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UNITY CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL A CHALLENGE FOUNDATION ACADEMY

UNITY CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL A CHALLENGE FOUNDATION ACADEMY (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,848 to it, the largest being Together Each Achieves More NC ($47,743). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$14M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$58k
Net assets
$2.0M
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Unity Classical Charter School a Challenge Foundation Academy does

Mission

Through classical education's rigor, we strive to develop intellectually, morally, and physically excellent citizens who embrace learning and the desire to serve.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Core knowledge: all teachers in grades k - 8th grade have implemented using core knowledge for all of our social studies and science needs.

    $8,643,497 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Core knowledge language arts: this language arts program has been completely implemented by all teachers in all classrooms serving k-8th grade. Furthermore, it is also being utilized in our exceptional children (ec) classrooms. This includes not only the instructional sections, but assessment, intervention, remediation, and enrichment sections as well.

  3. Singapore math: this math curriculum has been completely implemented by all teachers in all classrooms serving k-8th grade. Furthermore, it is also being utilized in our exceptional children (ec) classrooms. This includes not only the instructional sections, but assessment, intervention, remediation, and enrichment sections as well.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,643,497.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($859k) Expenses 100 ($817k) Net assets 100 ($67k)2021 Revenue 309 ($2.7M) Expenses 270 ($2.2M) Net assets 1440 ($971k)2022 Revenue 447 ($3.8M) Expenses 422 ($3.4M) Net assets 578 ($389k)2023 Revenue 879 ($7.6M) Expenses 823 ($6.7M) Net assets 1072 ($723k)2024 Revenue 1708 ($15M) Expenses 1544 ($13M) Net assets 4130 ($2.8M)2025 Revenue 1668 ($14M) Expenses 1741 ($14M) Net assets 2993 ($2.0M)
201820212022202320242025
Revenue (1668)Expenses (1741)Net assets (2993)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 2023 to 2024, from $20M to $107M (+442%).

$67k
$978k
$17M
$20M
$107M
$104M
201820212022202320242025
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.

2018
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 94% · 2021 86% · 2022 93% · 2023 80% · 2024 53% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

70% of UNITY CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL A CHALLENGE FOUNDATION ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,251 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$42k
’18
$447k
’21
$393k
’22
$828k
’23
$2.1M
’24
$109k
’25
4.9
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

Sheila Goad Reddick

Executive director

Board chair

Susan Walker

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

201820212022202320242025
Listed7778710
Joined··+0+2+1+5
No longer listed··0122
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $48k → $47.

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 UNITY CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL A CHALLENGE FOUNDATION ACADEMY’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

UNITY CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL A CHALLENGE FOUNDATION ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 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 UNITY CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL A CHALLENGE FOUNDATION ACADEMY's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

UNITY CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL A CHALLENGE FOUNDATION ACADEMY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve4.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)49% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 39%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Unity Cc School Holdings LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds UNITY CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL A CHALLENGE FOUNDATION ACADEMY?
UNITY CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL A CHALLENGE FOUNDATION ACADEMY (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,848 to it, the largest being Together Each Achieves More NC ($47,743). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNITY CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL A CHALLENGE FOUNDATION ACADEMY have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $57,848 in grants to UNITY CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL A CHALLENGE FOUNDATION ACADEMY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNITY CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL A CHALLENGE FOUNDATION ACADEMY?
Together Each Achieves More NC is the largest funder on record, with $47,743 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNITY CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL A CHALLENGE FOUNDATION ACADEMY 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 2018–2025), 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