North Carolina · Nonprofit
CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION
CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,655,996 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($425,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public School Foundation does
Mission
Our mission:as a champion for public education, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public School Foundation provides additional funding to our schools for innovative programs that advance student achievement and teacher development.what we believe:- every child deserves the best possible education.- excellent educators ignite learning.- high quality public education is essential to academic success and a vibrant community.what we do:- create awareness of the value and importance of quality public education.- award grants for promising innovative education practices.- provide students with additional academic support and growth opportunities critical to academic success.- offer educators and staff financial assistance for professional development.- partner with the community and raise financial support from individuals, foundations, and businesses.- manage funds responsibly and with the highest ethical standards.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Grants awarded: $333,943 awarded and $339,797 paid in this year 46 achievers fund grants 55 classroom student enrichment grants 19 professional development impact grants 2 international travel grantsteacher support: $119,395 $46,327 teacher supplies $4,619 conference presenter grants to 8 teachers $18,173 national board fee reimbursements to 47 teachers/nurses $9,200 to support 49 novice teachers $19,750 endowed awards to 16 teachers $21,326 staff awards and appreciationstudent support: college scholarships for high school seniors- $63,325 blue ribbon mentor advocate financial support for over 70+ students enrichment scholarships including summer camp for 225 students emergency housing needs provided to families in crisis books over break program served over 1700 students read2me summer reading program served over 800 students facilitated fundraising for true book fairsother $1.4m of pass-through for chccs programs new endowments: margaret kepner distinguished service award and lynn lehmann opportunity scholarship celebrated our 20th breakfast & roses fundraiser hosted a successful 40th anniversary celebration collected over 17,000 books to support our summer literacy…
$662,369 spentof which $521,482 as grants$9,578 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $662,369.
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 2019 to 2020, from $2.7M to $4.3M (+59%).
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: 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% 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.
Chief executive
Madeline Blobe
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $136k → $213k.
14 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. 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
CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
78% 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 CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 25% · 2019 33% · 2020 37% · 2021 22% · 2022 32% · 2023 25% — 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
35% of CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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 CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION'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 $1.0M that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: 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 CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION?
- CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,655,996 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($425,500). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $2,655,996 in grants to CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $425,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION 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 36 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