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THE JOHNSTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

THE JOHNSTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,638 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$203k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$75k
Net assets
$1.3M
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What The Johnston County Education Foundation Inc does

Mission

To provide additional funding to public schools in johnston county

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The support and create programs that expand the quality of education. Eight grants were awarded in fiscal year ending june 30,2023

    $9,860 spentof which $4,250 as grants
    9% of program spending
  2. To enhance public education through financial amd human resources from the private sector. Eighty eight scholarships were awarded in fiscal year ending june 30, 2023

    $94,744 spentof which $77,950 as grants
    91% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $104,604.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($175k) Expenses 100 ($200k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 108 ($188k) Expenses 95 ($189k) Net assets 103 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 103 ($180k) Expenses 100 ($200k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 35 ($61k) Expenses 79 ($159k) Net assets 93 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 113 ($198k) Expenses 80 ($160k) Net assets 110 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 95 ($166k) Expenses 69 ($138k) Net assets 89 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 41 ($71k) Expenses 82 ($164k) Net assets 91 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 99 ($173k) Expenses 76 ($152k) Net assets 103 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 116 ($203k) Expenses 33 ($66k) Net assets 114 ($1.3M)
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Revenue (116)Expenses (33)Net assets (114)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.3M to $1.0M (−19%).

$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.0M
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.3M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

44% of THE JOHNSTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$25k
’17
−$1k
’18
−$20k
’19
−$98k
’20
$37k
’21
$27k
’22
−$93k
’23
$21k
’24
$137k
’25
244
months of
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

Darla Peedin

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed151616161516161515
Joined·+4+3+1+8+2+0+6+0
No longer listed·33191070
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $260 → $5k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 THE JOHNSTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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

THE JOHNSTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

79% 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 THE JOHNSTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC.

40%
largest funder
86%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 80% · 2022 97% · 2023 99% — 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

79% of THE JOHNSTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 $15k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states.

KS
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $59k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE JOHNSTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin68% · top quartile
Months of reserve243.7mo · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

31% of spending goes to programs.

Program 31%Management 54%Fundraising 16%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

72%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE JOHNSTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
THE JOHNSTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,638 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($30,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE JOHNSTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $74,638 in grants to THE JOHNSTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE JOHNSTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE JOHNSTON COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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