Charlotte Center For Legal Advocact Inc.

Charlotte Center For Legal Advocacy Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, is a grant recipient delivering direct legal services to low-income taxpayers, homeless and at-risk veterans, and unaccompanied immigrant children, with secondary activity as a subcontractor to larger legal-services primes. The organization competes primarily as a grant recipient (81% of recent awards) under federal grant programs rather than federal contracts, with primary funding from the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The organization's federal footprint centers on three distinct legal-services programs. Under the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) program (CFDA 21.008), Charlotte Center For Legal Advocacy received a $171,603 project grant from the Internal Revenue Service effective January 1, 2026, through December 31, 2028, to provide tax representation, educational activities, and advocacy on tax matters to low-income taxpayers and non-native English speakers with household incomes not exceeding 250 percent of federal poverty guidelines. The award requires dollar-for-dollar matching contributions from the recipient. Under the Legal Services for Homeless Veterans and Veterans At-Risk for Homelessness Grant Program (CFDA 64.056), the Department of Veterans Affairs awarded Charlotte Center For Legal Advocacy $450,894 (effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2027) and an earlier $175,000 project grant (August 1, 2024) to deliver legal representation, advice, education, and advocacy across housing law, family law, income support, criminal defense, healthcare access, military discharge upgrades, consumer law, and employment law, with a requirement to dedicate at least 10 percent of funding to serve women veterans. The organization also acts as a subrecipient under a Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service Inc. grant for safe release support services (April 1, 2024).

Customer concentration is narrow and stable. The Internal Revenue Service accounts for the vast majority of awards (23 of 32 total awards, 97% coverage), with the Department of Veterans Affairs (3 awards) and the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families (3 awards) representing secondary customers. As a subcontractor, Charlotte Center For Legal Advocacy partners exclusively with Acacia Center For Justice on legal services for unaccompanied children under the Office of Refugee Resettlement, with five documented sub-awards between April and September 2025 covering legal services, unaccompanied alien children (UAC) services, and legal services for children in continued state custody.

Activity has been episodic rather than growth-oriented. The organization received three awards in 2020, six in 2023, and four each in 2024 and 2025, with one award in 2026. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $4.9 million. Only one award reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, limiting near-term recompete exposure. Service Contract Inventory data captures minimal activity — one SCI record in FY2024 as a named subcontractor, reflecting 5.8 FTEs on that single sub-award — and does not reflect the grant-funded legal work that forms the organization's primary federal footprint. The organization may utilize approved subrecipients in limited circumstances with advance approval from grantor agencies.