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Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina
Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina (North Carolina) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,505,677 to it, the largest being THE DUKE ENDOWMENT ($4,783,150). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina does
Mission
Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina Ensures that child maltreatment prevention is a priority for North Carolina and all communities have the knowledge, support, and resources to prevent child abuse and neglect.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
PCANC aims to promote positive relationships and environments for children and families, fostering hope and resilience. Impact of Family Resource Centers: 61 Family Resource Centers (FRCs) were supported statewide, serving as community hubs for families. After Hurricane Helene, FRCs provided immediate crisis assistance, including food, clothing, and shelter. PCANC coordinated support among FRCs to effectively meet community needs during recovery. Child Safeguarding Policies Implementation: Many youth-serving organizations lack comprehensive child safeguarding policies, risking gaps in protection. PCANC developed a toolkit to help organizations create effective safeguarding frameworks, resulting in 100% success among 38 participating FRCs. This initiative aims to make safeguarding policies standard practice across all youth-serving organizations in North Carolina. Empowering Parents Through Leadership: PCANC expanded the Circle of Parents program to enhance parent leadership and support networks. The program empowers parents to advocate for their needs and strengthen their families. Community Partnerships and Spotlights: PCANC highlights partnerships that enhance family support,…
$5,050,793 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,050,793.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $3.0M (+47%).
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: 2017 37% · 2018 20% · 2019 35% · 2021 33% · 2022 49% · 2023 35% · 2024 28% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Sharon Hirsch
President and CEO
Board chair
Michael Olander
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $110k → $1.1M.
11 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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
Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 42% · 2019 82% · 2020 68% · 2021 70% · 2022 85% · 2023 75% — growing more concentrated.
“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
26% of Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
98% of Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina'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. $439k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
Organizations like Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina: 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 Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina?
- Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina (North Carolina) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,505,677 to it, the largest being THE DUKE ENDOWMENT ($4,783,150). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina have?
- IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $6,505,677 in grants to Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina?
- THE DUKE ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $4,783,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina 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 34 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