North Carolina · Nonprofit
CHATHAM TRADES INC
CHATHAM TRADES INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $355,847 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CHATHAM COUNTY ($230,218). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $356k
- Net assets
- $769k
What Chatham Trades Inc does
Mission
Community rehabilitation program serving adults with physical, intellectual, and developmental disabilities, including evaluation, training, work activities, job development, and job placement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Production salesserved individuals with disabilities in the siler city area. Provided employment to adults with intellectual developmental disabilities through outsourcing production activities for local businesses, manufacturers, and military contractors.
$311,974 spent$207,099 earned by the program26% of program spendingInnovations waiverfocused on skill-building activities and creative outlets for the consumers. It also provided the opportunity to participate in daily vocational training, employment and progress towards identified goals and skill-building.
$337,532 spent$410,803 earned by the program29% of program spendingAdult development vocational program (advp)designed to serve adults with intellectual developmental disabilities who have barriers to employment.
$58,429 spent$41,534 earned by the program5% of program spendingSpark
$367,071 spent$419,147 earned by the program31% of program spendingAll other
$105,759 spent$152,922 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,180,765.
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 2017 to 2018, from $182k to $830k (+356%).
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 24% · 2018 28% · 2019 43% · 2020 19% · 2021 47% · 2022 23% · 2023 20% · 2024 20% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of CHATHAM TRADES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Shawn Poe
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $30k → $35k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 CHATHAM TRADES 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
CHATHAM TRADES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 CHATHAM TRADES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 58% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 42% · 2022 38% · 2023 77% — 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
50% of CHATHAM TRADES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
93% of CHATHAM TRADES INC'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. $55k 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
CHATHAM TRADES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHATHAM TRADES 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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHATHAM TRADES INC?
- CHATHAM TRADES INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $355,847 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CHATHAM COUNTY ($230,218). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHATHAM TRADES INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $355,847 in grants to CHATHAM TRADES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHATHAM TRADES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF CHATHAM COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $230,218 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHATHAM TRADES 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.
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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 12 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