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Pastors For NC Children

Pastors For NC Children (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,000 to it, the largest being Z SMITH REYNOLDS FOUNDATION INC ($130,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$80k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$156k
Net assets
$64k
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 84%
01What it does

What Pastors For NC Children does

Mission

They seek to connect pastors and congregations across NC to advocate for the public education needs to support NCs 1.4 million school children.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Tabled at Local, Regional, and National Conferences with various faith communities to share about PNCCs work Participated in Advocacy Days at the NC Legislature with various Coalition partners to support public schools. Presented workshops and presentations at churches across North Carolina, preached in worship services Spoke at Press Conferences with coalition partners and gave media comment to support public schools. Served on planning team for the founding of the Blueprint Faith Table. Hosted Amanda Tyler for a book discussion in Cary, NC for How to End Christian Nationalism Worked with the Baptist Joint Committee on Religious Liberty to begin forming Christians Against Christian Nationalism in NC

    $6,914 spent$80,356 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,914.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($59k) Expenses 100 ($39k) Net assets 100 ($21k)2023 Revenue 113 ($66k) Expenses 134 ($52k) Net assets 169 ($35k)2024 Revenue 147 ($86k) Expenses 162 ($62k) Net assets 282 ($59k)2025 Revenue 137 ($80k) Expenses 196 ($76k) Net assets 305 ($64k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (137)Expenses (196)Net assets (305)

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 $36k to $60k (+69%).

$24k
$36k
$60k
$66k
2022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$20k
’22
$14k
’23
$24k
’24
$5k
’25
11
months of
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

Rev Suzanne Parker Miller

Executive Director

Board chair

Rev Deacon Rebecca Bean

Board President

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2022202320242025
Listed1212119
Joined·+2+3+4
No longer listed·246
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7k → $30k.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
2
1
1

From the IRS filings of Pastors For NC Children’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

Pastors For NC Children leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 61% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

83% of Pastors For NC Children's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Pastors For NC Children

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

9% of spending goes to programs.

Program 9%Management 91%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Pastors For NC Children?
Pastors For NC Children (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,000 to it, the largest being Z SMITH REYNOLDS FOUNDATION INC ($130,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Pastors For NC Children have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $156,000 in grants to Pastors For NC Children, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Pastors For NC Children?
Z SMITH REYNOLDS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $130,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Pastors For NC Children 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing