North Carolina · Nonprofit
FILL MY CUP
FILL MY CUP (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,700 to it, the largest being Older Adults Technology Services ($26,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $85k
- Net assets
- $7k
What Fill My Cup does
Mission
Fill My Cup! is an Adult Literacy and Adult Basic Education Services non-profit Organization. Our Fill My Cup! Mission is Empowering underserved adults in the Greater Charlotte Community to reach their full potential through adult literacy and adult basic education services, to include digital skills to seniors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We teach adults to learn to read, improve their reading and obtain functional literacy skills In-person and virtually. We recruit and train volunteer tutors to support our one-to-one and small group tutoring sessions. In addition we have been able to add a extremely valuable core service to support our community and our adult learners, and seniors. We became a partner with AARP and were able to train seniors in becoming digitally literate to support upward economic mobility. Serving 80 participants
$18,593 spentof which $17,608 as grants100% of program spendingProgram Service Fees = Digital Training to Seniors
$0 spentof which $5,000 as grants0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $18,593.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $15k to $3k (−82%).
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.
78% of FILL MY CUP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sheila Laury
Executive Director
Board chair
Ulysees Gilbert II
Board of Directors, Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $18k → $15k.
From the IRS filings of FILL MY CUP’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
FILL MY CUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 FILL MY CUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
FILL MY CUP draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FILL MY CUP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FILL MY CUP
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FILL MY CUP: 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 FILL MY CUP?
- FILL MY CUP (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,700 to it, the largest being Older Adults Technology Services ($26,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FILL MY CUP have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $84,700 in grants to FILL MY CUP, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FILL MY CUP?
- Older Adults Technology Services is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FILL MY CUP 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 5 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