North Carolina · Nonprofit
IMPRINTS CARES
IMPRINTS CARES (North Carolina) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,366,313 to it, the largest being SMART START OF FORSYTH COUNTY ($2,373,336). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
IMPRINTS CARES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Arts Council Incshared funderslocal
- The Eshelman Foundationportfolio match
- Charlie's Heart Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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: 2021 26% · 2022 16% · 2023 25% · 2024 29% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of IMPRINTS CARES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $60k → $1.2M.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 IMPRINTS CARES’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
IMPRINTS CARES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 IMPRINTS CARES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 61% · 2021 47% · 2022 45% · 2023 41% — 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
100% of IMPRINTS CARES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
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
90% of IMPRINTS CARES's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 25 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Arts Council Incshared funderslocalNC · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · funds 48 organizations near you
- The Eshelman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charlie's Heart Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of the Cape Fear Area Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bankportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Salt Water Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Carolina Baptist Hospitalshared funderslocalNC · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 43 organizations near you
- Twin City Development Foundationshared funderslocalNC · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 61 organizations near you
- Greater Winston-Salem Inc FoundationlocalNC · funds 48 organizations near you
- The Millennium Fund CO Winston-Salem FoundationlocalNC · funds 22 organizations near you
- Flow Foundation Incshared funderslocalNC · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 39 organizations near you
- Kernersville Foundation InclocalNC · funds 23 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like IMPRINTS CARES
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 IMPRINTS CARES: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds IMPRINTS CARES?
- IMPRINTS CARES (North Carolina) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,366,313 to it, the largest being SMART START OF FORSYTH COUNTY ($2,373,336). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IMPRINTS CARES have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $8,366,313 in grants to IMPRINTS CARES, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IMPRINTS CARES?
- SMART START OF FORSYTH COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $2,373,336 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IMPRINTS CARES 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 25funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing