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THE EXPLORIS SCHOOL

EIN 26-2407296 RALEIGH, NC

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Revenue 2023
$5,465,840
Expenses 2023
$5,348,423

Program services were 84.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B29
Classification
1200
Street
401 HILLSBOROUGH ST STE A

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

TO CREATE A CHALLENGING AND SUPPORTIVE LEARNING COMMUNITY THAT ENGAGES EACH STUDENT IN UNDERSTANDING AND BUILDING A CONNECTED, JUST, AND SUSTAINABLE WORLD.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE EXPLORIS SCHOOL IS A DIVERSE LEARNING COMMUNITY THAT ENGAGES STUDENTS IN A CHALLENGING, RELEVANT, RELATIONSHIP-BASED EDUCATION. THROUGH EXPERIENTIAL, PROJECT-BASED LEARNING, WE EMPOWER STUDENTS TO FOSTER A JUST AND SUSTAINABLE WORLD.

  • THE EXPLORIS SCHOOL IS A PUBLIC SCHOOL OPERATED BY A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION SERVING APPROXIMATELY 440 STUDENTS FROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH 8TH GRADE.

    Expenses $4,531,780 · Grants $23,882 · Revenue $261,324

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Steven Darroch

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Eric Grunden

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ed Buchan

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Alannah Rodriguez

    TREASURER (07/23-12/23)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • William McLamb

    TREASURER (11/23-06/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Geoff Bayo

    BOARD MEMBER (11/23-06/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mark Townley

    BOARD MEMBER (07/23-02/24)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ryan Boyce

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dana Deaton

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stacey Carothers

    BOARD MEMBER/PTO REPRESENTATIVE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tasha Void

    BOARD MEMBER/STAFF REPRESENTATIVE

    Total calculated
    $58,260
    From this org
    $52,086
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,174
    Hours/week
    40
  • Daniel Hencher

    BOARD MEMBER/STAFF REPRESENTATIVE

    Total calculated
    $63,894
    From this org
    $55,550
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,344
    Hours/week
    40
  • Josh Corbat

    HEAD OF SCHOOL

    Total calculated
    $89,730
    From this org
    $80,396
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,334
    Hours/week
    40
  • Deborah Brown

    DIRECTOR OF MIDDLE GRADES

    Total calculated
    $102,634
    From this org
    $96,408
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,226
    Hours/week
    40
  • Ethan Burton

    DIRECTOR OF ELEMENTARY GRA

    Total calculated
    $76,762
    From this org
    $67,285
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $9,477
    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, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,465,840
    Expenses
    $5,348,423
    Contributions
    $5,199,600
    Grants paid
    $23,882
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,364,788
    Expenses
    $4,934,055
    Contributions
    $5,087,660
    Grants paid
    $20,541

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,914,316
    Expenses
    $5,061,792
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,315,846
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,523,904
    Expenses
    $4,268,908
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,172,223
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,618,184
    Expenses
    $4,048,549
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,699,286
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,294,640
    Expenses
    $4,264,887
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,066,653
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,727,646
    Expenses
    $4,096,557
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,039,128
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,802,365
    Expenses
    $3,575,902
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,482,360
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,721,859
    Expenses
    $3,327,390
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,396,383
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,787,513
    Expenses
    $1,673,491
    Assets (EOY)
    $671,755
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,607,409
    Assets (EOY)
    $568,608
  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,659,401
    Assets (EOY)
    $459,045

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.