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DURHAM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC DBA MAUREEN JOY CHARTER SCHOOL

DURHAM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC DBA MAUREEN JOY CHARTER SCHOOL (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,981 to it, the largest being JUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC ($5,262). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$11M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$7k
Net assets
$2.9M
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Durham Community Charter School Inc Dba Maureen Joy Charter School does

Mission

Maureen joy charter school exists to develop the whole child through high-quality instruction, school-community partnerships, and the promotion of a positive self-identity.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Operated as a public school serving approximately 599 students for the fiscal year ending june 30, 2025.

    $7,929,547 spent$86,603 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,929,547.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($7.4M) Expenses 100 ($7.5M) Net assets 100 ($2.5M)2021 Revenue 123 ($9.1M) Expenses 107 ($8.0M) Net assets 144 ($3.6M)2022 Revenue 129 ($9.5M) Expenses 129 ($9.6M) Net assets 141 ($3.6M)2023 Revenue 130 ($9.6M) Expenses 135 ($10M) Net assets 123 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 144 ($11M) Expenses 154 ($11M) Net assets 89 ($2.2M)2025 Revenue 149 ($11M) Expenses 139 ($10M) Net assets 117 ($2.9M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (149)Expenses (139)Net assets (117)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.5M to $9.6M (+176%).

$3.5M
$9.6M
$9.4M
$9.2M
$8.0M
$9.1M
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 17% · 2022 22% · 2023 21% · 2024 18% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of DURHAM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC DBA MAUREEN JOY CHARTER SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$65k
’20
$1.1M
’21
−$59k
’22
−$455k
’23
−$866k
’24
$686k
’25
2.4
months of
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

Donnell De'Shawn Cannon

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed109118714
Joined·+0+2+1+1+7
No longer listed·10420
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $1k → $302.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 DURHAM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC DBA MAUREEN JOY CHARTER SCHOOL’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

DURHAM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC DBA MAUREEN JOY CHARTER SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

82% 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 DURHAM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC DBA MAUREEN JOY CHARTER SCHOOL.

75%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 93% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 83% — 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

DURHAM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC DBA MAUREEN JOY CHARTER SCHOOL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states in all.

WI
DE
FL

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

’20
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $469 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DURHAM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC DBA MAUREEN JOY CHARTER SCHOOL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like DURHAM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC DBA MAUREEN JOY CHARTER SCHOOL

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In North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds DURHAM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC DBA MAUREEN JOY CHARTER SCHOOL?
DURHAM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC DBA MAUREEN JOY CHARTER SCHOOL (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,981 to it, the largest being JUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC ($5,262). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DURHAM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC DBA MAUREEN JOY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $6,981 in grants to DURHAM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC DBA MAUREEN JOY CHARTER SCHOOL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DURHAM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC DBA MAUREEN JOY CHARTER SCHOOL?
JUSTIN J WATT FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,262 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DURHAM COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL INC DBA MAUREEN JOY CHARTER SCHOOL 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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