North Carolina · Nonprofit
READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE
READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE (North Carolina) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,473,268 to it, the largest being THE DUKE ENDOWMENT ($19,256,731). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,749 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Greater Greensboro Incshared funderslocal
- Mdrcportfolio match
- Alliance for Early Success Fka Birth to Five Policy Allianceportfolio match
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.
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: 2022 13% · 2023 5% · 2024 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE’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. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $60k → $11M.
4 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.8M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Get Ready Guilford). These are real filings, and they are not money READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE raised.
From the IRS filings of READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE’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
READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 50% · 2019 79% · 2020 49% · 2021 82% · 2022 67% · 2023 92% — 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.
How long its funders stay
67% of READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
95% of READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE'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. $145k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 28 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Greater Greensboro Incshared funderslocalNC · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 56 organizations near you
- Mdrcportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance for Early Success Fka Birth to Five Policy Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Buffett Early Childhood Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Child Care Aware of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lena Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sexauer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The McCormick Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frieder Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Start Earlyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Incshared fundersNC · backs 19 organizations that share your funders
- Well-Spring Retirement Community Incshared funderslocalNC · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 33 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
26%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Guilford Technology Solutions LLC · disregarded
- Get Ready Guilford · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE?
- READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE (North Carolina) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,473,268 to it, the largest being THE DUKE ENDOWMENT ($19,256,731). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $24,473,268 in grants to READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE?
- THE DUKE ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $19,256,731 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 28funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing