North Carolina · Nonprofit
FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC
FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,590,129 to it, the largest being THE CANNON FOUNDATION INC ($450,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Free Will Baptist Children's Home Inc does
Mission
Our vision is to see every child thrive and families flourish. Free will baptist children's home is called to provide a nurturing environment to promote the spiritual, emotional, educational and physical well being of children, youth and families. Our values are child focused, christ centered, family oriented and education minded.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Alternative family placement - our residential care program provides a loving, traditional home atmosphere for youth in a nurturing environment. Case management provides them with professional services to work toward goals based on physical, spiritual, educational, and emotional needs. Cottage staff provides support and encouragement to help youth become successful in making life-changing decisions and develop lasting relationships with family and peers.
$312,314 spent8% of program spendingFoster care/adoption - our foster care services recruit and train foster families to care for youth. These licensed homes provide a stable and nurturing environment to help support families in crisis and work toward reunification. When reunification is not possible, our staff provides adoption support for foster families who desire to give youth a forever home.
$749,512 spent20% of program spendingBridge learning center - our bridge learning center is a pre-k, before/after school and summer program serving pre-k - 5th grade children in our community. Bridge learning center works together as a family (administration, staff and parents) to provide the best environment for each child. Our goal is to provide positive relationships within the community and to nurture the children in all aspects of development including cognitive, physical, social, emotional and spiritual development.
$404,794 spent$194,504 earned by the program11% of program spendingThrive independent living - our independent living program provides stable and secure apartments on campus for youth 18 and up. Staff work with youth to obtain driver's licenses, develop life skills and work toward educational and employment goals. These goals are designed to prepare youth for independent adulthood and encourage them to build positive relationships.
$237,425 spent6% of program spendingChildren's services - this program provides a warm, nurturing environment with full-time cottage parents who teach our children beginning independent living skills, such as organizational, money and time management skills, as well as social skills and self advocacy skills. It provides a highly-disciplined environment and positive feedback that encourages adolescents to change negative behavior and attitudes to be more considerate, and respectful of norms.
$2,135,331 spent56% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,839,376.
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 2022 to 2023, from $15M to $18M (+17%).
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: 2017 56% · 2018 47% · 2019 53% · 2020 57% · 2021 52% · 2022 41% · 2023 42% · 2024 51% · 2025 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Gary Lee
President/CEO
Board chair
Johnny Sullivan
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $10k → $579k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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
FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
40% 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 FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 50% · 2019 75% · 2020 56% · 2021 40% · 2022 40% · 2023 52% — 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
71% of FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
88% of FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC'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. $527k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fwb Friends of Children Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC?
- FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,590,129 to it, the largest being THE CANNON FOUNDATION INC ($450,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,590,129 in grants to FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME INC?
- THE CANNON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREE WILL BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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