North Carolina · Nonprofit
The Center for Community Transitions
The Center for Community Transitions (North Carolina) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,834,938 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($1,148,089). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What The Center for Community Transitions does
Mission
CCT strengthens our community by helping people with criminal records find a healthier and more productive way of living. Our work provides employment and transition services: supports alternatives to incarceration: and restores and strengthens family bonds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Center for Women is a 30-bed contract residential work release facility for women nearing the end of their state prison sentence (12-36 mths). Governed by NC Department of Adult Correction (NCDAC) policies, the program includes work release, study release, financial education, family reunification, community volunteers, prison ministry, and behavioral health services that include individual and group counseling, substance use disorder programs, and peer support.
$811,935 spent$682,307 earned by the program50% of program spendingLifeWorks is a supportive employment program that provides formerly incarcerated and justice-involved individuals with the skills, tools, and resources to find and keep employment, including: pre/post criminal thinking assessment, goal-setting, employment readiness, job retention, employer networking, financial literacy, personal branding, intensive client advisment, transportation assistance, and community partner referrals for basic needs (ie. food, housing, etc.). The goal of the LifeWorks program is to provide the conditions for clients to shift criminogenic thinking and behaviors to those that better match their personal values of personal success and life fulfillment.
$537,035 spent$420,182 earned by the program33% of program spendingFamily Support Expenses
$153,446 spent9% of program spendingBehavorial Health provides personalized support to Center for Women residents through client-centered treatment grounded in compassion and personal accountability.
$121,078 spent$110,764 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,623,494.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.9M to $2.4M (−19%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Shamira N Wright
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $246k → $454k.
8 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 The Center for Community Transitions’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
The Center for Community Transitions has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
46% 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 The Center for Community Transitions.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 61% · 2019 40% · 2020 31% · 2021 51% · 2022 20% · 2023 22% — 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
42% of The Center for Community Transitions's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
86% of The Center for Community Transitions'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. $516k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 The Center for Community Transitions
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Center for Community Transitions: 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 The Center for Community Transitions?
- The Center for Community Transitions (North Carolina) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,834,938 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($1,148,089). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Center for Community Transitions have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $3,834,938 in grants to The Center for Community Transitions, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Center for Community Transitions?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,148,089 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Center for Community Transitions 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 36 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