North Carolina · Nonprofit
NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS
NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,115,000 to it, the largest being THE GOODNIGHT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ($700,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.8M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What North Carolina Education Corps does
Mission
North Carolina Education Corps is a nonprofit entity organized to accelerate student learning and strengthen communities by equipping adults to improve literacy outcomes of low-performing k-5 students.since 2021, the organization has focused on partnering with schools to create, develop, and implement high-impact tutoring programs to improve student achievement and attainment that benefits all students, especially students in need of additional support to master foundational reading skills.since inception, education corps has helped over 250 title 1 elementary schools in rural, suburban, and urban areas find, train, coach, and support high-dosage tutors (I.e., "corps members") who work with k-5 students in-person, at school, during the school day to improve student literacy outcomes in alignment with the science of reading and the multi-tiered system of supports framework.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Corps member (cm) learning:North Carolina Education Corps (ncec) supported corps members with best-in-practice professional development training, the latest in data-informed and research-based tutoring methodologies, and ongoing coaching and progress monitoring support to enhance the impact of community members in schools and to improve student growth.
$851,715 spent15% of program spendingRecruit:in '24-'25 ncec recruited 481 corps members who were hired and placed by 26 public school units to provide high-impact reading tutoring to 7,994 k-5 students performing below grade-level reading proficiency in approximately 188 north carolina elementary schools.
$733,566 spent13% of program spendingImplement:ncec provided school partners with high-impact tutoring program guidance and implementation support in alignment with national best practices, state standards, school priorities, scheduling, tutor management, progress monitoring, and program evaluation needs. This included supporting schools to make sure corps members provided targeted tutoring interventions to low-performing students in person, at school, three times per week, 30 minutes per session, in groups of 1-4 students per tutor, throughout the '24-'25 school year.
$2,851,033 spentof which $150,000 as grants49% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$1,413,683 spent24% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,849,997.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.9M to $3.2M (+70%).
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: 2021 100% · 2022 59% · 2023 84% · 2024 92% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS’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. 0 of the last 5 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
John-Paul Smith
Executive director
Board chair
Mike Ward
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $600k → $350k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 EDUCATION CORPS’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 EDUCATION CORPS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 EDUCATION CORPS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 83% · 2022 47% · 2023 86% — 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
76% of NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $540k 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
NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS has grown faster 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
Organizations like NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS: 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 EDUCATION CORPS?
- NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,115,000 to it, the largest being THE GOODNIGHT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ($700,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $2,115,000 in grants to NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH CAROLINA EDUCATION CORPS?
- THE GOODNIGHT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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 EDUCATION CORPS 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 8 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