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NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,758,550 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($1,247,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Childtrust Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Mdc Incshared funders
- The Goodnight Educational Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2025 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $270k → $643k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest North Carolina Association of School Administrators). These are real filings, and they are not money NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT raised.
From the IRS filings of NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT’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
NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 72% · 2021 78% · 2022 52% · 2023 81% — 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.
Where its funders are
71% of NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT'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 $511k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Childtrust Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchNC · backs 18 organizations that share your funders · funds 34 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mdc Incshared fundersNC · backs 17 organizations that share your funders
- The Goodnight Educational Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Carolina Glaxosmithkline Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Learning Policy Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John M Belk Endowmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Codeorgportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nea Foundation for the Improvement of Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Carolina Childrens Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Digital Promise Globalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Center for Civic Innovation Inportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Nc Association of School Admin · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT?
- NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,758,550 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($1,247,750). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $1,758,550 in grants to NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $1,247,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH CAROLINA ALLIANCE FOR SCHOOL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT 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.
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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing