North Carolina · Nonprofit
INMATES TO ENTREPRENEURS INC
INMATES TO ENTREPRENEURS INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,476 to it, the largest being Bob Barker Foundation Inc ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $115k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Inmates to Entrepreneurs Inc does
Mission
To assist people with a criminal background in starting their own business by providing resources and entrepreneurship education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Inmates to Entrepreneurs hosts two hour correctional facility boot camps across the country. Our instructors provide an overview of starting a low-capital business as well as handouts to help facilitate note taking. These boot camps are conducted virtually; however North Carolina facilities can request in-person boot camps if they would like. Correctional facilities can register for a boot camp here: https : inmatestoentrepreneurs. org programs correctional-facility-workshops-2
$92,690 spent100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $92,690.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $1.8M to $14k (−99%).
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 INMATES TO ENTREPRENEURS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Alexandria Thomas
Executive Director
Board chair
Lawrence Carpenter
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $18k → $71.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $57k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Brian Hamilton Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money INMATES TO ENTREPRENEURS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of INMATES TO ENTREPRENEURS INC’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
INMATES TO ENTREPRENEURS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
40% 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 INMATES TO ENTREPRENEURS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 55% · 2022 61% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
92% of INMATES TO ENTREPRENEURS INC'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. $7k 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
INMATES TO ENTREPRENEURS INC's revenue fell 96% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,661 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like INMATES TO ENTREPRENEURS INC
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INMATES TO ENTREPRENEURS INC: 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 INMATES TO ENTREPRENEURS INC?
- INMATES TO ENTREPRENEURS INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,476 to it, the largest being Bob Barker Foundation Inc ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INMATES TO ENTREPRENEURS INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $18,476 in grants to INMATES TO ENTREPRENEURS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INMATES TO ENTREPRENEURS INC?
- Bob Barker Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INMATES TO ENTREPRENEURS INC 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 5 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing