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North Carolina High School Athletic Association Inc

The mission of the nchsaa is to provide governance and leadership for interscholastic athletic programs in north carolina that support and enrich the educational experience of students; the administration of the state's interscholastic education-based athletics programs for its member high schools in nc through a memorandum of…

$4.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$4.2M
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 2024.

Recreation & Sports$22MEducation$8.2M
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $4,206,335, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,360,107 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $153,772 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $250k+1 grant · $4.2M
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NCHSAA FOUNDATION$4,155,855
JOHNSTON COUNTY SCHOOLS$40,000
FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL$5,400
TOPSAIL HIGH SCHOOL$5,080
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 17% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NCHSAA FOUNDATION: $18.3M → 9%HOUGH WA HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 10%HILLSIDE HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 11%MURPHY: $17k → 15%EAST SURRY: $17k → 17%FARMVILLE CENTRAL: $23k → 20%ROLESVILLE HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 8%NCHSAA FOUNDATION: $4.2M → 9%PINECREST HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 10%HOKE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 15%LUMBERTON HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 26%COX MILL: $17k → 8%WEDDINGTON: $20k → 7%CAPE FEAR: $21k → 16%WEDDINGTON: $18k → 7%HOGGARD JOHN T HIGH SCHOOL: $18k → 12%MOUNT AIRY: $17k → 17%SOUTH CENTRAL: $18k → 20%LEESVILLE ROAD HIGH SCHOOL: $18k → 8%JOHNSTON COUNTY SCHOOLS: $40k → 10%LANEY EA HIGH SCHOOL: $18k → 12%FUQUAY - VARINA HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 13%ATHENS DRIVE HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 8%NEW HANOVER HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 12%MARVIN RIDGE: $18k → 7%BROUGHTON NEEDHAM HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 8%ASHLEY HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 12%MILLBROOK HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 8%WAKEFIELD HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 8%PAGE WALTER HINES HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 16%PANTHER CREEK HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 8%ENLOE W G HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 8%WEST FORSYTH HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 15%MOUNT TABOR HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 15%HOLLY SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 8%NORTH MECKLENBURG HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 10%CHARLOTTE CATHOLIC: $18k → 10%MYERS PARK HIGH SCHOOL: $21k → 10%ARDREY KELL HIGH SCHOOL: $20k → 10%SOUTH MECKLENBURG HIGH SCHOOL: $19k → 10%APEX FRIENDSHIP HIGH SCHOOL: $18k → 8%INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 10%APEX HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 8%OLYMPIC HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 10%MALLARD CREEK HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 10%PROVIDENCE HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 10%EAST MECKLENBURG HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 10%WAKE FOREST HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 8%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 87 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

87 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 83 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
76

Total granted

$29M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+28%

Still filing today

13%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • CS
    COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF DAVIDSON INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $32k · revenue +69%
  • LN
    LAKE NORMAN CHARTER SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2021 · $29k · revenue +115%
  • LC
    Lincoln Charter School Inc
    3× · 2017–2021 · $28k · revenue +107%

Funded once

  • DP
    DURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2021 · $90k
  • HC
    Harnett County Public Schools
    one grant, 2021 · $58k
  • HC
    HENDERSON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2021 · $55k
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
Carolina Charter Academy

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
2
North East Carolina Preparatory School Inc

North east carolina preparatory school is a public charter school serving grades k-12 in tarboro, north carolina.

Education
3
Summit Charter School

Operation of a North Carolina public charter school.

Education
4
Pioneer Springs Community School Inc

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
5
Community Public Charter School

Operation of a North Carolina public charter school.

Education
6
Raleigh Oak Charter School Inc

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
7
Wake Preparatory Academy

Operation of a North Carolina public charter school

Education
8
Piedmont Classical High School

Education as a public charter school

Education
9
Global Scholars Academy (Gsa)

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
10
United Community School Inc

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
11
American Leadership Academy - Charlotte

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
12
Guilford Charter School Corporation

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Charter Educational Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nchsaa Foundation 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

41 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. 41 of the 163 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
37/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NCHSAA FOUNDATION INC: $22,413,859 · Recreation & SportsNCHSAA FOUNDATION INCWAKE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $573,462 · OtherWAKE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLSCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG SCHOOLS: $481,527 · OtherCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG SCHOOL…Guilford Co Public Schools: $366,171 · OtherUNION COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $310,695 · Other+119 more: $5,978,771 · Other+119 moreCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF DAVIDSON INC: $32,422 · EducationLAKE NORMAN CHARTER SCHOOL: $29,361 · EducationLincoln Charter School Inc: $27,980 · EducationPine Lake Preparatory: $22,733 · EducationTHE FRANKLIN ACADEMY INC: $22,207 · EducationHENDERSON COLLEGIATE INC: $22,035 · EducationROXBORO COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $21,920 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA CHARTER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $18,711 · EducationUNION ACADEMY: $16,798 · Education+28 more: $269,752 · EducationThomas Jefferson Community Education Foundation Inc: $11,266 · PhilanthropyClover Garden School Inc: $7,611 · Religion
Recreation & Sports$22,413,859Other$7,710,626Education$483,919Philanthropy$11,266Religion$7,611

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNCHSAA FOUNDATION INC: $22,413,859 over 2y, 100% of budgetCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF DAVIDSON INC: $32,422 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE NORMAN CHARTER SCHOOL: $29,361 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLincoln Charter School Inc: $27,980 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPine Lake Preparatory: $22,733 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRANKLIN ACADEMY INC: $22,207 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHENDERSON COLLEGIATE INC: $22,035 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROXBORO COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $21,920 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA CHARTER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $18,711 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNION ACADEMY: $16,798 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRIAD MATH AND SCIENCE ACADEMY COMPANY: $15,821 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUWHARRIE GREEN SCHOOL INC: $15,373 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN ISLAND CHARTER SCHOOL: $12,537 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONTEMPORARY SCIENCE CENTER INC: $11,766 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThomas Jefferson Community Education Foundation Inc: $11,266 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetQUEEN''S GRANT COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $10,683 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBradford Preparatory School: $10,668 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRAY STONE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC DBA GRAY STONE DAY SCHOOL: $10,569 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOYAGER ACADEMY INC: $10,335 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCornerstone Charter Academy A Challenge Foundation Academy Inc: $10,122 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVance Charter School Inc: $9,764 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSugar Creek Charter School Inc: $9,728 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIEDMONT COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $9,615 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORVIAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $9,518 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFALLS LAKE ACADEMY: $9,264 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHATHAM CHARTER SCHOOL: $9,226 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBear Grass Charter School Inc: $9,175 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEAST WAKE FIRST CHARTER SCHOOL: $9,085 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA LEADERSHIP CHARTER ACADEMY INC: $8,921 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRALEIGH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC: $8,859 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEUSE CHARTER SCHOOL OF JOHNSTON COUNTY: $8,858 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOXFORD PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $8,747 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODS CHARTER SCHOOL: $8,661 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $8,584 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNT PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $8,546 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORPORATION FOR EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS: $8,378 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilson Preparatory Academy: $7,795 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetClover Garden School Inc: $7,611 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP ENC PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $7,054 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENO RIVER ACADEMY HOLDINGS INC: $6,980 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRIVER MILL ACADEMY: $6,886 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds NCHSAA FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Nchsaa Foundation IncNc Greenpower Corpora…The Golden Leaf IncShare Our StrengthNorth Carolina Commun…Foundation for the Ca…GenYOUTH IncorporatedFor Inspiration and R…Western North Carolin…Manna Food Bank IncNRA Foundation IncDuke Energy Foundation
Nchsaa Foundation IncNC175.8× affinity83 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nchsaa Foundation Inc · Nc Greenpower Corporation · The Golden Leaf Inc · Share Our Strength · North Carolina Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · GenYOUTH Incorporated · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Western North Carolina Regional · Manna Food Bank Inc · NRA Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation

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 North Carolina High School Athletic Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from North Carolina High School Athletic Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    35report 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 163 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $15k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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