North Carolina · Nonprofit
SMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY INC
SMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,388,827 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ($4,359,927). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $509k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $121k
What Smart Start of Yadkin County Inc does
Mission
To prepare all children birth to 5 years of age to be healthy and ready for kindergarten.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pre-School Scholarships/NC Pre-K Enhancements offer financial assistance for children to attend public pre-kindergarten classes. The purchase of care and enhancements are paid on a direct per child basis to public schools. 18 children received full scholarships to attend preschool through Yadkin County Schools.
$83,824 spentof which $83,824 as grants21% of program spendingThe Nurturing Parenting Program, Nurturing Skills for Families is a home-based program provided for families and their children birth to five, living in Yadkin County and at risk of child abuse and neglect and/or domestic violence. One full-time Parent Educator provided weekly face to face visits for 16 to 24 consecutive weeks to 20 families. Through the face-to-face visits parents learn about nurturing parenting routines, alternatives to hitting, child development, and ways to build self-esteem and self-concept in self and children. The Parent Educator implemented Core Lessons that met the specific needs of the family. The Nurturing Parenting Program provided weekly hospital visitation for family engagement and recruitment to the program. 276 weekly home visits were provided to 21 families.
$67,825 spentof which $67,825 as grants17% of program spendingEnhancing Child Care Quality is an activity designed to promote continuous quality improvement of child care centers and homes. Services provided include: (1) Technical assistance in the form of coaching and modeling provided to early childhood educators working in start-up, licensed and/or G.S. 110 child care facilities serving children birth to five years old. (2) Training for child care providers for DCDEE credit hours provided on child care related topics and coordination of CEU opportunities. 93 child care providers from 17 child care facilities attended at least one training offered. 47 training sessions were offered. 4 child care facilities received technical assistance to help with ECERS-R and ITERS-R standards. 2 family chid care homes received technical assistance to help with FCCERS-R standards.
$60,908 spentof which $1,525 as grants$2,690 earned by the program15% of program spendingEarly Childhood Resource Center
$59,404 spent15% of program spendingCommunity Outreach and Family Engagement
$30,926 spentof which $4,772 as grants8% of program spendingChild Care Health Consultant
$30,288 spentof which $30,288 as grants8% of program spendingProgram Coordination and Evaluation
$20,362 spent5% of program spendingKaleidoscope Play & Learn
$14,156 spentof which $60 as grants4% of program spendingDolly Parton Imagination Library
$12,503 spentof which $4,775 as grants3% of program spendingCrisis Child Care Subsidy
$7,628 spentof which $7,628 as grants2% of program spendingSupplements for Education
$6,100 spentof which $6,100 as grants2% of program spending
The 11 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $393,924.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $35k to $140k (+304%).
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 97% · 2022 96% · 2023 97% · 2024 97% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of SMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY INC’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. 2 of the last 5 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
Carolyn Choplin
Executive Director
Board chair
Tim Harrison
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $463k → $501k.
1 of 3 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.
From the IRS filings of SMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY 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
SMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
100% 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 SMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 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 SMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY 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. $28k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
SMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY 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.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY INC?
- SMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,388,827 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ($4,359,927). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $4,388,827 in grants to SMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY INC?
- NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,359,927 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SMART START OF YADKIN COUNTY 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), 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