North Carolina · Nonprofit
MIRA EDUCATION
MIRA EDUCATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,649,052 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($600,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Mira Education does
Mission
To support teams that build equitable improvement and sustainable innovation by connecting the people, practices, and potential within p20 public education systems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Personalizing professional learning: educators prefer to choose from individualized learning options that are as unique as themselves, their schools, and their students.k-12 public school systems spend $18 billion annually on professional development. But only 29% of teachers report high levels of engagement with that learning because it is often misaligned with what teachers and schools need. Not surprisingly, it doesn't always result in improved practice or increased student learning.personalized professional learning is designed to provide greater access to opportunities and resources for a more equitable and inclusive learning environment for students and educators who serve them. To meet the diverse learning needs of students, educators must have firsthand experience in learning that is personalized to their own diverse needs. Mira Education's approach provides a learner-centered system for educators to align their unique professional learning needs with those of their schools, districts, and states.Mira Education has supported more than 200 teams to develop and use micro-credentials as a lever for personalized professional learning systems. In conjunction with the university…
$482,798 spent59% of program spendingSupporting educator storytelling: we draw on storytelling tools for schools, districts, and other organizations to share stories that inspire others toward innovation in the field.stories are about showing and sharing unique insights. And the more diverse the roles, cultures, and lived experiences of storytellers, the better. When educators and other leaders share their stories of impact on students, classrooms, and systems, they pave the way for those bright spots to grow from one school or district or organization to another.Mira Education coaches educators and partners share their stories and results using field-tested storytelling tools. To ensure that a variety of audiences are engaged and inspired by these compelling narratives, we also design and assist partners in implementing effective communication strategies to share their stories.Mira Education facilitated retreats for educators and partners to capture success and learnings from pandemic-era instruction and celebrate the responsiveness of public schools to challenges faced.
$59,742 spent7% of program spendingDeveloping collective leadership: we build capacity of educator leaders to assess the impact of their work with colleagues, within their schools, and in their systems.transforming schools requires the expertise and engagement of every educator. Teachers and administrators need support to work as an aligned team. Teams must be inclusive of all roles and perspectives to successfully focus on shared responsibility for identifying challenges, setting goals, and doing the work of school-wide transformation and continuous improvement.Mira Education's collective leadership approach begins with clearly articulating the value of bigger circles of leaders that bring a needed diversity of perspectives. As schools and systems identify individual educators' strengths, develop cross-functional teams that leverage those strengths, and build processes to transform teaching and learning, all students and educators are more likely to benefit from their work.Mira Education supported principals and teachers in two states to learn and implement collective leadership practices that accelerate progress on school improvement and equity goals. Two of three participating schools participating in a full…
$269,470 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $812,010.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.6M to $672k (−59%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 3% · 2019 12% · 2020 18% · 2021 17% · 2022 65% · 2023 70% · 2024 80% · 2025 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of MIRA EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1.2M → $48.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 MIRA EDUCATION’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
MIRA EDUCATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
25% 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 MIRA EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 48% · 2019 59% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
10% of MIRA EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% give in more than one year at all.
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
MIRA EDUCATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
MIRA EDUCATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MIRA EDUCATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $49 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $49
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MIRA EDUCATION
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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIRA EDUCATION: 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 MIRA EDUCATION?
- MIRA EDUCATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,649,052 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($600,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MIRA EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,649,052 in grants to MIRA EDUCATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIRA EDUCATION?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIRA EDUCATION 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 11 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