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HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N

HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,548,508 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($536,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$8.6M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$2.5M
Net assets
$6.5M
4/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Health Education Foundation of Eastern N does

Mission

To provide and support educational activities and services with a focus on primary care in rural communities and those with less access to resources to recruit, train, and retain the workforce needed to create a healthy north carolina. Located in rocky mount, area l ahec is one of nine centers in the nc ahec program and serves edgecombe, halifax, nash, northampton, and wilson counties.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provided continuing education programs and services to provide education in the field of health care to promote rural primary care and continuing education for all health care providers.

    $7,240,915 spentof which $24,950 as grants$8,050,734 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,240,915.

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 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.6M) Net assets 100 ($4.0M)2020 Revenue 130 ($4.0M) Expenses 141 ($3.7M) Net assets 109 ($4.4M)2021 Revenue 95 ($3.0M) Expenses 119 ($3.1M) Net assets 114 ($4.6M)2022 Revenue 155 ($4.8M) Expenses 166 ($4.3M) Net assets 116 ($4.7M)2023 Revenue 290 ($9.1M) Expenses 307 ($8.0M) Net assets 142 ($5.7M)2024 Revenue 293 ($9.2M) Expenses 337 ($8.8M) Net assets 161 ($6.4M)2025 Revenue 276 ($8.6M) Expenses 317 ($8.2M) Net assets 161 ($6.5M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (276)Expenses (317)Net assets (161)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 2022 to 2023, from $6.2M to $7.4M (+19%).

$4.5M
$5.1M
$6.0M
$6.2M
$7.4M
$7.6M
$8.5M
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

Government-grant reliance: 2019 69% · 2020 60% · 2021 66% · 2022 74% · 2023 73% · 2024 95% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

6% of HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$523k
’19
$386k
’20
−$129k
’21
$523k
’22
$1.1M
’23
$399k
’24
$390k
’25
1.7
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.

Chief executive

Debra Futrell

President/CEO

Board chair

Dr Kesha Rooks

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed16161616161716
Joined·+6+6+0+3+4+3
No longer listed·660334
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $58k → $507k.

Funder
'17
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Transcend Incunclassified
$400k
Mdc Incunclassified
$255k
New Schools Fundunclassified
$150k
New Profit Incunclassified
$100k
$58k
$48k
Camelback Venturesunclassified
$40k
funders
1
3
5
4
7
5
2
1

3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N’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

HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

95% 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 HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N.

21%
largest funder
56%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 68% · 2020 75% · 2021 58% · 2022 39% · 2023 79% — 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

29% of HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

62% of HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

ID
NY
MA
CA
AR
NC

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

’17
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $708k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve1.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 12%Fundraising 1%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

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Questions and answers

Who funds HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N?
HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,548,508 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($536,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,548,508 in grants to HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $536,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EASTERN N 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 15 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