North Carolina · Nonprofit
CHAMPIONS FOR EDUCATION INC
CHAMPIONS FOR EDUCATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,639,990 to it, the largest being PGA TOUR INC ($2,402,416). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $0
What Champions for Education Inc does
Mission
The organization was organized exclusively for raising funds so that it may provide grants to other charities which strive to improve the quality of education around the nation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization's primary fundraising activity is the hosting of a pga professional golf tournament in charlotte, nc, known as the wells fargo championship. The organization's primary fundraising activity is the hosting of a pga chamionship. The 2024 tournament was held may 9 - may 12, 2024, raising proceeds to primarily benefit atrium health foundation, dreamkey, and first tee.
$26,962,164 spentof which $2,183,549 as grants$21,638,894 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $26,962,164.
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.
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 $7.2M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Kendall Alley
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $216k → $317k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 CHAMPIONS FOR 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
CHAMPIONS FOR EDUCATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 CHAMPIONS FOR EDUCATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 85% · 2019 62% · 2020 43% · 2021 51% · 2022 68% · 2023 76% — 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 CHAMPIONS FOR EDUCATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
CHAMPIONS FOR EDUCATION INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like CHAMPIONS FOR EDUCATION 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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHAMPIONS FOR EDUCATION 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 CHAMPIONS FOR EDUCATION INC?
- CHAMPIONS FOR EDUCATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,639,990 to it, the largest being PGA TOUR INC ($2,402,416). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHAMPIONS FOR EDUCATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $3,639,990 in grants to CHAMPIONS FOR EDUCATION INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAMPIONS FOR EDUCATION INC?
- PGA TOUR INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,402,416 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAMPIONS FOR 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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