North Carolina · Nonprofit
LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC
LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,208,908 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($109,327,330). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $48M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $123M
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc does
Mission
Legal aid of north carolina is a statewide, nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services in civil matters to low-income people in order to ensure equal access to justice and to remove legal barriers to economic opportunity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Legal aid of north carolina is a statewide, nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services in civil matters to low-income people in order to ensure equal access to justice and to remove legal barriers to economic opportunity. Lanc focuses its advocacy on cases that affect its clients' basic human needs - safety from violence, shelter and income - and cases involving systemic and structural injustices and inequalities that broadly affect low-income north carolinians. Lanc's core cases involve domestic violence, housing, public benefits, consumer rights, employment, education, health care, and disaster relief and recovery. Clients are generally people with incomes below 125% of the federal poverty level. Three-quarters of our clients are women, many of whom have minor children. In 2023, lanc handled over 27,000 cases in 100 counties of north carolina. Lanc has 23 office locations and operates 13 statewide or regional projects that focus on discrete areas of law or serve special client populations. Lanc is a full-service law firm that provides a comprehensive array of services to clients, from advice and brief service to full representation in court. Lanc also conducts…
$42,508,610 spentof which $5,608,581 as grants$1,090,093 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $42,508,610.
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 2019 to 2020, from $7.5M to $21M (+174%).
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 77% · 2018 80% · 2019 75% · 2020 82% · 2021 80% · 2022 83% · 2023 69% · 2024 77% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Jeff Kelly
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $392k → $21M.
16 of 74 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $573k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest North Carolina Bar Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 funders by total. 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
LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 95% · 2019 93% · 2020 96% · 2021 95% · 2022 94% · 2023 95% — 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.
How long its funders stay
45% of LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC is better cushioned than half of the 165 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 165 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $36.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$31.3M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.3M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$950k
- Department of Justice$300k
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 LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC?
- LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,208,908 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($109,327,330). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $123,208,908 in grants to LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $109,327,330 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA 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 74 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