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NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC
NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,520,946 to it, the largest being Z SMITH REYNOLDS FOUNDATION INC ($977,298). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What North Carolina Center for Nonprofit Organizations Inc does
Mission
North carolina's nonprofit sector is a vital leader in building and sustaining equitable and thriving communities. The north carolina center for nonprofits strives to educate, connect, and advocate for north carolina nonprofits.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Innovate learning: the north carolina center for nonprofits trained 4,800 community leaders this year through 83 presentations, webinars, and workshops across the state about best practices in nonprofit governance, leadership, and management. These trainings provided opportunities for nonprofit board and staff members to strengthen community assets, exchange solutions to problems, share the lessons they have learned, and offer support to each other in their challenging work. Topics included major donor strategies and capturing the next generation of big donors, leveraging analytics and genai to thrive, feeling good about giving difficult feedback, preparing for and managing change in an evolving world, and nurturing a sustainable mission- driven culture. During these training activities, we: - educated 504 nonprofit leaders about emerging issues and best practices at our 2024 statewide conference. This two-day in-person conference featured a keynote from amber melanie smith, who shared a presentation focused on sustaining and sparking passion for nonprofit leadership. The event featured 15 concurrent sessions tackling a wide variety of nonprofit management topics as well as a…
$616,485 spent$183,490 earned by the program41% of program spendingChampion the sector: the center advocated on state and federal public policy issues that enable 501(c)(3) nonprofits throughout north carolina to effectively deliver programs and services to the people and communities they serve. The center also kept nc nonprofit staff and board members informed about state and federal legislative, regulatory, and judicial actions that could affect their organizations through weekly email updates, white papers, and trainings.
$399,112 spent$19,155 earned by the program26% of program spendingValue our members: the north carolina center for nonprofits provided a range of member benefits, programs, and services designed to enhance knowledge of nonprofit management. Over 7,300 board members, staff, and volunteers from more than 1,200 member nonprofits benefited from these offerings. By the end of fy24 -25, the center had a total of 1,154 members, including 217 new members. Members have exclusive access to over 800 vetted resources through the center's comprehensive online resource library. Additionally, they can submit inquiries on nonprofit management topics-from board governance to public policy-via the member assistance tool, where staff provide expert guidance. In total, the center managed 63 member assistance cases, with the most common inquiries focused on fundraising & philanthropy, financial management, board governance, legal issues, and human resources. The center also delivers pro bono support across six key program areas: legal, marketing, human resources, accounting, coaching, and executive transition. In fy24-25, the center responded to 201 pro bono cases-89 in legal, 44 in accounting, 29 in human resources, 16 in coaching, 19 in marketing, and 4 in…
$237,639 spent16% of program spendingCultivate connections: the center offered opportunities for both nonprofits and businesses to promote their programs, services, products, or open staff positions to north carolina nonprofits. The center had more than 60 businesses listed in its business finder directory, a searchable database for nonprofits looking for services around accounting, diversity, equity, and inclusion, insurance services, and technology. Nc nonprofit careers, the center's online jobs board, provided over 700 job postings for job seekers looking to work in north carolina's nonprofit sector. The nonprofit marketplace brought 30 exhibitors at the in-person 2024 conference. In fy25 the center offered three publications: principles & practices: best practices for north carolina nonprofits; toolkit for organizational resiliency; and the legal compliance checklist for north carolina nonprofits. Strive to model best practices: the center continues its ongoing work to better understand the capacity building challenges nonprofits face, the make-up of its current and potential members and program audience, potential revenue opportunities, and operational costs. Since the center welcomed a new president and ceo in…
$263,567 spent$108,231 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,516,803.
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 $1.6M to $2.1M (+34%).
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: 2021 10% · 2022 8% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Dawn Chavez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $28k → $653k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS 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
NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 66% · 2019 54% · 2020 72% · 2021 45% · 2022 55% · 2023 50% — 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
44% of NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
94% of NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS 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. $915k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Nc Center for Nonprofits Ins Trust · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS 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 NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC?
- NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,520,946 to it, the largest being Z SMITH REYNOLDS FOUNDATION INC ($977,298). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $2,520,946 in grants to NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS INC?
- Z SMITH REYNOLDS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $977,298 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS 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.
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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 24 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