North Carolina · Nonprofit
Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc
Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,851,751 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,629,337). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $9.3M
What Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc does
Mission
The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
School-based Programming - Communities In Schools Charlotte assigns full-time staff to specific Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) elementary, middle, PreK-8, and high school - to work collaboratively with the entire school team on a daily basis to impact student success. Our Communities In Schools Site Coordinators utilize a Developmental Relationships framework and the Whole Child Approach to holistically evaluate both the needs and innate strengths of the child to determine what a student may require to stay and succeed in school and beyond, and then deliver those services and/or resources. Communities In Schools Site Coordinator presence in the schools allows them to form lasting, meaningful relationships with the students and families they support and with the CMS staff in the schools with whom Communities In Schools partners.Continued on Schedule O.
$5,579,696 spent81% of program spendingTalent Search Program - Talent Search is a TRiO Program administered by Communities In Schools and funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The program is delivered through a case-management model by Communities In Schools Talent Search Counselors at four CMS high schools, serving approximately 1,000 students annually. The focus of the program is to assist low income, would-be first generation college students in the successful completion of high school as well as enrollment in post-secondary education through a variety of career exploration, college preparation, and social/cultural development activities. Talent Search Counselors also assist students with the shift from high school to college, through their first semester in college.
$705,170 spent10% of program spendingSafe Journey - The Communities In Schools Safe Journey Parents as Teachers program, funded primarily by Smart Start of Mecklenburg County, assists pregnant and parenting teens who are committed to completing high school while simultaneously enhancing interactions with their child, their understanding of child development, and overall family well-being. Safe Journey serves 100+ teenage parents annually at thirteen CMS high school sites. Students enrolled in Safe Journey participate in bi-monthly home visits with their case managers, group connection sessions, and targeted health and developmental screenings. Safe Journey participants also benefit from access to quality childcare, referrals for community resources, and scholarship opportunities for eligible program graduates.
$617,749 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,902,615.
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 2021 to 2022, from $9.4M to $14M (+49%).
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 50% · 2018 41% · 2019 28% · 2020 44% · 2021 54% · 2022 35% · 2023 32% · 2024 47% · 2025 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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.
Chief executive
Men Tchaas Ari
CEO
Board chair
Veronica M Calderon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $635k → $1.8M.
13 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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: $8.3M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Foundation for the Carolinas). These are real filings, and they are not money Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 46% · 2019 37% · 2020 22% · 2021 22% · 2022 70% · 2023 31% — 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
54% of Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
95% of Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg 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. $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
Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 23 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg 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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc: 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 Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc?
- Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,851,751 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,629,337). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $18,851,751 in grants to Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,629,337 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg 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.
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 48 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