North Carolina · Nonprofit
OPERATION XCEL PROMOTING EXCELLENT COMMUNITIES EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP
OPERATION XCEL PROMOTING EXCELLENT COMMUNITIES EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $795,018 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ($404,888). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $795k
- Net assets
- $743k
What Operation Xcel Promoting Excellent Communities Education and Leadership does
Mission
Recognizing the need to prepare children differently for success in the 21st century, operation xcel provides future-focused after-school, summer, and mentorship programs. We promote academic development and character growth through individual and target-based objectives, with a focus on individual development and achievement. We are guided by a strong work ethic and a dedication to community betterment. Through our academic and enrichment programs, we demonstrate our commitment - to providing equal access to quality educational resources, - to supporting diversity of thought, - to creating a strong foundation for the development of life long learners, - to fostering civic engagement, and to encouraging career mindfulness in our youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Operation xcel operated four 21st century community learning centers (21st cclc) and four expanded learning and integrated support sites (eliss). This fiscal year, we served 810 students at eight north carolina locations: two stokesdale sites, two high point sites, three greensboro sites, and one jamestown site. Most students come from low-income backgrounds and therefore would not have access to the type of services we provide. Operation xcel offers our services free to our families.we are guided by compassion, integrity, a strong work ethic, and a dedication to community betterment. Through our academic and enrichment programs, we demonstrate our commitment 1. To provide equal access to quality educational resources, 2. To support diversity of thought, 3. To create a strong foundation for the development of lifelong learners, 4. To foster civic engagement and 5. To encourage career mindfulness in our youth. Operation xcel is a place where learners are inspired to excel in every area of their lives and make meaningful changes in the world.we are passionate about giving our students and families all the time, resources, support, and encouragement they need to have the same…
$1,465,811 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,465,811.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $426k to $741k (+74%).
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: 2020 73% · 2021 77% · 2022 78% · 2023 70% · 2024 60% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of OPERATION XCEL PROMOTING EXCELLENT COMMUNITIES EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP’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. 1 of the last 6 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
Charlene Gladney
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $17k → $79k.
7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 OPERATION XCEL PROMOTING EXCELLENT COMMUNITIES EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 funders by total. 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
OPERATION XCEL PROMOTING EXCELLENT COMMUNITIES EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 OPERATION XCEL PROMOTING EXCELLENT COMMUNITIES EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 76% · 2021 44% · 2022 39% · 2023 38% — 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
50% of OPERATION XCEL PROMOTING EXCELLENT COMMUNITIES EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 54% 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
79% of OPERATION XCEL PROMOTING EXCELLENT COMMUNITIES EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP'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. $138k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
OPERATION XCEL PROMOTING EXCELLENT COMMUNITIES EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP 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 OPERATION XCEL PROMOTING EXCELLENT COMMUNITIES EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP
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
88% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OPERATION XCEL PROMOTING EXCELLENT COMMUNITIES EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP?
- OPERATION XCEL PROMOTING EXCELLENT COMMUNITIES EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $795,018 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC ($404,888). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERATION XCEL PROMOTING EXCELLENT COMMUNITIES EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $795,018 in grants to OPERATION XCEL PROMOTING EXCELLENT COMMUNITIES EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATION XCEL PROMOTING EXCELLENT COMMUNITIES EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC is the largest funder on record, with $404,888 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATION XCEL PROMOTING EXCELLENT COMMUNITIES EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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