North Carolina · Nonprofit
VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF CHEROKEE INC
VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF CHEROKEE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $91,250 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($91,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $949k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $91k
- Net assets
- $436k
What Vocational Opportunities of Cherokee Inc does
Mission
To serve as a community based rehabilitation and habilitation training program for persons with disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ctvrp services - ctvrp services is a federal funded program that provides vocational rehabilitation services to consumers with disabilities who experience significant disadvantages to finding, obtaining, and retaining gainful employment based on mental and/or physical challenges to enable them to become self-sufficient.
$462,619 spent72% of program spendingContract services - contract services is our business service component where we identify service opportunities such as lawn maintenance, landscaping, pressure washing, brush removal, vehicle washing, and other temporary worker services for the employment of people who have barriers to employment. These services provide seasonal and temporary employment to the population of people who have barriers to employment and any remaining funds from contract services are utilized to fund programs for our consumers with more severe disabilties.
$111,715 spent$68,909 earned by the program17% of program spendingClient services - client services provide a day program for our consumers with more severe disabilities. These consumers participate in a classroom setting part of the day to learn life skills and they participate in social inclusion activities during the remaining part of the day.
$70,151 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $644,485.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.0M to $1.2M (+23%).
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: 2017 39% · 2018 46% · 2019 54% · 2020 69% · 2021 72% · 2022 77% · 2023 68% · 2024 67% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF CHEROKEE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Kimlyn Lambert
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 $9k → $19k.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF CHEROKEE 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.
Where its funders are
100% of VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF CHEROKEE 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $91k 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
VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF CHEROKEE INC's revenue fell 48% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,448 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF CHEROKEE 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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF CHEROKEE INC?
- VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF CHEROKEE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $91,250 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($91,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF CHEROKEE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $91,250 in grants to VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF CHEROKEE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF CHEROKEE INC?
- NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $91,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF CHEROKEE 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 1 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