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Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc

Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,252,258 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($2,354,210). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$2.3M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$3.3M
Net assets
$1.6M
7/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 85%
01What it does

What Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc does

Programs

  1. Partnered with Rowan County NC school system to distribute seedlings via NC Pre-K programs

    $0 spent
  2. Partnered with Yadkin County NC school system to distribute seedlings via NC Pre-K programs

  3. Partnered with Union County NC school system to distribute seedlings via NC Pre-K programs

  4. Partnered with other NC, SC and NY school systems to distribute seedlings via NC Pre-K programs

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($189k) Expenses 100 ($47k) Net assets 100 ($148k)2020 Revenue 200 ($378k) Expenses 422 ($198k) Net assets 320 ($472k)2021 Revenue 317 ($599k) Expenses 579 ($271k) Net assets 542 ($800k)2022 Revenue 850 ($1.6M) Expenses 846 ($397k) Net assets 1364 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 995 ($1.9M) Expenses 3922 ($1.8M) Net assets 624 ($921k)2024 Revenue 1225 ($2.3M) Expenses 3531 ($1.7M) Net assets 1092 ($1.6M)
201720202021202220232024
Revenue (1225)Expenses (3531)Net assets (1092)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $800k to $2.0M (+152%).

$148k
$492k
$800k
$2.0M
$1.6M
$1.6M
201720202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Greg Alcorn

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

201720202021202220232024
Listed6511101111
Joined··+7+0+3+0
No longer listed··1120
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $136k → $126k.

4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

77% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc.

72%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 100% · 2019 62% · 2020 75% · 2021 91% · 2022 93% · 2023 95% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

60% of Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

77% of Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $744k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

NY
PA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve8.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)43% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc?
Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,252,258 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($2,354,210). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $3,252,258 in grants to Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc?
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $2,354,210 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Apseed Early Childhood Education Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing