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COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CALDWELL COUNTY

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CALDWELL COUNTY (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $553,895 to it, the largest being CALDWELL COUNTY UNITED FUND INC ($175,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$205k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$554k
Net assets
$586k
7/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What Communities in Schools of Caldwell County does

Mission

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay and school and achieve in life.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Cis caldwell county worked in partnership with the county's public schools to bring caring adults into the schools to address children's unmet needs. Cis provided the between educators and the community. Programs focused on mentoring, social services, academic improvement, family empowerment, attendance incentives, and teen pregnancy and substance abuse prevention. Cis served over 400 students in the area.

    $136,724 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $136,724.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($393k) Expenses 100 ($212k) Net assets 100 ($575k)2018 Revenue 50 ($198k) Expenses 101 ($214k) Net assets 97 ($558k)2019 Revenue 57 ($225k) Expenses 111 ($236k) Net assets 95 ($547k)2020 Revenue 40 ($157k) Expenses 110 ($234k) Net assets 82 ($470k)2021 Revenue 50 ($196k) Expenses 75 ($160k) Net assets 88 ($506k)2022 Revenue 67 ($265k) Expenses 111 ($236k) Net assets 93 ($535k)2023 Revenue 49 ($191k) Expenses 84 ($179k) Net assets 95 ($547k)2024 Revenue 57 ($225k) Expenses 90 ($191k) Net assets 101 ($582k)2025 Revenue 52 ($205k) Expenses 95 ($201k) Net assets 102 ($586k)
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Revenue (52)Expenses (95)Net assets (102)Peer revenue range

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 $548k to $495k (−10%).

$605k
$561k
$548k
$495k
$538k
$553k
$556k
$582k
$586k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 39% · 2018 2% · 2019 15% · 2020 21% · 2021 73% · 2022 85% · 2023 79% · 2024 79% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CALDWELL COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$181k
’17
−$17k
’18
−$12k
’19
−$76k
’20
$36k
’21
$29k
’22
$12k
’23
$35k
’24
$4k
’25
16
months of
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.

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Listed283029282928283231
Joined·+11+1+2+5+6+4+7+2
No longer listed·92347433
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $69k.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CALDWELL COUNTY’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

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CALDWELL COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

70% 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CALDWELL COUNTY.

32%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 64% · 2019 32% · 2020 51% · 2021 45% · 2022 51% · 2023 37% — 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

67% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CALDWELL COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

100% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CALDWELL COUNTY's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $206k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CALDWELL COUNTY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve15.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CALDWELL COUNTY

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

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 20%Fundraising 12%

Governance

32
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CALDWELL COUNTY?
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CALDWELL COUNTY (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $553,895 to it, the largest being CALDWELL COUNTY UNITED FUND INC ($175,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CALDWELL COUNTY have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $553,895 in grants to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CALDWELL COUNTY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CALDWELL COUNTY?
CALDWELL COUNTY UNITED FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CALDWELL COUNTY 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 9 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