North Carolina · Nonprofit
NORTH CAROLINA CENTER ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE
NORTH CAROLINA CENTER ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,281,842 to it, the largest being AJ FLETCHER FOUNDATION ($562,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence does
Mission
To provide investigative and legal services to unrepresented northcarolina inmates claiming innocence and to provide education oncriminal justice reform iniatives that can increase the reliability ofoutcomes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Expenses and contributions associated with investigation of claims of innocence by unrepresented north carolina inmates
$1,093,794 spent$1,766 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,093,794.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $120k to $2.8M (+2242%).
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: 2020 14% · 2021 34% · 2022 29% · 2023 23% · 2024 26% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of NORTH CAROLINA CENTER ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Christine Mumma
Executive director
Board chair
Jon Powell
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $200k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE’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 ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 100% · 2019 60% · 2020 60% · 2021 41% · 2022 51% · 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
75% of NORTH CAROLINA CENTER ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
88% of NORTH CAROLINA CENTER ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE'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. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE has grown faster than half of the 431 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NORTH CAROLINA CENTER ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.2M
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 NORTH CAROLINA CENTER ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
44%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTH CAROLINA CENTER ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE: 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 ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE?
- NORTH CAROLINA CENTER ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,281,842 to it, the largest being AJ FLETCHER FOUNDATION ($562,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH CAROLINA CENTER ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,281,842 in grants to NORTH CAROLINA CENTER ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH CAROLINA CENTER ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE?
- AJ FLETCHER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $562,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH CAROLINA CENTER ON ACTUAL INNOCENCE 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 13 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