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NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL SERVICES

NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL SERVICES (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $120,126 to it, the largest being EDDIE AND JO ALLISON SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($120,126). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$897k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$120k
Net assets
$1.6M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What North Carolina Association of County Directors of Social Services does

Mission

The North Carolina Association of County Directors of Social Services is a future-oriented source of leadership for its members, policy makers, partners, and the general public, that improves public policy and strenghtens the capacity of local county departments of social services to delivery effective services to families and individuals.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Conducted meetings and conferences to educate individuals on social issues, state and federal programs, and funding while promoting the advancement of improved social conditions in our society.

    $452,600 spent$688,579 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $452,600.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($346k) Expenses 100 ($374k) Net assets 100 ($718k)2018 Revenue 177 ($614k) Expenses 140 ($526k) Net assets 112 ($807k)2019 Revenue 146 ($507k) Expenses 133 ($497k) Net assets 114 ($817k)2020 Revenue 196 ($679k) Expenses 143 ($534k) Net assets 134 ($961k)2021 Revenue 105 ($365k) Expenses 96 ($358k) Net assets 135 ($968k)2022 Revenue 129 ($445k) Expenses 114 ($427k) Net assets 137 ($987k)2023 Revenue 270 ($934k) Expenses 160 ($598k) Net assets 184 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 230 ($797k) Expenses 202 ($754k) Net assets 190 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 259 ($897k) Expenses 177 ($662k) Net assets 223 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (259)Expenses (177)Net assets (223)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $1.5M (+30%).

$782k
$869k
$948k
$1.0M
$1.0M
$1.2M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.9M
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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

Government-grant reliance: 2017 27% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

21% of NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$28k
’17
$88k
’18
$10k
’19
$144k
’20
$7k
’21
$19k
’22
$335k
’23
$42k
’24
$234k
’25
31
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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Listed16151716161661313
Joined·+3+5+4+1+1+2+8+5
No longer listed·435111215
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL SERVICES’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.

Where its funders are

100% of NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL SERVICES's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin26% · top quartile
Months of reserve31.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL SERVICES

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In North Carolina

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 32%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

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Questions and answers

Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL SERVICES?
NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL SERVICES (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $120,126 to it, the largest being EDDIE AND JO ALLISON SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($120,126). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL SERVICES have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $120,126 in grants to NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL SERVICES.
Who is the largest funder of NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL SERVICES?
EDDIE AND JO ALLISON SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $120,126 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY DIRECTORS OF SOCIAL SERVICES 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 1 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