North Carolina · Nonprofit
FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC
FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,713,385 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ($1,550,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Frankie Lemmon Foundation Inc does
Mission
The frankie lemmon foundation was established for the purpose of supporting the frankie lemmon school and developmental center and lemmon tree academy. Only a portion of the school's total operating costs are covered by state funding through the wake county public school system. The frankie lemmon foundation, through its fundraising efforts, provides most of the funds needed to support the schools. The foundation is the organizer of the triangle wine & food experience, one of the area's most successful fundraising events. The success of this event has been the catalyst for laying the groundwork to increase the number of children served by the frankie lemmon school and developmental center and lemmon tree academy. The schools also serve typically developing children who pay tuition to attend.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Frankie lemmon has begun a pilot program called the lemmon tree academy. It is a continuation of education for children into grade level classes.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Through fundraising events and annual campaign contributions, the foundation's mission is to support the frankie lemmon school & developmental center and lemmon tree academy. The schools provide education for children with developmental disabilities and delays in an inclusive setting. The schools have the capacity to serve up to 100 children. During the current fiscal year, the number of children enrolled requiring additional attention due to their complex medical and developmental issues increased resulting in a reduction in the total students admitted during the fiscal year. Although the majority of children served have special needs, the schools do serve developing children as well. Services provided include speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and vision and hearing services, which are customized for each child.
$2,646,244 spentof which $2,576,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,646,244.
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 $8.6M to $11M (+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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Marsha Hargette
Executive director
Board chair
Alan Hughes
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $32k → $261k.
13 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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: $20k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Frankie Lemmon Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 49% · 2019 88% · 2020 45% · 2021 31% · 2022 59% · 2023 29% — 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
36% of FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
83% of FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $451k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like FRANKIE LEMMON 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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Frankie Lemmon School & Developmental Center · exempt
- Lemmon Tree Academy · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC?
- FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,713,385 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ($1,550,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $2,713,385 in grants to FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRANKIE LEMMON FOUNDATION INC?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES is the largest funder on record, with $1,550,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRANKIE LEMMON 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.
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 33 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