North Carolina · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAKE COUNTY
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAKE COUNTY (North Carolina) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,118,254 to it, the largest being TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($520,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $431k
What Communities in Schools of Wake County does
Mission
Surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. Cis wake is the local affiliate of the national cis network of 160 affiliates serving 2 million students across 29 states. Cis wake's vision is to help schools remove the barriers that put students at risk of wasting their potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Success coach program: cis wake's success coaches are embedded in 7 partner schools to deliver cis model of integrated student supports(wraparound services). Success coaches work with students experiencing challenges related to attendance, behavior, and academic performance, to support positive student outcomes. In fy 2024-2025, 12,000+ students received school wide supports and 439 students benefited from direct case management. Among case-managed students, 100% were promoted and 86% improved social skills, based on school data and program progress measures.
$196,399 spent$300,000 earned by the program17% of program spendingChamps after-school & summer enrichment: cis wake offers after-school and summer enrichment in 4 public housing communitiies and 3 partner schools serving 200 students annually. Champs programming engages students in: (a)stem-focused, project-based learning; (b)small-group instruction and tutoring facilitated by certified educators; and (c)interactive instruction leveraging online academic tools. This initiative also builds the students' "community of support" by engaging families and 100+ volunteers (serving 1,650 hours).
$928,814 spent$14,577 earned by the program83% of program spendingCis wake pathways: cis wake pathways helps participants (ages 14- adult) prepare for post-secondary pathways including exploration, enrollment, enlistment, and entrepreneurship. Participants build college/career readiness via workshops, college tours, and leveraging virtual reality technology for career exploration. Cis wake pathways also strengthens youth and community well-being by offering free youth mental health first aid and teen mental health first aid training to adults and high school students respectively.
$87,607 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,125,213.
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 2022 to 2023, from $377k to $532k (+41%).
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 65% · 2018 67% · 2019 63% · 2020 47% · 2021 50% · 2022 48% · 2023 45% · 2024 65% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAKE COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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.
Board chair
Larry Somerville
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $103k → $356k.
13 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 WAKE COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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 WAKE COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
78% 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 WAKE COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 41% · 2019 55% · 2020 29% · 2021 21% · 2022 13% · 2023 36% — 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
33% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAKE COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
55% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAKE COUNTY'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 $945k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 WAKE COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAKE 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 WAKE COUNTY: 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 WAKE COUNTY?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAKE COUNTY (North Carolina) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,118,254 to it, the largest being TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($520,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% 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 WAKE COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $2,118,254 in grants to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAKE COUNTY, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAKE COUNTY?
- TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $520,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF WAKE 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 33 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