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GLOW WILMINGTON INC

GLOW WILMINGTON INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,519,764 to it, the largest being BEACON EDUCATION INC ($8,508,764). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$974k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$8.5M
Net assets
$4.7M
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 82%
01What it does

What Glow Wilmington Inc does

Mission

To provide facilities to the girls leadership academy of wilmington charter school.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided facilities to the girls leadership academy of wilmington charter school.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($9.3M) Expenses 100 ($92k) Net assets 100 ($9.2M)2020 Revenue 12 ($1.1M) Expenses 615 ($567k) Net assets 23 ($2.2M)2021 Revenue 10 ($901k) Expenses 808 ($745k) Net assets 24 ($2.2M)2022 Revenue 29 ($2.7M) Expenses 726 ($670k) Net assets 53 ($4.8M)2023 Revenue 9 ($808k) Expenses 1144 ($1.1M) Net assets 55 ($5.1M)2024 Revenue 11 ($1.0M) Expenses 1400 ($1.3M) Net assets 53 ($4.8M)2025 Revenue 10 ($974k) Expenses 1182 ($1.1M) Net assets 51 ($4.7M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (10)Expenses (1182)Net assets (51)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $16M to $27M (+72%).

$22M
$16M
$16M
$27M
$27M
$26M
$25M
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of GLOW WILMINGTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$9.2M
’19
$574k
’20
$155k
’21
$2.0M
’22
−$248k
’23
−$254k
’24
−$117k
’25
1.3
months of
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.

Board chair

Andi Van Trigt

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed3333333
Joined·+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7.6M → $887k.

Funder
'19
'20
'24*
'25*
total
$8.5M
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of GLOW WILMINGTON 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

GLOW WILMINGTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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

100% 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 GLOW WILMINGTON INC.

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 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

100% of GLOW WILMINGTON INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NV
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
North Carolina out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GLOW WILMINGTON INC's revenue fell 90% between 2019 and 2025.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−31% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like GLOW WILMINGTON INC

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In North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Beacon Education Inc · exempt
  • Girls Leadership Academy of Wilmington Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds GLOW WILMINGTON INC?
GLOW WILMINGTON INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,519,764 to it, the largest being BEACON EDUCATION INC ($8,508,764). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GLOW WILMINGTON INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $8,519,764 in grants to GLOW WILMINGTON INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GLOW WILMINGTON INC?
BEACON EDUCATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,508,764 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GLOW WILMINGTON 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 2019–2025), 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