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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.

$59k
Granted FY2018
11
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2018.

Education$296k
02FY2018 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $50,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $58,570 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,570 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.
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$732k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Leaning Center$6,000
Fernleaf Community Charter School$5,500
Bridges Academy$5,000
Moore Montessori$5,000
The Movement Charter School$5,000
Davidson Charter School$5,000
Girls Leadership Academy Wilmington$5,000
East Voyager$5,000
Kipp Durham College Preparatory$3,500
Shining Rock Classical Academy$2,500
Veritas Community School$2,500
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Veritas Community School: $8k → 10%Kipp Durham College Preparatory: $20k → 11%Shining Rock Classical Academy: $20k → 12%Girls Leadership Academy of Wilmington: $43k → 12%Fernleaf Community Charter School: $38k → 12%Davidson Charter School: $5k → 13%The Learning Center: $10k → 15%Bridges Academy: $28k → 17%KIPP Halifax College Preparatory Pub Sch: $28k → 20%Henderson Collegiate: $40k → 20%Veritas Community School: $3k → 10%Kipp Durham College Preparatory: $4k → 11%Shining Rock Classical Academy: $3k → 12%Girls Leadership Academy Wilmington: $5k → 12%Fernleaf Community Charter School: $6k → 12%The Leaning Center: $6k → 15%Bridges Academy: $5k → 17%KIPP Halifax College Preparatory: $13k → 20%East Voyager: $5k → 10%The Movement Charter School: $5k → 10%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$236k · 7 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$236k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+43%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • KE
    KIPP ENC PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    3× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue +77%
  • FL
    FERN LEAF COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +522%
  • SR
    SHINING ROCK CLASSICAL ACADEMY
    3× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +150%

Funded once

  • HC
    HENDERSON COLLEGIATE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +43%
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
Vance Charter School Inc

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
3
Community Public 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
Raleigh Oak Charter School Inc

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
6
Summit Charter School

Operation of a North Carolina public charter school.

Education
7
Pine Lake Preparatory

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
8
Voyager Academy Inc

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
9
River Mill Academy

Operation of a north carolina public charter school

Education
10
Clover Garden School Inc

Operation of a public charter school

Religion
11
Wilson Preparatory Academy

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
12
United Community School Inc

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Davidson Charter Academy; the most unlike its peers is Bridges Educational 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

12 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KIPP ENC PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $63,500 · EducationKIPP ENC PUBLIC SCHOOLSBEACON EDUCATION INC: $47,500 · EducationBEACON EDUCATION INCFERN LEAF COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL: $43,000 · EducationFERN LEAF COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOLHENDERSON COLLEGIATE INC: $40,000 · EducationHENDERSON COLLEGIATE INCBridges Educational Foundation Inc: $32,500 · EducationBridges Educational Foundation IncSHINING ROCK CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $22,500 · EducationSHINING ROCK CLASSICAL ACADEMYVERITAS Community School Inc: $10,500 · Education+4 more: $20,000 · Education+4 moreTHE LEARNING CENTER OGDEN SCHOOL INC: $16,000 · Other
Education$279,500Other$16,000

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 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
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…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Parents for Educational Freedom in NC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Parents for Educational Freedom in NC. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    8report 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.
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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.

    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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