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Philips Academy of North Carolina Inc

Philips Academy of North Carolina Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,411,815 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($920,900). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.7M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$2.4M
Net assets
$6.1M
11/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Philips Academy of North Carolina Inc does

Mission

Philips Academy is a private non-profit school for students in Middle & High School with complex language, learning and/or cognitive disabilities. Our mission is to provide our students with the academic, occupational and social skills needed to be self-reliant, confident and contributing members of their communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The school provides a place for students with learning disabilities to receive a quality education. 74 students were served during the 2024-2025 school year.

    $1,860,524 spentof which $176,352 as grants$1,666,083 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,860,524.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($919k) Expenses 100 ($781k) Net assets 100 ($761k)2018 Revenue 210 ($1.9M) Expenses 101 ($789k) Net assets 250 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 171 ($1.6M) Expenses 126 ($985k) Net assets 328 ($2.5M)2020 Revenue 133 ($1.2M) Expenses 156 ($1.2M) Net assets 330 ($2.5M)2021 Revenue 186 ($1.7M) Expenses 160 ($1.2M) Net assets 392 ($3.0M)2022 Revenue 268 ($2.5M) Expenses 191 ($1.5M) Net assets 508 ($3.9M)2023 Revenue 197 ($1.8M) Expenses 218 ($1.7M) Net assets 513 ($3.9M)2024 Revenue 399 ($3.7M) Expenses 257 ($2.0M) Net assets 731 ($5.6M)2025 Revenue 293 ($2.7M) Expenses 299 ($2.3M) Net assets 799 ($6.1M)
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Revenue (293)Expenses (299)Net assets (799)Peer revenue range

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 $5.1M to $6.8M (+34%).

$968k
$2.1M
$2.6M
$2.7M
$3.2M
$4.0M
$5.1M
$6.8M
$7.2M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

31% of Philips Academy of North Carolina Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$138k
’17
$1.1M
’18
$589k
’19
$8k
’20
$466k
’21
$974k
’22
$104k
’23
$1.7M
’24
$356k
’25
6.2
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.

Board chair

Ed Imbrogno

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed131413121312151515
Joined·+3+1+1+2+0+4+2+2
No longer listed·22211122
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $43k → $225k.

10 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 Philips Academy of North Carolina 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

Philips Academy of North Carolina Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

92% 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 Philips Academy of North Carolina Inc.

38%
largest funder
87%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 84% · 2019 47% · 2020 63% · 2021 82% · 2022 46% · 2023 54% — 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.

How long its funders stay

42% of Philips Academy of North Carolina Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

91% of Philips Academy of North Carolina Inc'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 $222k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

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

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Philips Academy of North Carolina Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve6.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Philips Academy of North Carolina 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 10%Fundraising 10%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

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Questions and answers

Who funds Philips Academy of North Carolina Inc?
Philips Academy of North Carolina Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,411,815 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($920,900). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Philips Academy of North Carolina Inc have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $2,411,815 in grants to Philips Academy of North Carolina Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Philips Academy of North Carolina Inc?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $920,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Philips Academy of North Carolina 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.

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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 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