North Carolina · Nonprofit
FRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER
FRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER (North Carolina) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,073,084 to it, the largest being WAKE COUNTY SMART START INC ($974,593). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Frankie Lemmon School and Developmental Center does
Mission
For children with special educational needs and their families, the frankie lemmon school and development center provides life-changing, highly specialized, individualized education and therapies in a setting with a very low student-to-teacher ratio. This high-quality education prepares the children for a lifetime of maximized education as well as successful participation in family and community life.the school's philosophy of education is that all children, regardless of different abilities, are children first. This implies consideration of the child as an individual with special human needs and rights who is an integral part of his or her family and community. The school's curriculum addresses all areas of child development in a sequential developmental and early academic program.the frankie lemmon school and development center is a blend of self-contained classrooms and an inclusion program that is a unique collaboration with wake county public schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of the Frankie Lemmon School and Developmental Center is to educate and celebrate children of all abilities. Currently the school is serving 90 children ages 2-6 years old, and ultimately plans to reach the maximum capacity of 125 children in the future. Services provided include speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and vision and hearing services, which are customized for each child. Children who attend Frankie Lemmon School and Developmental Center enjoy music therapy, movement classes, nutritious daily meals and snacks as well as an optional summer enrichment program. The school's student to teacher ratio is never larger than 1:6 and all lead teachers have an nc teaching license.
$3,038,149 spent$918,552 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,038,149.
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 2017 to 2018, from $511k to $5.0M (+877%).
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 13% · 2022 24% · 2023 6% · 2024 3% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of FRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER’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. 5 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 FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $122k → $335k.
16 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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: $13M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Frankie Lemmon Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money FRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER raised.
From the IRS filings of FRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER’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 SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% 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 SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 56% · 2019 52% · 2020 54% · 2021 52% · 2022 50% · 2023 59% — 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
29% of FRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
96% of FRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER'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. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER has grown faster than half 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 SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER
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
87% 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 Foundation Inc · exempt
- Lemmon Tree Academy · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER?
- FRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER (North Carolina) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,073,084 to it, the largest being WAKE COUNTY SMART START INC ($974,593). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $2,073,084 in grants to FRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER?
- WAKE COUNTY SMART START INC is the largest funder on record, with $974,593 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER 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 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