North Carolina · Nonprofit
SOAR Inc
SOAR Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $863,279 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($165,300). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $863k
- Net assets
- $5.5M
What SOAR Inc does
Mission
Soar is a seasonal accredited educational academy, gap year program, and outdoor adventure camp dedicated to a two-fold purpose: to provide academic instruction, experiential education, interpersonal life skills development and outdoor adventure based programming to youth dealing with learning disabilities, and/or attention deficit disorders through their participation in the academy at soar. To provide experiential education, interpersonal life skills development and outdoor adventure based programming to youth, young adults and families dealing with learning disabilities, and/or attention deficit disorders through soar's outdoor adventure camp programs, gap year program, and community based services. Soar embraces a commitment to service that is evident in the professional and community involvement of its staff members. Soar is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Participants in SOAR's summer camps, Academy and GAP year programs take part in adventure experiences designed to develop problem solving skills, effective communication strategies, general social skills and to increase self-awareness . By achieving success in such activities as rock climbing, whitewater rafting, SCUBA, horseback riding, kayaking and more, each student builds essential self-esteem and self-confidence that translates into all walks of life. SOAR's success based programs focus on the gifts and abilities of each youth- strengths that will launch them into a life filled with opportunity and success. As an accredited boarding school, our Academy at SOAR has granted students high school diplomas as they have successfully completed required coursework.
$4,107,646 spentof which $163,307 as grants$4,730,250 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,107,646.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $7.3M to $9.3M (+28%).
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: 2020 11% · 2021 9% · 2022 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of SOAR Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $9k → $161k.
10 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 SOAR 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
SOAR Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
72% 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 SOAR Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 77% · 2019 31% · 2020 79% · 2021 43% · 2022 72% · 2023 62% — 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
36% of SOAR Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
69% of SOAR Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $267k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $596k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
SOAR Inc is better cushioned than half of the 2,187 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,187 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SOAR Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $139 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $139
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SOAR 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 SOAR 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 SOAR Inc?
- SOAR Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $863,279 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($165,300). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOAR Inc have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $863,279 in grants to SOAR Inc, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOAR Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $165,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOAR 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 27 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing