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Moving NC Forward

Moving NC Forward (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,025,000 to it, the largest being DEMOCRACY PROJECT II ($800,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.0M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$2.0M
Net assets
$2.2M
3/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 65%
01What it does

What Moving NC Forward does

Mission

To support and advocate for policies that advance economic growth, stronger schools, tolerance, and fair and legal electoral districts.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide Strategic Consultation and Advice on Organization Goals and Mission

    $442,225 spent
    32% of program spending
  2. Conducted conferences to educate citizens on the issues related to the mission of Moving NC Forward

    $106,256 spent
    8% of program spending
  3. Conducted public opinion research on issues relating to Mission Statement

    $10,000 spent
    1% of program spending
  4. Grants to other organizations to further Mission

    $800,000 spentof which $800,000 as grants
    58% of program spending
  5. Community Engagement Organizing

    $30,000 spent
    2% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,388,481.

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 ($370k) Expenses 100 ($120k) Net assets 100 ($250k)2018 Revenue 250 ($925k) Expenses 626 ($751k) Net assets 169 ($424k)2019 Revenue 311 ($1.2M) Expenses 756 ($908k) Net assets 267 ($669k)2020 Revenue 245 ($907k) Expenses 847 ($1.0M) Net assets 223 ($558k)2021 Revenue 322 ($1.2M) Expenses 563 ($676k) Net assets 430 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 361 ($1.3M) Expenses 1064 ($1.3M) Net assets 454 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 150 ($554k) Expenses 770 ($924k) Net assets 306 ($764k)2024 Revenue 242 ($894k) Expenses 765 ($918k) Net assets 296 ($740k)2025 Revenue 820 ($3.0M) Expenses 1339 ($1.6M) Net assets 867 ($2.2M)
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Revenue (820)Expenses (1339)Net assets (867)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $740k to $2.2M (+193%).

$250k
$424k
$669k
$558k
$1.1M
$1.1M
$764k
$740k
$2.2M
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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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$250k
’17
$174k
’18
$245k
’19
−$110k
’20
$517k
’21
$59k
’22
−$370k
’23
−$24k
’24
$1.4M
’25
16
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.

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Listed333333333
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·00000010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $110k.

1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 Moving NC Forward’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

Moving NC Forward leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% 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 Moving NC Forward.

40%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 78% · 2020 69% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 55% — 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

14% of Moving NC Forward's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

Moving NC Forward draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 5 states in all.

MI
MA
VA
NC
DC

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $315k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Moving NC Forward

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

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 6%Fundraising 8%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Moving NC Forward: 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 Moving NC Forward?
Moving NC Forward (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,025,000 to it, the largest being DEMOCRACY PROJECT II ($800,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Moving NC Forward have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $2,025,000 in grants to Moving NC Forward, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Moving NC Forward?
DEMOCRACY PROJECT II is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Moving NC Forward 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 10 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