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). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Ready for School Ready for Life does
Mission
The mission of ready for school, ready for life is to create, design, and implement a collaborative system of care for guilford county's youngest children and their families, fostering not only their academic development but also their socio-emotional growth. Our organization is committed to establishing a comprehensive system of care that supports all children and families in guilford county, ensuring they have access to programs that empower parents and caregivers and provide every baby with an equitable and strong start in life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Building a system of carethis program aims to create a coordinated network of services that ensures all families have access to the resources they need. The central initiative of this program is routes to ready, which uses navigators, child development specialists, and nurses in health care and community settings to universally reach, assess, and connect families to community resources. Routes to ready: in this multi-organization collaboration, non-medical staff work in healthcare settings, like obstetricians and pediatricians' offices, and nurse home visitors work in broader community spaces to reach and assess families. They help identify needs (including social determinants of health) and direct families to the appropriate local resources, such as parenting support, early intervention programs, and financial assistance. All of these partners also provide direct education, information, and support to varying degrees. Across routes to ready partners, 86% of families with identified needs with a known referral status have received at least one secured referral (meaning they have received the service).integrated data system (ids): the ids supports routes to ready by using…
$1,807,009 spentof which $300,000 as grants55% of program spendingExpand and improve programsthis effort seeks to assess and scale up proven programs, enhancing their ability to meet the needs of the families identified by routes to ready. It emphasizes strengthening both existing programs and organizations, ensuring they are well-equipped to serve children and families effectively.expanding evidence-based and evidence-informed programs: ready ready works to expand programs that have a proven track record of success in supporting families and young children. Evidence-based programs are those that have been rigorously evaluated, while evidence-informed programs incorporate the best available research and practice knowledge. From 2017 to 2024 ready ready more than tripled the service units available through funded evidence-based or evidence-informed programs for prenatal - 3 year olds.implementation support: ready ready provides partner organizations with technical assistance to help them successfully implement these programs. This may include providing guidance on best practices, facilitating access to resources, or offering training to staff.building local capacity: in addition to expanding programs, ready ready focuses on strengthening the…
$979,497 spentof which $125,000 as grants30% of program spendingChange systems and build public willthis program focuses on creating long-term systemic change by building public support for I ncreasing access to quality services, often via public policy changes. Creating awareness of these issues and coalescing support behind these strategies helps ensure their sustainability.supporting systems change: ready ready works with public systems (e.g., healthcare, education, and social services) to identify and remove barriers that prevent families from accessing high-quality care and services. This could involve advocating for policy changes, improving service delivery models, or enhancing coordination between agencies.building partnerships: the organization seeks to build strong partnerships with public systems and other stakeholders to create a more integrated approach to early childhood development.securing long-term sustainability: by advocating for systemic change and building broad public support, ready ready aims to secure the financial and policy foundations needed to sustain community programs over the long term.
$515,845 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,302,351.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.2M to $5.2M (+355%).
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
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
Laura Weber
Incoming chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
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; 79% 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.
Against its field
READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE
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.
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
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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.
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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). 22 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, 22 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 28 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