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Willow Tree Preschool

Willow Tree Preschool (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,339 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000). 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
$273k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$10k
Net assets
$215k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Willow Tree Preschool does

Mission

Binkley Preschool believes that all children regardless of ethnic,cultural or socio-economic isues have deserve a childhood education.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Binkley Preschool is a half-day preschool, serving children ages 2,3 and 4. The preschool is a play-based education that strives to foster a loving, nurturing environment that is challening, stimulating and age appropriate. Included in classroom curriculum is an introduction to music, physical education, drama, ans Spanish language. Outdoor acitivites are also performed each day under direct supervision. The 2-year program. New program include a weekly rate and music program for all students.

    $280,427 spent$273,159 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $280,427.

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 ($271k) Expenses 100 ($230k) Net assets 100 ($185k)2019 Revenue 96 ($262k) Expenses 105 ($242k) Net assets 111 ($205k)2020 Revenue 77 ($209k) Expenses 101 ($232k) Net assets 112 ($207k)2021 Revenue 33 ($89k) Expenses 64 ($147k) Net assets 79 ($147k)2022 Revenue 111 ($301k) Expenses 100 ($229k) Net assets 106 ($196k)2023 Revenue 86 ($234k) Expenses 98 ($225k) Net assets 5 ($9k)2024 Revenue 71 ($192k) Expenses 98 ($226k) Net assets 111 ($206k)2025 Revenue 101 ($273k) Expenses 122 ($280k) Net assets 116 ($215k)
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Revenue (101)Expenses (122)Net assets (116)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 $9k to $245k (+2599%).

$218k
$231k
$250k
$189k
$222k
$9k
$245k
$240k
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of Willow Tree Preschool’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$41k
’18
$20k
’19
−$23k
’20
−$58k
’21
$72k
’22
$9k
’23
−$34k
’24
−$7k
’25
10
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.

2018201920202021202220232025
Listed1310111111107
Joined·+3+5+5+1+7·
No longer listed·64518·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $11 → $10k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
2

2 of 2 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 Willow Tree Preschool’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

Willow Tree Preschool leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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

100% 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 Willow Tree Preschool.

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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

100% of Willow Tree Preschool'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. $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

Willow Tree Preschool is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve10.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

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

Organizations like Willow Tree Preschool

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Willow Tree Preschool: 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 Willow Tree Preschool?
Willow Tree Preschool (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,339 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,000). 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 Willow Tree Preschool have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,339 in grants to Willow Tree Preschool, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Willow Tree Preschool?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Willow Tree Preschool 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 2 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