North Carolina · Nonprofit
CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS
CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $261,651 to it, the largest being THE CLAUDE S JR AND RAENELLE ABERNE TESTAMENTARY CHARITABLE TRUST ($146,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $66k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $262k
- Net assets
- $2k
What Classroom Connections does
Mission
Provide school supplies for teachers
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Classroom Connections provides classroom supplies including: pencils, paper, glue, pens, poster board, notebooks, workbooks, rulers, calculators, graph paper, copy paper etc.
Using adult volunteers and senior citizens from diverse backgrounds to share their knowledge and experiences to provide guidance for area youth.
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $17k to $4k (−79%).
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 CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% 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.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Donald Hicks
CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $18k → $31k.
From the IRS filings of CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS’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
CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 90% · 2020 100% · 2021 38% · 2022 34% · 2023 59% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS'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. 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
CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,089 unclassified nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS
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.
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 CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS: 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 CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS?
- CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $261,651 to it, the largest being THE CLAUDE S JR AND RAENELLE ABERNE TESTAMENTARY CHARITABLE TRUST ($146,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $261,651 in grants to CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS?
- THE CLAUDE S JR AND RAENELLE ABERNE TESTAMENTARY CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $146,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 6 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