North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE RELATIVES INC
THE RELATIVES INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,911,535 to it, the largest being MERANCAS FOUNDATION INC ($1,700,000). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 88
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $9.9M
What The Relatives Inc does
Mission
To keep kids safe, families together, and to prepare youth and young adults to be healthy, productive, and engaged members of the community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The on ramp is a resource center that helps young adults 16-24 transition from circumstances like foster care, mental health programs, homelessness and unstable living situations to successful adulthood. In fy 2025, served 984 clients (149 case management, 835 resource center).
$1,571,938 spent$2,081 earned by the program36% of program spendingScattered site housing provides case management and scattered site housing to young adults ages 18-24 who are at risk, experiencing homelessness, or fleeing domestic violence situations. Residents of our housing program receive the necessary support to find or maintain employment, enroll in school, or even find affordable childcare. Through our housing program, residents are able to safely transition from crisis to stability. In fy 2025, served 118 clients.
$1,230,369 spent28% of program spendingThe crisis center provides shelter for runaways and youth ages 7-17, 24 hour crisis hotline, walk-in counseling, after care services and parenting support. In fy 2025, served 2,085 clients (182 residential, 74 walk-ins, 1,829 crisis calls).
$1,108,362 spent$384 earned by the program25% of program spendingNeighborcare, safe place, admin
$457,225 spent$35,076 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,367,894.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.1M to $9.3M (+82%).
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 39% · 2018 34% · 2019 33% · 2020 33% · 2021 24% · 2022 44% · 2023 37% · 2024 39% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE RELATIVES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
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
Shelley McLean
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $334k → $2.4M.
21 of 88 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 RELATIVES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 88 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 RELATIVES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
57% 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 RELATIVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 25% · 2019 18% · 2020 30% · 2021 16% · 2022 21% · 2023 25% — 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
60% of THE RELATIVES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
91% of THE RELATIVES 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. $6.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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 RELATIVES INC has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE RELATIVES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.9M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$587k
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 THE RELATIVES 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Alexander Youth Network · exempt
- Alexander Children's Foundation Inc · exempt
- Youth Focus Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE RELATIVES 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 THE RELATIVES INC?
- THE RELATIVES INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 88 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,911,535 to it, the largest being MERANCAS FOUNDATION INC ($1,700,000). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE RELATIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 88 organizations giving $12,911,535 in grants to THE RELATIVES INC, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE RELATIVES INC?
- MERANCAS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE RELATIVES 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.
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 88 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