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← WAKE COUNTY SMARTSTART

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by WAKE COUNTY SMARTSTART.

Totals

Total revenue
$27,914,896
Total expenses
$27,249,271
Contributions and grants received
$27,699,186
Grants paid
$21,763,190
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$25,559,501
Management and general expenses
$1,595,909
Fundraising expenses
$93,861
Program service expenses (Part III)
$25,559,501

Program services were 93.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • GAYLE HEADEN

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $171,360
    From this org
    $155,915
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,445
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,915
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $8,479
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,966
    Filer's total
    $171,360

  • GARY CARR

    DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

    Total calculated
    $168,081
    From this org
    $151,239
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,842
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $151,239
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,554
    Nontaxable benefits
    $9,288
    Filer's total
    $168,081

  • KATHERINE WILLIAMS

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NIKIA COATES

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MATTHEW ELLINWOOD

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MATTHEW GLOVA

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANDRE ANTHONY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • VERONICA CREECH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HEATHER DRENNAN

    DIRECTOR THR FEB 2025

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SUSAN EVANS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ARIEL FORD

    DIRECTOR FR OCT 2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SHERRY HEUSER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICKEY HOLT

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NIKKI LEONARD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RONETTA PEARSALL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANTONIA PEDROZA

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STEPHANIE SHELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CHERYL STALLINGS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TONYA VENABLE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOE WHITE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • STACEY WILSON-NORMAN

    DIRECTOR THR FEB 2025

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CAROL C ORJI

    DIRECTOR OF ECI

    Total calculated
    $130,115
    From this org
    $115,142
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,973
    Hours/week
    40

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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

None.

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

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

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
13 October 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202502959349301550

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