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ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC

EIN 47-2740671 RALEIGH, NC

Revenue 2024
$3,462,065
Expenses 2024
$2,683,207

Program services were 70.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
S30
Classification
3000
Street
PO BOX 27421

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO BUILD POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC POWER IN BLACK COMMUNITIES AND INSTITUTIONS IN NORTH CAROLINA.

  • ORGANIZING/GOTV: IN 2024, WE INCREASED OUR FOCUS AND EFFORTS ON TOWARDS 365 YEAR-ROUND ORGANIZING IN AN EFFORT TO INCREASE VOTER TURNOUT IN TARGETED AND DISENFRANCHISED AREAS, REGARDLESS OF HOW THE MAPS WERE REDRAWN AS A RESULT OF THE REDISTRICTING EFFORTS. OUR ON THE GROUND EFFORTS AND INFRASTRUCTURE LAID PREVIOUSLY MEANT THAT WE COULD SPEND LESS CRITICAL TIME BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS AND LAYING FOUNDATION BUT CAN INSTEAD UTILIZE OUR RESOURCES TO FORTIFY AND EXPAND OUR PROGRAMMING TO INCREASE ENGAGEMENT AND TURNOUT. WE ARE ALIGNING OUR RESOURCES WITH STRATEGY TO EXPAND OUR COUNTY AND REGIONAL LEADERSHIP STRUCTURES BY ENHANCING OUR REGULAR PROGRAMMING WITH COUNTY TABLES AND REGIONAL SESSIONS. COMMUNICATING WITH A LOCAL LENS: NARROW POLICY AND ISSUE COMMUNICATION TO ENGAGE LOCAL VOTERS THROUGH COUNTY AND REGIONAL STRUCTURES, DEVELOPING LOCAL NARRATIVES AROUND ISSUES TO AID PROGRAMMATIC OFFERINGS, WITH AN EMPHASIS IN RURAL COUNTIES. YEAR ROUND ORGANIZING TO MAINTAIN OUR LOCAL PHYSICAL PRESENCE IN COMMUNITIES IN 2023 AND BEYOND BY EXTENDING AND EXPANDING OUR REGIONAL ORGANIZING HARBORS INTO NEW STRATEGIC COUNTIES, PROVIDING A PATHWAY TO CONSISTENT YEAR-ROUND PHYSICAL PRESENCE ACROSS THE STATE IN COMMUNITY. EXPANDING VOLUNTEER BASE: INCREASE THE VOLUNTEER BASE BY CREATING PATHWAYS OF ENGAGEMENT THROUGH ENGAGING LOCAL/STATE ISSUES, ENGAGE NEIGHBORHOODS AND VOTERS WITH SPORADIC VOTING HISTORY AND HOLDING REGULAR EVENTS TO ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY.

    Expenses $1,865,644 · Grants $224,956

  • ISSUE BASED ADVOCACY / OTHER PRIMARY PURPOSE PROGRAMMING: ANOTHER WAY OF FULFILLING OUR PRIMARY PURPOSE AS AN ORGANIZATION IS TO ASSIST RESIDENTS ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA BY CONNECTING ISSUES IN THEIR COMMUNITY TO THE POLITICAL PROCESS. IN 2024 ADVANCE CAROLINA PRODUCED SEVERAL PROGRAMS TO HELP RESIDENTS UNDERSTAND THE POLITICAL CONTEXT AND ELECTED OFFICES THAT IMPACT THEIR EVERYDAY LIVES.

    Expenses $10,502

  • ADVANCE NOTICE: OUR PODCAST ESTABLISHED TO HELP ADDRESS POLICY CONCERNS IN THESE ISSUE AREAS: ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM, HEALTHCARE, HOMELESSNESS, EDUCATION, CRIMINAL JUSTICE. THEY ARE RESEARCHED AND RESPONDED TO BY OUR ORGANIZATION. THIS ALLOWS INFORMATION TO BE SHARED ON A DIGITAL PLATFORM FOR MAXIMUM OUTREACH.

    Expenses $7,416

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • COURTNEY CROWDER

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KARA HOLLINGSWORTH

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SONIA BARNES

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VIOLA HARRIS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MOSES MATHEWS

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ERIN DALE MCCLELLAN

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DIONNE LESTER

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $85,706
    From this org
    $66,851
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,855
    Hours/week
    40

  • MARCUS BASS

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $103,616
    From this org
    $84,580
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,036
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,462,065
    Expenses
    $2,683,207
    Contributions
    $3,372,547
    Grants paid
    $224,956
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,580,606
    Expenses
    $1,267,410
    Contributions
    $1,569,099
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,758,556
    Expenses
    $1,978,388
    Contributions
    $1,756,166
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $822,828
    Expenses
    $948,089
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,914,392

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,386,511
    Expenses
    $1,741,344
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,127,978

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $561,341
    Expenses
    $356,626
    Assets (EOY)
    $364,070

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $423,848
    Expenses
    $373,838
    Assets (EOY)
    $156,934

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $165,990
    Expenses
    $227,153
    Assets (EOY)
    $107,797

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $536,851
    Expenses
    $437,321
    Assets (EOY)
    $169,165

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $103,325
    Expenses
    $61,070
    Assets (EOY)
    $42,255

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

  • GEORGE C SMIKINS MEMORIAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

    $50,000

    2024 MAXIMIZE VOTER PARTICIPATION OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN GUILFORD COUNTY

  • COLUMBUS COUNTY FORUM

    $45,000

    2024 TO EXPAND VOTER ACCESS TO THE POLLS IN 2024 PRIMARY ELECTION, AID IN PROVIDING GET OUT THE VOTE EFFORTS IN BLADEN AND COLUMBUS COUNTIES

  • RALEIGH WAKE CITIZENS ASSOCIATION

    $30,000

    2024 SUPPORT INITIATIVES TO INCREASE VOTER TURNOUT DURING EARLY VOTING AND ELECTION DAY COVERING 15 OUT OF 22 EARLY VOTING SITES IN RALEIGH AND WAKE COUNTY

  • BLADEN COUNTY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION

    $30,000

    2024 TO EMPOWER AND MOBILIZE VOTERS ACROSS COLUMBUS AND BLADEN COUTIES TO ENSURE SIGNIFICANT VOTER TURNOUT IN THE 2024 ELECTION

  • FORSYTH BLACK CAUCUS PAC

    $20,000

    2024 TO GALVANIZE ELECTED OFFICIALS, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, CHURCH AND PHILANTHROPIC COMMUNITIES TO LAUNCH FORSYTH COUNTY'S STRATEGIC PLAN FOR INCLUSION

  • 1000 WOMEN STRONG EDUCATION FUND

    $20,000

    2024 TO SUPPORT THE INITIATIVE TO BUILD CONSTITUENTS IN THE COMMUNITY, KEEP THOSE IN AUTHORITY ACCOUNTABLE TO THE PEOPLE, AND PROMOTE POLICIES THAT UPLIFT THE COMMUNITY

  • LET'S MAKE IT HAPPEN TOGETHER INC

    $15,000

    2024 TO PROVIDE GENERAL VOTER TURNOUT TRAINING IN HOKE AND SCOTLAND COUNTY TO INCREAE VOTER PARTICIPATION DURING EARLY VOTING AND ON ELECTION DAY

  • THE ENTITY ENTERPRISE

    $12,000

    2024 TO AID IN CANVASSING IN THE WASHINGTON, HYDE, AND BERTIE COUNTIES TO EMPHASIZE AND EDUCATE ON THE NEED TO VOTE FOR FOOD PANTRY CLIENTS AGES 18-45 YEARS OF AGE

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Not present in the most recent drop.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.