North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE OUTREACH CENTER
THE OUTREACH CENTER (North Carolina) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,498 to it, the largest being BURKE COUNTY UNITED WAY ($120,128). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $341k
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What The Outreach Center does
Mission
The mission of The Outreach Center is to assist disadvantaged citizens to rise above circumstances and improve their quality of life. This is done through food distribution, education, and job skills training.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Programs
Food distribution: The Outreach Center provides impoverished families from burke, caldwell, catawba, mcdowell and surrounding counties with free groceries on a weekly basis. The Outreach Center operates its food distribution assistance program in such a way that each family receives individual assistance as they are being served. Each family is treated with loving kindness and is offered spiritual support in the course of the their experience. The Outreach Centers community food bank program provides charitable non profit organizations , homeless shelters, group homes schools and other agencies food, toiletry items and other supplies for their clients and students.
$14,216,635 spentof which $13,362,812 as grants$624,091 earned by the program100% of program spendingFresh start education services: fresh start provides free basic adult education, ged preparation, learning skills training, computer literacy, employment skills, education and assistance, resume writing an job search and college preparation assistance. In additon to this adult program, fresh start also engages in an annual back to school build a backpack program in conjunction with the united way for school age children. This youth program provides book bags, clothing , shoes and school supplies for children in need at the start of the school year.
Wow program offers music and arts experiences for underserved children in the community
The 3 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,216,635.
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 $2.0M to $2.5M (+21%).
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 4% · 2020 1% · 2021 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of THE OUTREACH CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Holly Johnson
Executive director
Board chair
Anne Woodard
Chairman
As listed on its FY2021 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $55k → $8k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 OUTREACH CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 21 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 OUTREACH CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 67%; 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 THE OUTREACH CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 61% · 2019 74% · 2020 45% · 2021 28% · 2022 68% · 2023 60% — broadly stable.
“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
38% of THE OUTREACH CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
93% of THE OUTREACH CENTER'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. $76k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
THE OUTREACH CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,923 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,923 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2021
Organizations like THE OUTREACH CENTER
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 THE OUTREACH CENTER: 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 OUTREACH CENTER?
- THE OUTREACH CENTER (North Carolina) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,498 to it, the largest being BURKE COUNTY UNITED WAY ($120,128). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE OUTREACH CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $341,498 in grants to THE OUTREACH CENTER, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE OUTREACH CENTER?
- BURKE COUNTY UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $120,128 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE OUTREACH CENTER 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 21 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