North Carolina · Nonprofit
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,567,459 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($1,059,800). 1 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 FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Western North Carolina Regional does
Mission
WORKING TOGETHER FOR THE CHILDREN OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. Providing enhanced regional education through facilitating peer support groups, sharing best practices, offering high-quality professional development programming throughout the region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The stem tech conference, wresa professional development,smart tank and pd assisted in increasing the science,technology,engineering,math and entrepreneurial applications within the schools from kindergarten through twelfth grade.the professional development included entrepreneurship lesson infusion and stem class/lesson enhancement/enrichment. Additionally,these funds provided cost recovery of the bookkeeping,record keeping,evaluation,coordiation and reporting by wresa for the grant.
$1,968,252 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,968,252.
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 $326k to $842k (+158%).
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 11% · 2022 9% · 2023 9% · 2024 5% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Jan Webster
Executive director
Board chair
Sonna Lyda
Chair person
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $16k → $181k.
3 of 7 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 WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL’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
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 94% — diversifying over time.
“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
69% of WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL'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 $488k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M 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.
Against its field
WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL
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
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL: 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 WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL?
- WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,567,459 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($1,059,800). 1 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 WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,567,459 in grants to WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,059,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA REGIONAL 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 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