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LENOIR COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION

LENOIR COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being THE ALLSTATE FOUNDATION ($2,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$33k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$29k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Lenoir County Education Foundation does

Mission

Catalyst for educational excellence

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Provide funds to teachers & administrators in lenoir county public schools to implement programs & activities to increase education.

    $42,837 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,837.

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 ($36k) Expenses 100 ($42k) Net assets 100 ($1k)2020 Revenue 7 ($2k) Expenses 9 ($4k) Net assets 1587 ($19k)2021 Revenue 133 ($48k) Expenses 145 ($60k) Net assets 520 ($6k)2022 Revenue 87 ($31k) Expenses 59 ($24k) Net assets 1111 ($13k)2023 Revenue 122 ($44k) Expenses 105 ($44k) Net assets 1096 ($13k)2024 Revenue 190 ($68k) Expenses 101 ($42k) Net assets 3321 ($39k)2025 Revenue 91 ($33k) Expenses 103 ($43k) Net assets 2445 ($29k)
2017202020212022202320242025
Revenue (91)Expenses (103)Net assets (2445)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $13k to $39k (+203%).

$1k
$19k
$6k
$13k
$13k
$39k
$29k
2017202020212022202320242025
Total assets

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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of LENOIR COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$6k
’17
−$1k
’20
−$13k
’21
$7k
’22
−$174
’23
$26k
’24
−$10k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Derek Vestal

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $500.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of LENOIR COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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.

Where its funders are

LENOIR COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.

IL

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

’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

LENOIR COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−32% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · above the median

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

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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 LENOIR COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
LENOIR COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,000 to it, the largest being THE ALLSTATE FOUNDATION ($2,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LENOIR COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,000 in grants to LENOIR COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LENOIR COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
THE ALLSTATE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LENOIR COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 1 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