North Carolina · Nonprofit
CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,283 to it, the largest being WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ($25,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $-5581191
What Carolina International School does
Mission
Carolina International School ("cis") strives to develop caring and compassionate students and citizens who embody those character traits most respected in every culture. Hence character development at cis is immersed in every interaction and learning experience as a continual school-wide process. The program includes a service-learning component and actively involves parents and community leaders. The values that form the core of daily relationships and interactions at cis are respect, responsibility, solutions and services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
North carolina releases performance grades for all public schools across the state. The measures, called school performance grades, are required by the legislature and give every school a letter grade from a to f and are based primarily on student achievement with academic growth scores included. Carolina International School received a grade of c for the 2024-2025 school year. Their growth score was 91% which awarded the school with the measurement description of "exceeding growth." our enrollment remains solid. We continue to fiscally operate in the black, last year adding over $423,000 to our operating funds and anticipating that this year will continue this trend. Indeed, we have operated in the black every year of our existence. As we move towards conclusion the 2nd semester of the 21st year of existence of cis, our school continues to be strong in many key respects. We continue to see students living out our core values in exemplary ways, and being recognized for such in varied ways.
$7,814,835 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,814,835.
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 2018 to 2019, from $16M to $19M (+17%).
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 95% · 2019 95% · 2020 96% · 2021 99% · 2022 95% · 2023 94% · 2024 97% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL’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. 2 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
Dr Camela Ford
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $375 → $370.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL’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
CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 93% · 2022 95% · 2023 91% — diversifying over time.
“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
25% of CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
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
CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL 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
Organizations like CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: 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 CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL?
- CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,283 to it, the largest being WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ($25,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $54,283 in grants to CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL?
- WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL 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 8 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