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Parents for Educational Freedom in NC

Parents for Educational Freedom in NC advocates for quality educational options through parental school choice. Our mission is to ENGAGE at the grassroots level, EDUCATE NC about the options in our state, and EMPOWER families to have a voice in their childrens education.

$59k
Granted FY2018
11
Itemized grants FY2018
11
Organizations funded FY2018
36%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Itemized, FY2018
$50k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2018
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 11
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
1
Total assets, FY2018
$732k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 36% of the organizations Parents for Educational Freedom in NC funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201811$50k36%
FY20178$246kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$296k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Parents for Educational Freedom in NC by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kipp Enc Public Schools$63,50030%
Beacon Education Inc$47,50031%
Fern Leaf Community Charter School$43,00030%
Henderson Collegiate Inc$40,0001n/a
Bridges Educational Foundation Inc$32,50031%
Shining Rock Classical Academy$22,50031%
The Learning Center Ogden School Inc$16,0003n/a
VERITAS Community School Inc$10,50031%
Davidson Charter Academy$5,00023%
Movement Charter School$5,00020%
Moore Montessori Community School Inc$5,0002n/a
East Voyager Academy of Charlotte$5,0002n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Parents for Educational Freedom in NC supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKipp Enc Public Schools: $63,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBeacon Education Inc: $47,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFern Leaf Community Charter School: $43,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBridges Educational Foundation Inc: $32,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetShining Rock Classical Academy: $22,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetVERITAS Community School Inc: $10,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDavidson Charter Academy: $5,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMovement Charter School: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 CarolinasNC12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Parents for Educational Freedom in NC?

Find your warmest path to Parents for Educational Freedom in NC through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Parents for Educational Freedom in NC

How much does Parents for Educational Freedom in NC give?
Parents for Educational Freedom in NC reported 11 itemized grants totaling $50,000, out of $58,570 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Parents for Educational Freedom in NC fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Parents for Educational Freedom in NC's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Kipp Enc Public Schools ($64k), Beacon Education Inc ($48k), Fern Leaf Community Charter School ($43k).
Does Parents for Educational Freedom in NC fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Parents for Educational Freedom in NC?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Parents for Educational Freedom in NC based?
Parents for Educational Freedom in NC is based in NC.

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 12 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 2018, released 2018. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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