North Carolina · Nonprofit
Bear Grass Charter School Inc
Bear Grass Charter School Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,495 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ($9,175). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $3.5M
What Bear Grass Charter School Inc does
Mission
The mission of Bear Grass Charter School is to enhance the quality of life of all students by ensuring they possess the competencies to achieve success in a technological world. Bear Grass Charter School will prepare students to enter and become successful in a diverse and technological society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Bear Grass Charter School operated during fiscal year 6/30/25 as a 6-12 school serving approximately 450 students.
$5,187,548 spent$5,796,415 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,187,548.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $3.0M to $3.8M (+27%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 94% · 2018 94% · 2019 92% · 2020 95% · 2021 98% · 2022 96% · 2023 96% · 2024 97% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Bear Grass Charter School Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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
Delmas B Cumbee Jr
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $9k.
From the IRS filings of Bear Grass Charter School 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
Bear Grass Charter School Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 Bear Grass Charter School Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
87% of Bear Grass Charter School Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
Bear Grass Charter School Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Bear Grass Charter School Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $449k on record.
- Department of Education$449k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Bear Grass Charter School Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Bear Grass Charter School Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Bear Grass Charter School Inc?
- Bear Grass Charter School Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,495 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ($9,175). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bear Grass Charter School Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,495 in grants to Bear Grass Charter School Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Bear Grass Charter School Inc?
- NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $9,175 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bear Grass Charter School 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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