North Carolina · Nonprofit
DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE
DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE (North Carolina) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,565,398 to it, the largest being THE OAK FOUNDATION USA ($1,500,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $900k
What Durham Children's Initiative does
Mission
Durham Children's Initiative is committed to changing outcomes and expectations for children and families of need in durham. Modeled after the harlem children's zone, dci aims to reach this goal by creating a pipeline of high-quality services that starts with children at birth and continues through elementary, middle, and high school. Dci's vision is for all children affiliated with dci to graduate from high school, ready for college or a career.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
In may of 2024, preschool academy closed for operation.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Learn to earn: lte is designed to help elementary and middle school students develop critical academic and social skills necessary for school success. Students are taught the importance of goal setting. Additionally, dci offers social emotional wellness workshops for the students. #served: 150
$84,526 spent$25,000 earned by the program6% of program spendingBuilding self: dci provides social, emotional, and cognitive development support for families, with a strong focus on parental growth and guidance. Families receive resources through parent coaching, childcare subsidies, and kindergarten readiness support. Additionally, dci offers parent engagement workshops that strengthen skills, build confidence, and empower caregivers to support their children's development. #served: 300
$143,326 spent$25,000 earned by the program10% of program spendingPediatrics supporting parents initiative - durham proof point community - is a national initiative that seeks to support families with children aged birth to 3 by utilizing the well child visit to strengthen early relational health and social emotional development in partnership with caregivers, clinicians, and the community. #served: 600
$617,473 spentof which $40,801 as grants$433,020 earned by the program44% of program spendingSeason of wishes activities provided wrapped toys for children who participate in the dci programs.basic needs support: continuing the basic needs efforts that began during the pandemic, dci focused on distributing items such as diapers. Through partnerships, donations, and third-party agencies, dci initiated distribution of these items to families on a regular, routine basis. College and career: the program manager and youth program team identified youth ages 14+ for the summer workforce development program. This program served 20. They received support on job and workforce skills training over a one-week period.partnership development related to building relationships with organizations providing a program or service as part of the dci pipeline, for example medical providers, durham county department of social services, united way collaborative, health department, book harvest, etc.
$546,855 spentof which $1,100 as grants$380,258 earned by the program39% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,392,180.
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 $2.0M to $2.7M (+36%).
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: 2018 1% · 2021 15% · 2022 4% · 2023 2% · 2024 1% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Michael Seaman
Interim CEO
Board chair
Evan Sitton
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $295k → $903k.
8 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.0M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Silicon Valley Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE raised.
From the IRS filings of DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 44% · 2019 40% · 2020 36% · 2021 37% · 2022 35% · 2023 55% — 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
46% of DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $330k 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
DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE: 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 DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE?
- DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE (North Carolina) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,565,398 to it, the largest being THE OAK FOUNDATION USA ($1,500,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $6,565,398 in grants to DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE?
- THE OAK FOUNDATION USA is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE 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.
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 44 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