North Carolina · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION
CENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,930,802 to it, the largest being John M Belk Endowment ($740,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $941k
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Center for Racial Equity in Education does
Mission
CREED will reach beyond programming, and other facilitated experiences to promote deep and authentic engagement with some of the nation's most pressing issues, such as equity, gender, race, class, civic engagement, mental health, community engagement, and social justice through education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
At the Center for Racial Equity in Education (CREED) we conduct expert race-conscious research, employ a broad public engagement strategy and provide technical assistance to schools in order to transform the educational system in North Carolina to better serve students of color
$959,149 spent$941,035 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $959,149.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $342k to $1.5M (+328%).
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.
100% of CENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
James E Ford
Executive Director
Board chair
Mark McDaniel
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $211k → $259k.
4 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 CENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION’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
CENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 33% · 2021 81% · 2022 37% · 2023 58% — growing more concentrated.
“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
14% of CENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% 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
61% of CENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION'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. $64k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $74k on record.
- Department of the Interior$74k
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 CENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION
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
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION: 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 CENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION?
- CENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,930,802 to it, the largest being John M Belk Endowment ($740,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $2,930,802 in grants to CENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION?
- John M Belk Endowment is the largest funder on record, with $740,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN EDUCATION 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 23 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