North Carolina · Nonprofit
Fiscal Challenge Inc
Fiscal Challenge Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $347,931 to it, the largest being PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION ($327,931). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $200k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $348k
- Net assets
- $110k
What Fiscal Challenge Inc does
Mission
Fiscal Challenge Inc. provides experiential educational programming focused on fiscal policy economics budgeting and public policy analysis. Through a nationwide collegiate competition students develop analytical research presentation and policy-making skills by creating long-term fiscal solutions and presenting recommendations to professionals and subject matter experts. The organization coordinates educational programming competition events networking opportunities and policy-focused experiential learning activities designed to prepare students for careers and graduate study in economics public policy government and related fields. Programming includes student engagement opportunities educational resources public policy analysis exercises live presentation events mentorship and career exploration programming.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Fiscal Challenge Inc. provided experiential educational programming designed to enhance students understanding of fiscal policy economics and public policy analysis. Through a nationwide collegiate competition students researched and developed long-term fiscal policy solutions prepared analytical presentations and presented recommendations to professionals and subject matter experts. The organization coordinated educational resources student engagement activities networking opportunities and live competition events that helped participants strengthen research analytical communication and leadership skills while gaining exposure to careers in economics government and public policy.
$12,034 spentof which $12,034 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,034.
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 2024 to 2025, from $68k to $110k (+62%).
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.
100% of Fiscal Challenge Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $20k → $109k.
From the IRS filings of Fiscal Challenge 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
Fiscal Challenge Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2022 100% · 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
Fiscal Challenge Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 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
Fiscal Challenge Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Fiscal Challenge 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
8% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Fiscal Challenge Inc: 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 Fiscal Challenge Inc?
- Fiscal Challenge Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $347,931 to it, the largest being PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION ($327,931). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Fiscal Challenge Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $347,931 in grants to Fiscal Challenge Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Fiscal Challenge Inc?
- PETER G PETERSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $327,931 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Fiscal Challenge 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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