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Communities in Schools of Northwest North Carolina

Communities in Schools of Northwest North Carolina (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,238 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF WILKES COUNTY INC ($84,773). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$815k
Revenue FY2019
6
Funders on record
$201k
Grants received
$-33227
Net assets
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($934k) Expenses 100 ($950k) Net assets 100 ($651)2019 Revenue 87 ($815k) Expenses 90 ($857k) Net assets -5104 ($-33227)
20182019
Revenue (87)Expenses (90)Net assets (-5104)

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.

2018
2019
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 2% · 2019 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
18
$42k
19
-0.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $39k → $136k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)52% 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 Northwest North Carolina’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 Northwest North Carolina leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

100% 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 Northwest North Carolina.

42%
largest funder
94%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 78% · 2020 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

52% of Communities in Schools of Northwest North Carolina's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $96k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

TN
NC

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

17
19
20
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Communities in Schools of Northwest North Carolina

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In North Carolina

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

60% of spending goes to programs.

Program 60%Management 28%Fundraising 12%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Communities in Schools of Northwest North Carolina: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Communities in Schools of Northwest North Carolina?
Communities in Schools of Northwest North Carolina (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,238 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF WILKES COUNTY INC ($84,773). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Communities in Schools of Northwest North Carolina have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $201,238 in grants to Communities in Schools of Northwest North Carolina, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Communities in Schools of Northwest North Carolina?
UNITED WAY OF WILKES COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $84,773 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Communities in Schools of Northwest North Carolina 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 FY2019 (financials across 2018–2019), and the filings of 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing