North Carolina · Nonprofit
EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC
EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $731,814 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($207,388). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $732k
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Eagle's Nest Foundation Inc does
Mission
Experiential education for young people, promoting the natural world and the betterment of human character.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Eagle's nest foundation (enf) is an educational institution, utilizing both traditional and non-traditional learning settings, but with an emphasis on experiential learning. Enf's intention is to teach its camper-students many different disciplines, but in doing so, to elevate the individual within community life to an active understanding of what it means to belong; to nature, to ecosystems, to spirit, to hard work, to society and history, to friends, and to the process of transition itself. Enf currently operates three programs. Eagle's nest camp is an aca-accredited residential coed summer camp where educational activities focus on the arts, wilderness and community building. The outdoor academy is a cognia-accredited, academic semester school for 10th and select 11th grade students. Hante adventures is an extension of eagle's nest camp offering educational wilderness and cultural-based expeditions for teens ages 13-18 within both the united states and abroad.
$2,646,103 spent$2,338,610 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,646,103.
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 $6.9M to $8.2M (+18%).
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: 2020 19% · 2021 17% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% 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.
Chief executive
Elizabeth Venable
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $25k → $101k.
8 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION 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
EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
49% 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 EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 33% · 2019 27% · 2020 21% · 2021 19% · 2022 20% · 2023 35% — 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
69% of EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% 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
EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $361k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC?
- EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $731,814 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($207,388). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $731,814 in grants to EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $207,388 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EAGLE'S NEST FOUNDATION 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 26 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing