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Communities in Schools of North Carolina Inc

Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

$658k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$136k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$7.1MYouth Development$650kPublic Safety & Disaster$213kHuman Services$29kCommunity Improvement$15k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $252k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $380k
$25,932
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CIS OF CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG INC$135,842
CIS OF CAPE FEAR INC$89,103
CIS OF WAKE COUNTY$82,147
CIS OF BRUNSWICK COUNTY INC$73,187
CIS OF CHATHAM COUNTY INC$46,651
CIS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC$29,558
CIS OF CLEVELAND COUNTY INC$29,037
CIS OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC$28,760
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC$25,932
CIS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY$20,008
CIS OF THOMASVILLE INC$19,500
CIS OF LINCOLN COUNTY INC$17,690
CIS OF LEXINGTONDAVIDSON COUNTY INC$12,837
CIS OF ROBESON COUNTY INC$11,140
CIS OF ROWAN COUNTY INC$11,050
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $162k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CIS OF GASTON COUNTY: $41k → 12%CIS OF GASTON COUNTY: $37k → 12%CIS OF GASTON COUNTY: $33k → 12%CIS OF GASTON COUNTY: $27k → 12%CIS OF GASTON COUNTY: $25k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.5M · 19 repeat orgs$560k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
9

Total granted

$7.5M
$537k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
-8%

Still filing today

95%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CI
    Communities in Schools of Cape Fear Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +484%
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $658k · revenue +112%
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BRUNSWICK COUN
    8× · 2018–2025 · $494k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • LP
    LENOIR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2019 · $152k
  • OC
    Onslow County Schools
    one grant, 2019 · $150k
  • PC
    Pender County Schools
    one grant, 2019 · $73k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Communities in Schools of Va

Cis mission is to surround students with a community of support empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life

Education
2
Communities in Schools of Petersburg Inc

Communities in schools of petersburg surrounds students with a communiity of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Philanthropy
3
Communities in Schools of North Texas Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life

Human Services
4
Communities in Schools of Glynn County Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
5
Communities in Schools of North Central Washington

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Human Services
6
Communities in Schools of Eastern Pennsylvania Inc

The organization's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

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7
Communities in Schools Indiana

Surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Youth Development
8
Communities in Schools of Pennsylvania

The mission of communities in schools of pennsylvania, inc. is to champion the connection of needed community resources with schools to help young people successfully learn, stay in school and prepare for life.

Education
9
Communities in Schools of Rome-Floyd County Inc

Communities in schools surrounds students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school & achieve in life. it is the only dropout prevention organization proven to both lower dropout rates & increase graduation rates.

Education
10
Communities in Schools of South Carolina

Our mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
11
Communities Supporting Schools of Wayne County Inc

CSS' mission is to provide opportunities for students to stay in school, graduate, and be successful in life.

Education
12
Communities in Schools of Central Georgia Inc

Communities In Schools surrounds students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and acheive in life. Our goal is to support youth, improve graduation rates, academic acheivement and job and post-secondary school…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Schools of Cumberland County; the most unlike its peers is Communities in Schools of Greater Greensboro Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc: $1,988,923 · EducationCommunities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg IncCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC: $657,599 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INCCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BRUNSWICK COUN: $493,885 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BRUNSWICK COUNCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAKE COUNTY: $388,199 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAKE COUNTYCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THOMASVILLE NC: $335,455 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THOMASVILLE NCCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY: $230,777 · EducationCommunities in Schools of Cleveland County Inc: $190,781 · Education+4 more: $463,162 · Education+4 moreCommunities in Schools of Cape Fear Inc: $1,234,582 · Human ServicesCommunities in School…ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH COM: $253,473 · Human ServicesALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN…+1 more: $17,690 · Human ServicesCommunities in Schools of Greater Greensboro Inc: $393,984 · OtherCommunities in Scho…DURHAM DREAMS YOUTH MENTORSHIP FOUNDATION: $214,546 · OtherDURHAM DREAMS YOUTH…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE ROCKY MOUNT REGION INC: $209,390 · OtherCOMMUNITIES IN SCHO…LENOIR PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $152,161 · OtherLENOIR PUBLIC SCHOO…Onslow County Schools: $150,362 · OtherOnslow County Schoo…Pender County Schools: $72,653 · OtherCOLUMBUS COUNTY SCHOOLS: $60,411 · OtherPAMLICO COUNTY SCHOOLS: $46,165 · Other+6 more: $80,538 · Other+6 moreCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $412,455 · Youth DevelopmentCommunities in Schools of Lincoln County Inc: $7,300 · Religion
Education$4,748,781Human Services$1,505,745Other$1,380,210Youth Development$412,455Religion$7,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc: $1,988,923 over 9y, 7.1% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Cape Fear Inc: $1,234,582 over 9y, 8.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC: $657,599 over 7y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BRUNSWICK COUN: $493,885 over 8y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHATHAM COUNTY: $412,455 over 7y, 21% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Greater Greensboro Inc: $393,984 over 6y, 19% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAKE COUNTY: $388,199 over 5y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THOMASVILLE NC: $335,455 over 6y, 49% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH COM: $253,473 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RANDOLPH COUNTY: $230,777 over 6y, 14% of budgetDURHAM DREAMS YOUTH MENTORSHIP FOUNDATION: $214,546 over 4y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE ROCKY MOUNT REGION INC: $209,390 over 6y, 18% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Cleveland County Inc: $190,781 over 6y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY: $154,638 over 4y, 23% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HIGH POINT INC: $152,830 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $80,342 over 2y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF LEXINGTON /DAVIDSON COUNTY INC: $75,352 over 4y, 21% of budgetChildren FirstCommunities In Schools of Buncombe County Inc: $19,023 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $17,690 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Northwest North Carolina: $8,450 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Lincoln County Inc: $7,300 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Foundation for the Ca…North Carolina High S…Dollar General Litera…North Carolina Commun…Duke Energy FoundationThe Leon Levine Found…The Landfall Foundati…Share Our StrengthThe Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC19.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · North Carolina High School Athletic Association Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Landfall Foundation Inc · Share Our Strength · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Communities in Schools of North Carolina Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Communities in Schools of North Carolina Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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