North Carolina · Nonprofit
HICKORY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
HICKORY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being TEGNA FOUNDATION INC ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $76k
What Hickory Public Schools Education Foundation does
Mission
To manage charitable gifts received to benefit the hickory public schools. Solicits funds to invest over an extended period of time with net earnings to benefit the hickory public school activities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Support hickory public school activities. Lunch activity helps offset deficits in student lunch accounts as well as treat the faculty to appreciation lunches.
Project potential is a scholarship program that provides assistance to students who have higher academic potential but are performing below their ability, due to extenuating circumstances.
$6,172 spent56% of program spendingSupport hickory public school teachers. Awards were given to recognize teachers of the year for outstanding service.
$4,850 spent44% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $11,022.
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 2018 to 2019, from $30k to $127k (+330%).
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.
100% of HICKORY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of HICKORY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
HICKORY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.
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
HICKORY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION's revenue fell 76% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like HICKORY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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.
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HICKORY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- HICKORY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being TEGNA FOUNDATION INC ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HICKORY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to HICKORY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of HICKORY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- TEGNA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HICKORY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 1 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