North Carolina · Nonprofit
WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN
WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN (North Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,402,666 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ($6,529,155). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $7.4M
- Net assets
- $782k
What Wilkes Community Partnership for Children does
Mission
Ensure children enter school healthy and ready to succeed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child care quality included the child care resource and referral (ccr&r) program and the kindergarten transition program. The ccr&r program provided training and on-site assistance to childcare professionals; provided a resource center for childcare professionals and families. 27 workshops/tranings offered; 15 childcare facilities with a least 1 staff member attending workshop/training; 100 childcare professionals attended at least 1 workshop/training; 26 childcare facilities received on-site consultation for improving quality; 216 on-site consultation visits to classrooms. The kindergarten transition program offered family-to-school connections by providing information about kindergarten options, registration information, and supporting resources addressing social emotional needs of children struggling with adult sepperation and the transition to kindergarten.4 collaborative meetings held with 16 participants; ready, set, learn started at 5 child care facilities; 180 ready, set, learn meetings held with 34 children participating and 33 parents.
$866,032 spentof which $624,681 as grants49% of program spendingFamily support - includes parent education and support, early literacy programs designed to enpower families to have necessary skills to raise healthy children, and community outreach and education. Circle of parents program provided parenting support and education using the circle of parents group model for families with a child or children between the ages of birth to five not yet enrolled in kindergarten. 30 group sessions conducted with 37 parents attended a support group meeting impacting 49 children. Circle of security parenting program gave caregivers theability to discuss their parenting styles so they can better understand their child's emotional needs in oreder to respond sensitvely to their child's cues in order to create a secure base for their child, which will enhance their child's self-esteem, resiliency and emotional regulation. 14 sessions held with 13 parents/guardians participating impacting 22 children. Literacy programs conducted included raising a reader, dolly parton imagination library, and play to learn. 17 childcare facilities with 30 classrooms participating in raising a reader involving 370 children; 24,206 books mailed to 2,460 children enriolled in…
$327,928 spentof which $50,858 as grants19% of program spendingChild care and education affordability included the quality stars program. The program provided financial assistance paid on a direct per child basis for the purchase of care and enhancements for temporary assistance for needy families(tanf) eligible or child care development fund(ccdf) eligible families to be used for child care provider salary supplements, health, education, sick leave benefits, materials, other center materials. 7 child care facilities participated with 193 subsidized children impacted.
$216,224 spentof which $203,193 as grants12% of program spendingNc pre-k included the nc pre-k kindergarten program. The program offered high quality childcare for 4 year old children with the goal of preparing them for success in school. 100 children served at child care sites.
$100,000 spentof which $100,000 as grants6% of program spendingHealth & safety included the behavior specialist and the child care health consultant programs. Behavior specialist provided on-site consultation, coaching, and training to provivers using the csefel model. 7 trainings offered and delivered with at least 1 professional representing 4 child care facilities; 32 total professionals attended a training; 8 child care facilities received on-site/virtual consultation. Child care health consultant provided child care providers health related services. Training, parent resources and materials were provided. 17 families received on-site training; 103 written or phone contacts conducted; 403 on-site consultation visits made; 5 facilities received intensive level services; 43 workshops conducted with 136 professionals attending; 16 healthy habits community events/presentatios/handouts conducted.
$137,031 spentof which $304 as grants8% of program spendingHurricane relief program provided services to individuals and childcare facilities impacted by hurricane helene.
$102,551 spentof which $102,370 as grants6% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,749,766.
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 2023 to 2024, from $415k to $727k (+75%).
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 93% · 2018 87% · 2019 91% · 2020 86% · 2021 88% · 2022 94% · 2023 81% · 2024 66% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Michelle Shepherd
Executive director
Board chair
Debbie Woodard
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $661k → $837k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 16 funders by total. 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
WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 94% · 2021 98% · 2022 95% · 2023 85% — 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.
How long its funders stay
67% of WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
100% of WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $232k 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
WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,615 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN?
- WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN (North Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,402,666 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ($6,529,155). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $7,402,666 in grants to WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN?
- NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,529,155 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILKES COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN 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 16 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