North Carolina · Nonprofit
EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES
EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES (North Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $224,509 to it, the largest being THE KENAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($43,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $225k
- Net assets
- $300k
What Extraordinary Ventures does
Mission
To provide vocational training and social opportunities for students and adults 15 years of age and older with developmental disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For the year ended December 31, 2025, Extraordinary Ventures, Inc. operated the following programs to create inclusive employment opportunities:(I)Social Enterprises Program - Six self-sustaining small businesses that provide employment opportunities for adults with IDD.(1)Extraordinary LaundryA pick-up and delivery laundry service serving local residential communities, universities, and businesses. The laundry business provides structured, supportive jobs in a professional work environment, allowing employees with IDD to develop vocational skills in delivery services and sorting, washing, and folding. (2)Extraordinary Office SolutionsThis venture provides mail processing services for large clients. Team members perform essential functions ranging from stamping letters to delivering pallets of mail to the post office. (3)Extraordinary GiftsAn e-commerce, wholesale, and retail gift business that produces handmade candles and soaps. Employees participate in all phases of production and fulfillment, including selling directly to the public at local markets. (4)The Blue Hill Event CenterA professional event space and that offers flexible event rentals ranging from corporate trainings…
$1,529,502 spent$1,510,285 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,529,502.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $511k to $399k (−22%).
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: 2021 6% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $550 → $34k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES’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
EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
46% 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 EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 68% · 2019 81% · 2020 21% · 2021 63% · 2022 43% · 2023 33% — 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
42% of EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
61% of EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES'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. $80k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
36%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES: 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 EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES?
- EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES (North Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $224,509 to it, the largest being THE KENAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($43,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $224,509 in grants to EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES?
- THE KENAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $43,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EXTRAORDINARY VENTURES 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 16 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