North Carolina · Nonprofit
OAK CITY CARES INC
OAK CITY CARES INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,547,494 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC ($404,594). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Oak City Cares Inc does
Mission
Oak city cares is a public-private partnership that exists to support the self-determination of our neighbors experiencing homelessness through trusting relationships and connections to coordinated services that increase their ability to be safely and stably housed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Coordinated care program: oak city cares' coordinated care program serves as a point of entry into homeless and housing services for those experiencing homelessness and housing crises in wake county. Care coordinators conduct intake assessments and then connect guests to emergency shelter, onsite medical and behavioral health providers, medicaid and snap benefits, and many more onsite services. This coordinated approach aims to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring in wake county. During this fiscal year, oak city cares stabilized a total of 194 households in housing through the care coordination program.
$1,246,284 spentof which $304,255 as grants73% of program spendingWeekend meals program: oak city cares serves about 1,850 meals each weekend to approximately 1103 unduplicated individuals. Many of these individuals are experiencing homelessness and have no other access to food/meal programs during the weekends, and others are our community members experiencing food insecurity. During this fiscal year, oak city cares' weekend meals program served a total of 74,561 meals.
$211,921 spentof which $3,030 as grants12% of program spendingBasic needs program: guests of oak city cares are provided with access to showers, laundry, a hospitality area with coffee, computers, and cell phone charging stations. Volunteers play important roles by helping guests feel a sense of connection to a community, helping to renew hope. These services are essential for those experiencing homelessness to move them forward onto their pathway to housing. During this fiscal year, oak city cares' basic needs program provided 43,827 services to 5,982 unduplicated individuals.
$259,137 spentof which $65,648 as grants15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,717,342.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $2.2M (+22%).
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: 2019 2% · 2020 21% · 2021 36% · 2022 28% · 2023 38% · 2024 31% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of OAK CITY CARES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Michael Debender
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $70k → $367k.
12 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 OAK CITY CARES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
OAK CITY CARES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
52% 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 OAK CITY CARES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 36% · 2020 25% · 2021 28% · 2022 24% · 2023 14% — 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
63% of OAK CITY CARES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
89% of OAK CITY CARES 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. $669k 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
OAK CITY CARES INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OAK CITY CARES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $504k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$504k
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 OAK CITY CARES 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 OAK CITY CARES 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 OAK CITY CARES INC?
- OAK CITY CARES INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,547,494 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC ($404,594). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OAK CITY CARES INC have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $2,547,494 in grants to OAK CITY CARES INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OAK CITY CARES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC is the largest funder on record, with $404,594 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OAK CITY CARES 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 53 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