North Carolina · Nonprofit
HOME4ME
HOME4ME (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,178 to it, the largest being Wells Fargo Foundation ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $93k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Home4me does
Mission
Home4me is a voice for teens in foster care empowers teens aging out of the foster care system by providing hope, opportunities, mentoring, education(home), and a sense of family.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The leg up on life program provides guidance, support, education and real life skills to teens in foster care and young adults who have aged out of the foster care system. Loul college connection supports emancipated youth throughout their college experience and beyond by creating life long connections and developing family centered bonds. Leg up on life acronym is leadership - building relationships, effective leaders connecting with like-minded goals, visions and or purpose. Entrepreneurship - developing skills, talents and gifts to become successful in the field and industry chosen to pursue. Grooming - preparing for purpose, personal presentations, apparel, appearance and approach to your long term goals. Living skills - effectively navigating challenges, social skills, communication, household, skills to be successful in all areas. Innovative choices - what career work readiness or entrepreneurial path you desire and what creative tools to achieve your choices. Financial literacy - setting financial goals to be successful and responsible with money and investments. Educational paths - developing individual road maps to the educational path needed to accomplish your career, trade or entrepreneurial goals.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The leg up on life(luol) program provides guidance, support, education and real life life skills to teens in foster care and young adults who have aged out of the foster care system. Luol college connection supports emancipated youth throughout their college experience and beyond by creating life long connections and developing family centered bonds. Luol acronym is: leadership building relationships, effective leaders, connecting with like-minded goals, visions, and or purpose. Entrepreneurship, developing skills, talents and gifts to become successful in the field and industry chosen to pursue. Grooming preparing for purpose, personal presentations, apparel, appearance & approach to your long term goals. Living skills effectively navigating challenges, social skills, communication, household skills to be successful in all areas. Innovative choices what career work rediness or entrepreneurial path you desire and what creative tools to achieve your choices. Educational paths - developing individual road maps to the educational path needed to accomplish your career, trade or entrepreneurial goals.
$20,225 spent36% of program spendingA day in real life is a series of hands on life skills and assimilations that teach real life skills, financial literacy, college prep and which educational path to your goals, dreams and ambitions. From making your bed, washing clothes and cleaning house to dental hygiene, cooking in vs eating out, we teach everyday life skills that are missing in todays society. From credit to driver license, we make sure our young people are achieving aga appropriate goals, skills and receiving knowledge, opportunities and tools to be successful young productive assets to the community. Essentials - bed-in-a-bags, fill-a-suitcase, gift cards, teens in foster care resources end on their 18th birthday. While in the system the average move is 6 times or more. Youth are given a black garbage bag to move their items which has a negative on their self-esteem and mental health. Home4me provides them with a new suitcase filled with towels sets, sheet sets, an umbrella, resources and gift cards. They also receeive a bed-in-a-bag because we dont know what situation they are going into, but we do know they cannot control the temperature and we would rather they have a blanket to kick off if it is hot than…
$18,732 spent33% of program spendingTogether we win events/essentials: teens ages 13-15 know chances of them being adopted is slim to none; age 16 the weight of the world comes upon them because they have to start making adult decisions with little to no knowledge or information; at 17 they have 364 mor days and their resources end. 20,000 teens age out of foster care in the us every year. 20% will be instantly homeless, another 20% will experience homelessness in the first year of aging out,yet 84% of teens desire to attend college. However only 3% enroll, 1% graduates due to lack of housing, finances, guidance and support. Home4me partners with colleges, community corporations and churches to provide everything our young people need to graduate from college and onto their future endeavors. Home4me creatively host 3 major annual events: old school family cookout, ultimate birthday party, ultimate motivational vision board party(all family centered events) as a day to provide essentials, a day of respite, to stay in touch, recruit for college and programs and to celebrate and recognize how amazing our young people are.
$17,214 spent31% of program spendingHome4me is powered by passionate volunteers and generous in-kind support through our together we win strategy, we unite colleges, community corporations, and churches to meet the full spectrum of needs for teens in and aging out of foster care. College partners provide housing and academic opportunities. Community organizations offer emotional, mental, physical, financial and social support, as well as volunteers and essential items. Corporate partners invest in our programs through funding, jobs, training, and donations. Churches contribute spiritual and social care plus in-kind support like bed-in-a-bag sets, filled suitcases, gift cards, and wellness essentials.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $56,171.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $3k to $11k (+209%).
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.
137% of HOME4ME’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Donna L Reed
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $110 → $11k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 HOME4ME’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
HOME4ME leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
32% 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 HOME4ME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
HOME4ME draws 79% 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. $11k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
HOME4ME has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like HOME4ME
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
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOME4ME: 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 HOME4ME?
- HOME4ME (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,178 to it, the largest being Wells Fargo Foundation ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOME4ME have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $74,178 in grants to HOME4ME, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOME4ME?
- Wells Fargo Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOME4ME 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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