North Carolina · Nonprofit
Prodigal Son Foundation
Prodigal Son Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,966 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($86,966). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $116k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $174k
- Net assets
- $8k
What Prodigal Son Foundation does
Mission
Providing education enrichment
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The summer program is extension of the of the after school enrichment Program providing education entrichment for scholars during the summer months
$105,543 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $105,543.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $29k to $11k (−60%).
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%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Prodigal Son Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $13k → $47k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Prodigal Son Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
Prodigal Son Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 Prodigal Son Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 57% · 2022 63% · 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
82% of Prodigal Son Foundation'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. $63k 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
Prodigal Son Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,636 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,636 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Organizations like Prodigal Son 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
100%
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 Prodigal Son 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 Prodigal Son Foundation?
- Prodigal Son Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $173,966 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC ($86,966). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Prodigal Son Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $173,966 in grants to Prodigal Son Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Prodigal Son Foundation?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $86,966 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Prodigal Son 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 6 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