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KIPP CHARLOTTE INC

KIPP CHARLOTTE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,778,349 to it, the largest being KIPP FOUNDATION ($1,152,306). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$12M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$2.8M
Net assets
$5.8M
12/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Kipp Charlotte Inc does

Mission

Operation of a north carolina public charter school

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide educational opportunities for children attending the charter school.

    $8,300,874 spent$126,904 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,300,874.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.8M) Expenses 100 ($5.8M) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 135 ($7.9M) Expenses 142 ($8.2M) Net assets -623 ($-6241288)2019 Revenue 145 ($8.4M) Expenses 154 ($8.9M) Net assets -667 ($-6691610)2020 Revenue 160 ($9.3M) Expenses 174 ($10M) Net assets -742 ($-7437235)2021 Revenue 351 ($20M) Expenses 177 ($10M) Net assets 271 ($2.7M)2022 Revenue 222 ($13M) Expenses 202 ($12M) Net assets 394 ($3.9M)2023 Revenue 226 ($13M) Expenses 213 ($12M) Net assets 479 ($4.8M)2024 Revenue 239 ($14M) Expenses 226 ($13M) Net assets 581 ($5.8M)2025 Revenue 214 ($12M) Expenses 213 ($12M) Net assets 580 ($5.8M)
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Revenue (214)Expenses (213)Net assets (580)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 2020 to 2021, from $8.7M to $17M (+89%).

$4.9M
$5.9M
$8.3M
$8.7M
$17M
$19M
$19M
$19M
$19M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 78% · 2018 84% · 2019 86% · 2020 87% · 2021 95% · 2022 91% · 2023 98% · 2024 98% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of KIPP CHARLOTTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’17
−$325k
’18
−$450k
’19
−$746k
’20
$10M
’21
$1.2M
’22
$823k
’23
$834k
’24
$150k
’25
7.2
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

Tim Saintsing

CEO

Board chair

Douglas Kahn

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed151415181511101719
Joined·+2+4+6+1+7+0+10+4
No longer listed·333411132
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $487k → $100k.

7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 KIPP CHARLOTTE 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

KIPP CHARLOTTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

68% 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 KIPP CHARLOTTE INC.

41%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 64% · 2019 34% · 2020 53% · 2021 53% · 2022 56% · 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.

How long its funders stay

26% of KIPP CHARLOTTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

KIPP CHARLOTTE INC draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 6 states in all.

MN
RI
CA
TN
NC
FL

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

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’20
’21
’22
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $640k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

KIPP CHARLOTTE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve7.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like KIPP CHARLOTTE 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.

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 32%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Kipp Enc Public Schools · exempt
  • Kipp North Carolina · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds KIPP CHARLOTTE INC?
KIPP CHARLOTTE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,778,349 to it, the largest being KIPP FOUNDATION ($1,152,306). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KIPP CHARLOTTE INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,778,349 in grants to KIPP CHARLOTTE INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KIPP CHARLOTTE INC?
KIPP FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,152,306 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KIPP CHARLOTTE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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