North Carolina · Nonprofit
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,322,878 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ($657,599). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $884k
What Communities in Schools Robeson County Inc does
Mission
Support at risk school students.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operation of a charter school under contractual oversite of nc department of public instruction. The school serves middle school at-risk students of robeson county north carolina in cooperation with the public schools of robeson county. Approximately 119 students were served during the year.
$1,302,020 spent58% of program spendingCommunities in schools - basic programs are designed to recruit and coordinate volunteers, and provide tutoring and mentoring services to at-risk students. Programs are designed to help students stay in school. Over 373 volunteers provided over 9,951 hours of service.
$955,198 spent42% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,257,218.
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 2024 to 2025, from $414k to $940k (+127%).
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 83% · 2018 79% · 2019 76% · 2020 73% · 2021 72% · 2022 62% · 2023 54% · 2024 60% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY 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. 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
Latasha Murray
Chairman / d
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $26k → $336k.
6 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 ROBESON COUNTY INC’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 ROBESON COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 ROBESON COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 82% · 2019 50% · 2020 48% · 2021 53% · 2022 47% · 2023 78% — growing more concentrated.
“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
18% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
99% of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY 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. $169k 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.
Against its field
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 ROBESON COUNTY 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,322,878 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ($657,599). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,322,878 in grants to COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY INC?
- COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NORTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $657,599 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ROBESON COUNTY 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.
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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 14 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