life 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 3 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