North Carolina · Nonprofit
CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL (North Carolina) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,514,604 to it, the largest being DOWD FOUNDATION INC ($2,550,000). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $67M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $226M
What Charlotte Country Day School does
Mission
Through excellence in education, Charlotte Country Day School develops the potential of each student by fostering intellectual curiosity, principled character, ethical leadership and a responsibility to serve. The key values and commitments are educational excellence, character, community, and service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Instructional: funds were used to provide comprehensive educational programs to approximately 1,740 students in grades junior kindergarten through grade 12.
$49,181,158 spentof which $4,345,620 as grants$51,066,300 earned by the program85% of program spendingSpecial program fees: funds were used to provide special programs, including afterschool care, afterschool enrichment classes, tutoring, and summer day camps (sports, arts, enrichment) to children in grades junior kindergarten through grade 12.
$3,716,725 spent$3,388,067 earned by the program6% of program spendingAuxiliary services: funds were used to provide food, campus store, and transportation to students in grades junior kindergarten through grade 12. These expenses also included costs associated with operating and maintaining the donated weddington farm property.
$4,844,773 spent$2,501,259 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $57,742,656.
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 $180M to $213M (+18%).
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: 2023 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% 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
William H Zimmern
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $486k → $1.8M.
20 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $35M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation for the Carolinas). These are real filings, and they are not money CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL raised.
From the IRS filings of CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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
CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
47% 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 CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 42% · 2019 22% · 2020 28% · 2021 20% · 2022 28% · 2023 30% — 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
56% of CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
79% of CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL'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. $6.3M 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
CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY 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 CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL?
- CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL (North Carolina) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,514,604 to it, the largest being DOWD FOUNDATION INC ($2,550,000). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $13,514,604 in grants to CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL?
- DOWD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY 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 87 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing