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KEY LEARNING CENTER

KEY LEARNING CENTER (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($23,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$44k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$48k
Net assets
$145k
0/3 repeat funders
01What it does

What Key Learning Center does

Mission

To provide advancement and inform best practices in education by serving as a site of research, teacher training, information sharing, and by creating a venue for teacher leaders to model innovative teaching methods.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. General programs - providing educational support, training, and course materials for instruction for students with learning differences.

    $17,013 spent
    54% of program spending
  2. Og teacher training - provides instruction in the orton-gillingham approach to structured literacy. Orton-gillingham certification is offered to trainees.

    $14,588 spent
    46% of program spending
  3. Msm teacher training - provides instruction and certification for multisensory math methods of teaching.

    $22 spent
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,623.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($131k) Expenses 100 ($59k) Net assets 100 ($92k)2023 Revenue 122 ($160k) Expenses 348 ($204k) Net assets 52 ($48k)2024 Revenue 236 ($309k) Expenses 367 ($215k) Net assets 154 ($142k)2025 Revenue 33 ($44k) Expenses 69 ($41k) Net assets 158 ($145k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (33)Expenses (69)Net assets (158)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 2023 to 2024, from $110k to $232k (+110%).

$93k
$110k
$232k
$216k
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of KEY LEARNING CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$72k
’22
−$44k
’23
$94k
’24
$3k
’25
13
months of
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

Carrie Erb

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 KEY LEARNING CENTER’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

KEY LEARNING CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

90% 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 KEY LEARNING CENTER.

48%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

100% of KEY LEARNING CENTER's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

KEY LEARNING CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−31% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like KEY LEARNING CENTER

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

73%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

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Questions and answers

Who funds KEY LEARNING CENTER?
KEY LEARNING CENTER (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,000 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($23,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KEY LEARNING CENTER have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $48,000 in grants to KEY LEARNING CENTER.
Who is the largest funder of KEY LEARNING CENTER?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $23,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KEY LEARNING CENTER 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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