North Carolina · Nonprofit
Greene Lamp
Greene Lamp (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,165 to it, the largest being GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ($151,165). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.5M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $181k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Greene Lamp does
Mission
To provide services to low income families and individuals in the greene, lenoir, pitt, craven, duplin, edgecombe, martin, sampson, wayne, wilson and beaufort county areas that shall enhance their ability to become more self sufficient.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Greene Lamp head start is a comprehensive child development program serving low-income three and four year old children and their families in lenoir and greene counties. Priority is given to four-year olds. Head start provides services to 311 children and their families. Children must be 3 or 4 years of age on or before august 31st. The program's major goal is to provide a child development program that will encompass educational, medical, dental, nutritional, mental health, social services, and parent needs, as they relate to the individual child and his/her family and community. Children with special needs are mainstreamed with other children. The head start project provides services to children for 6 hour days (8:00 am 2:30 pm).
$6,450,222 spentof which $275,794 as grants$33,095 earned by the program74% of program spendingThe community services block grant program (csbg) provides extensive case management services to low-income families in order for them to become more self-sufficient and overcome poverty. The program seeks to ensure that its participants work towards the goal of bettering themselves so that they become productive citizens of the workforce and are able to seek and obtain employment. The program also teaches its participants how to build character as well as money management through budgeting workshops and sessions. The core of the project is based on the concept that stabilizing families for the long term, not just meeting immediate needs, is essential for reducing poverty. The most effective and efficient way to provides services to low-income people is through coordinated and consolidated efforts of all the resources available: human services agencies, religious institutions, schools, businesses, and government agencies. Job training, education, and counseling are among the available intermediate an long-term strategies. Participants in the program must be 18 years of age or older.
$1,989,199 spentof which $518,503 as grants23% of program spendingWioa is designed to help job seekers access employment, education, training and support services to succeed in the labor market and to match employers with the skilled workers they need to compete in the global economy.
$266,860 spentof which $90,099 as grants3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,706,281.
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 $2.5M to $3.0M (+21%).
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: 2018 99% · 2019 98% · 2020 98% · 2021 95% · 2022 92% · 2023 95% · 2024 99% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Greene Lamp’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Angela Bates
Executive director
Board chair
Angela C Ellis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $0 → $5k.
From the IRS filings of Greene Lamp’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 7 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
Greene Lamp leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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
83% 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 Greene Lamp.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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
Greene Lamp draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 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
Greene Lamp's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Greene Lamp receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $68.0M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$61.5M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$6.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Greene Lamp
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
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Greene Lamp: 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 Greene Lamp?
- Greene Lamp (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,165 to it, the largest being GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ($151,165). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Greene Lamp have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $181,165 in grants to Greene Lamp, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Greene Lamp?
- GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $151,165 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Greene Lamp 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 7 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