North Carolina · Nonprofit
FORSYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND
FORSYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,245 to it, the largest being TIDES CENTER ($42,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $150k
What Forsyth County Community Bail Fund does
Mission
The Forsyth County Community Bail Fund uses donations to pay bail for people being held pre-trial on unaffordable bonds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The bail fund bailed out 57 people in 2025. Expenses include bank service fees post office box fee website hosting fee and bond that has been forfeited. Assets include bail we have already used to pay that is now in the court system waiting for the case it is attached to to be resolved so it can then be returned to us.
$18,376 spent100% of program spendingThe bail fund created educational flyers about our program services. We tabled at various events and engaged new community members and volunteers informing them about the purpose of the bail fund and well as providing civic education about the pretrial detention process. We also wrote and mailed letters to raise awareness about our services.
$76 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,452.
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. 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 $340k to $255k (−25%).
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.
100% of FORSYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Kit Kniss
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $23k → $32k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 FORSYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND’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
FORSYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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
99% 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 FORSYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 98% · 2021 62% — 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.
Where its funders are
77% of FORSYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
FORSYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND's revenue fell 99% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FORSYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND
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.
Public support
100%
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 FORSYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND: 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 FORSYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND?
- FORSYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,245 to it, the largest being TIDES CENTER ($42,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FORSYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $55,245 in grants to FORSYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FORSYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND?
- TIDES CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $42,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FORSYTH COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND 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 5 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