North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence

Analysis

North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence is a registered charity in United States, based in Durham, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2000, 26 years ago. Its declared purposes cover civil rights, social action and advocacy, which this site groups under human rights and equality. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence reported income of $769k and spending of $825k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $412k to $769k (+87%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 97%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Carolina Migrant Network Inc ($768k), Muslim Community Network Inc ($769k) and Cameron County Children Advocacy Centers Inc ($768k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $187k (23% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $440k. At year end it held assets of $120k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $120k. It reported 11 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.