North Carolina · Nonprofit
NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC
NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,202,823 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($700,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation Inc does
Mission
To marshal north carolina's great people, ideas, and achievements to ensure opportunity and success for every child.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Promoting understanding:* effectively communicating the importance of early childhood investments.* centering racial equity in our work and communicating why it is critical to close the opportunity gap for children of color in their earliest years.* engaging business leaders and elected officials to champion early care and education.* elevating community and family voices to guide decision-making.continued on schedule ospearheading collaboration:* convening state and local health, education, family, business, and policy leaders to build strong alignment across early childhood systems and actively foster discussion, dialogue, and collaboration.*encouraging accountability.advancing policies:* providing policy analysis, resources, and data.* inspiring innovation and action for change.* connecting and clarifying the complex landscape of policies, programs, research, and state agency agendas that impact children and families.
$820,676 spentof which $104,298 as grants$28,871 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $820,676.
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 2023 to 2024, from $976k to $2.0M (+102%).
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: 2019 43% · 2020 23% · 2021 21% · 2022 25% · 2023 21% · 2024 5% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC’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.
Chief executive
Theresa Stacker
Executive director
Board chair
Marian Earls
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $305k → $83k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION 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
NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 46% · 2021 97% · 2022 69% · 2023 66% — diversifying over time.
“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
30% of NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC draws 53% 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. $825k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC: 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 NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC?
- NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,202,823 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($700,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,202,823 in grants to NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $700,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH CAROLINA EARLY CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION 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.
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 17 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