Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$5,099,891

Total expenses

$4,905,650

Contributions and grants received

$5,047,628

Grants paid

$3,537,125

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$40,774

Other revenue

$11,489

Total assets, end of year

$1,752,142

Total liabilities, end of year

$110,124

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$1,642,018

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$4,514,868

Management and general expenses

$390,782

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$4,514,868

Program services were 92.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2023

• North Carolina Pre-Kindergarten Program (NC Pre-K) provides high-quality educational experiences to enhance school readiness for over 600 eligible four year old children in 47 classrooms in Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson, Macon, and Swain counties as well as the Qualla Boundary (Region A). Risk factors and eligibility are determined by the State of North Carolina. NC Pre-K provides licensed teachers and standardized curriculum in the classroom over a ten month program preparing children for kindergarten. NC Pre-K quality and capacity building funds are used to provide professional development to Pre-K teachers and classroom materials for high quality instruction.

  Expenses $3,432,195 · Grants $3,226,626

• Smart Start Programming. A North Carolina state-wide early childhood and education initiative provides the following family-centered programming. Parents As Teachers (PAT) Parent Educators who provide home visits, group connections, and child development assessments to 88 families in Region A. Child Care Health Consultants (CCHCs) provide technical assistance and training to 24 childcare facilities in Region A. Smart Start dollars were used to support the region's Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program with a monthly distribution of books to over 3,700 children in Region A. Smart Start funds also provide support to Region A's North Carolina childcare subsidy program, Family Support Network, overall project management and program evaluation.

  Expenses $919,172 · Grants $283,069

• Literacy Services. Regional literacy services that fall out of the parameters of Smart Start. For this reporting period, these services included 4 Sesame Street in Communities events with nearly 1,000 attendees. Funds were also used to provide over 120 visits to pediatric medical practices in which literacy resource materials were distributed based upon needs identified by the practice. Literacy spaces in physician office waiting rooms were also provided to 5 practices. Over 2,800 family literacy tool kits were distributes across the region to NC Pre-K classrooms, public libraries, the region's Children's Developmental Services Agency offices and Child Care Centers.

  Expenses $106,208 · Grants $6,908

• Trauma Informed Training for Child Care Professionals. A pilot program completed in collaboration with the Region A Partnership for Children, regional university education professionals, and school districts with NC Pre-K programs to train early education teachers on challenging social/emotional and behavioral challenges in childcare programs. The program uses a mentorship training/coaching model and focuses on children exposed to childhood trauma.

  Expenses $30,313 · Grants $20,547

• Family Support Services. Additional program support for Parents as Teachers group connections and to nearly 200 families through the Family Support Network of Region A.

  Expenses $26,980

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

• Jackson County Schools

  $417,733

  NC Pre-K Services

• Swain County Schools

  $400,480

  NC Pre-K Services

• Haywood County Schools

  $391,413

  NC Pre-K Services

• Cherokee County Schools

  $360,941

  NC Pre-K Services

• Macon County Schools

  $295,576

  NC Pre-K Services

• Macon Program for Progress

  $264,293

  NC Pre-K Services

• Clay County Schools

  $252,779

  NC Pre-K Services

• Graham County Schools

  $201,550

  NC Pre-K Services

• Cherokee Central Schools

  $197,971

  NC Pre-K Services

• Southwestern Child Development Center

  $136,812

  Smart Start Child Care Health Consultant and Subsidy Services Coordination

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

28 October 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.0

Source object

202423029349302377

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