North Carolina · Nonprofit
CORPORATION FOR INQUIRY INC CAPE FEAR CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC
CORPORATION FOR INQUIRY INC CAPE FEAR CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,837 to it, the largest being New Hanover Community Endowment Inc ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.9M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $81k
- Net assets
- $-1029226
What Corporation for Inquiry Inc Cape Fear Center for Inquiry Inc does
Mission
The cape fear center for inquiry is committed to promoting students' abilities to think critically and create in personally meaningful ways. The organization maintains a high level of personal and collegial accountability through an integrated, inquirybased curriculum that is academically challenging and delivered within a safe and supportive environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Cape fear center for inquiry is a north carolina public charter school that educates students in grades k-8. During the fiscal year ended june 30,2025, approximately 396 students were served.
$4,150,622 spent$96,426 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,150,622.
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 2019 to 2020, from $8.0M to $8.8M (+10%).
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 94% · 2018 94% · 2019 94% · 2020 95% · 2021 98% · 2022 90% · 2023 95% · 2024 97% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CORPORATION FOR INQUIRY INC CAPE FEAR CENTER FOR INQUIRY 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. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $318 → $98.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 CORPORATION FOR INQUIRY INC CAPE FEAR CENTER FOR INQUIRY 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
CORPORATION FOR INQUIRY INC CAPE FEAR CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 55% · 2021 56% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of CORPORATION FOR INQUIRY INC CAPE FEAR CENTER FOR INQUIRY 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. $533 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CORPORATION FOR INQUIRY INC CAPE FEAR CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC is better cushioned 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 CORPORATION FOR INQUIRY INC CAPE FEAR CENTER FOR INQUIRY 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CORPORATION FOR INQUIRY INC CAPE FEAR CENTER FOR INQUIRY 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 CORPORATION FOR INQUIRY INC CAPE FEAR CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC?
- CORPORATION FOR INQUIRY INC CAPE FEAR CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,837 to it, the largest being New Hanover Community Endowment Inc ($80,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CORPORATION FOR INQUIRY INC CAPE FEAR CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $80,837 in grants to CORPORATION FOR INQUIRY INC CAPE FEAR CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORPORATION FOR INQUIRY INC CAPE FEAR CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC?
- New Hanover Community Endowment Inc is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORPORATION FOR INQUIRY INC CAPE FEAR CENTER FOR INQUIRY 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 3 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