North Carolina · Nonprofit
JUNIOR CHARITY LEAGUE OF SHELBY INC
JUNIOR CHARITY LEAGUE OF SHELBY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,000 to it, the largest being Dover Foundation Inc ($117,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
JUNIOR CHARITY LEAGUE OF SHELBY INC has grown faster than half of the 9,089 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,089 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Cleveland County Partnership for Children Inclocal
- Renasant Community Foundationportfolio match
- Chattanooga Area Food Bank Incportfolio match
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.
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.
0% of JUNIOR CHARITY LEAGUE OF SHELBY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of JUNIOR CHARITY LEAGUE OF SHELBY INC’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
JUNIOR CHARITY LEAGUE OF SHELBY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 71% · 2019 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 95% · 2022 45% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
90% of JUNIOR CHARITY LEAGUE OF SHELBY 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. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 132 organizations that share them.
- Cleveland County Partnership for Children InclocalNC · funds 12 organizations near you
- Renasant Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chattanooga Area Food Bank Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rhi Legacy Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bca Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- East Carolina Healthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hedrick Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community-Campus Partnerships for Healthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jason T Dickerson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harold H Bate Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gibson Community Hospital Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like JUNIOR CHARITY LEAGUE OF SHELBY INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JUNIOR CHARITY LEAGUE OF SHELBY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds JUNIOR CHARITY LEAGUE OF SHELBY INC?
- JUNIOR CHARITY LEAGUE OF SHELBY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,000 to it, the largest being Dover Foundation Inc ($117,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JUNIOR CHARITY LEAGUE OF SHELBY INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $158,000 in grants to JUNIOR CHARITY LEAGUE OF SHELBY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JUNIOR CHARITY LEAGUE OF SHELBY INC?
- Dover Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $117,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JUNIOR CHARITY LEAGUE OF SHELBY 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.
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 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing