North Carolina · Nonprofit
PATENT QUALITY EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION
PATENT QUALITY EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,000 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $-6077
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $152k
What Patent Quality Education & Training Foundation does
Mission
The foundation shall have as its specified principal purpose (a) providing financial, advisory and other support and assistance to programs and/or initiatives of accredited law schools, with a special but non-exclusive focus on law schools that are owned by (or operated under the auspices and control of) an historically black college or university (an "hbcu"), which programs and/or initiatives are focused on (I) improving the quality and integrity of protection of intellectual property rights under applicable patent laws and (ii) teaching and equipping students at such law schools with practical skills that enhance their prospects for successful careers in the area of patent or other intellectual property law, (b) allocating donor resources contributed to the foundation in the most effective manner to advance the foregoing and (c) providing accountability therfore to donors, other supporters and constituencies of the foundation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provided financial, advisory and other support and assistance to accredited law schools focused on improving the quality and integrity of protection of intellectual property rights under applicable patent laws and for teaching and equipping students with practical skills in the area of patent or other intellectual property law.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2020 to 2021, from $148k to $188k (+27%).
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.
89% of PATENT QUALITY EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $22k → $10k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 PATENT QUALITY EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION’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
PATENT QUALITY EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
100% 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 PATENT QUALITY EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 55% · 2022 100% — 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
63% of PATENT QUALITY EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION'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 $12k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
PATENT QUALITY EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION's revenue fell 103% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like PATENT QUALITY EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION
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.
Public support
99%
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 PATENT QUALITY EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION: 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 PATENT QUALITY EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION?
- PATENT QUALITY EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,000 to it, the largest being DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PATENT QUALITY EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $32,000 in grants to PATENT QUALITY EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PATENT QUALITY EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION?
- DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PATENT QUALITY EDUCATION & TRAINING FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing