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IVY COMMUNITY SERVICE FOUNDATION OF CARY INC

IVY COMMUNITY SERVICE FOUNDATION OF CARY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,883 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($25,787). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$96k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$40k
Net assets
$234k
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Ivy Community Service Foundation of Cary Inc does

Mission

To offer programs to the community in areas of education, health, economics and arts.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Supported education mission by providing scholarships to local high school seniors and college students and other educational and mentoring programs.

    $31,550 spentof which $3,000 as grants
    57% of program spending
  2. Support mission by providing grants to local arts and community programs.

    $5,000 spent
    9% of program spending
  3. Supported local programs in health, economics, literacy and poverty.

    $18,437 spent
    34% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $54,987.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($60k) Expenses 100 ($38k) Net assets 100 ($166k)2022 Revenue 121 ($72k) Expenses 138 ($53k) Net assets 112 ($185k)2023 Revenue 135 ($81k) Expenses 200 ($76k) Net assets 117 ($194k)2024 Revenue 113 ($68k) Expenses 192 ($73k) Net assets 116 ($193k)2025 Revenue 160 ($96k) Expenses 156 ($60k) Net assets 141 ($234k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (160)Expenses (156)Net assets (141)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 2024 to 2025, from $193k to $234k (+21%).

$166k
$185k
$194k
$193k
$234k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of IVY COMMUNITY SERVICE FOUNDATION OF CARY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
’21
$20k
’22
$5k
’23
−$5k
’24
$36k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $126.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 IVY COMMUNITY SERVICE FOUNDATION OF CARY 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

IVY COMMUNITY SERVICE FOUNDATION OF CARY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

66% 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 IVY COMMUNITY SERVICE FOUNDATION OF CARY INC.

65%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 79% · 2021 55% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

66% of IVY COMMUNITY SERVICE FOUNDATION OF CARY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $14k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

NY
NC

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

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’20
’21
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

IVY COMMUNITY SERVICE FOUNDATION OF CARY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like IVY COMMUNITY SERVICE FOUNDATION OF CARY 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

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds IVY COMMUNITY SERVICE FOUNDATION OF CARY INC?
IVY COMMUNITY SERVICE FOUNDATION OF CARY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,883 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($25,787). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does IVY COMMUNITY SERVICE FOUNDATION OF CARY INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $39,883 in grants to IVY COMMUNITY SERVICE FOUNDATION OF CARY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of IVY COMMUNITY SERVICE FOUNDATION OF CARY INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,787 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IVY COMMUNITY SERVICE FOUNDATION OF CARY 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 2021–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing