North Carolina · Nonprofit
SANDHILLS STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC
SANDHILLS STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,000 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MOORE COUNTY ($19,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $46k
What Sandhills Student Assistance Inc does
Mission
To assist at risk kindergarten through 12th grade students with in-kind aid in the form of food, clothing, and other aid, as needed, including for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under 501(c)(3) & 170(c)(2) of the internal revenue code.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Student aid to kindergarten through 12th grade students
$6,888 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $6,888.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $25k to $39k (+51%).
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.
100% of SANDHILLS STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
John V O Kennard
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $6k.
From the IRS filings of SANDHILLS STUDENT ASSISTANCE 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
SANDHILLS STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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
73% 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 SANDHILLS STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
100% of SANDHILLS STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC'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. 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
SANDHILLS STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,510 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,510 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SANDHILLS STUDENT ASSISTANCE 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
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 SANDHILLS STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC: 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 SANDHILLS STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC?
- SANDHILLS STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,000 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MOORE COUNTY ($19,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SANDHILLS STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $26,000 in grants to SANDHILLS STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SANDHILLS STUDENT ASSISTANCE INC?
- UNITED WAY OF MOORE COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $19,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SANDHILLS STUDENT ASSISTANCE 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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