CHILDREN FIRST COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1200

Street

PO BOX 16695

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 · 2024

• Overall Organizational Highlights: -We served over 2,660 children with our direct services and academic supports through our AmeriCorps program. This is a conservative estimate, as many were served immediately following Hurricane Helene without a consistent tracking system, so those figures were not captured. -Last year, 4 community members volunteered their time at our Learning Centers, and the Family Resource Center, totaling 631 hours.

  Expenses $1,464,919 · Grants $7,524 · Revenue $87,998

• Communities In Schools (CIS) Student Support Specialists: Children First/(CIS) student support specialist programs at Claxton, Johnston, Hall Fletcher, Oakley, Estes, and Emma Elementary Schools and Eblen Intermediate School empower students to stay in school and achieve in life. Operations at these sites is based one a school-based student support site plan. Plans include services that address identified school-wide needs or build and reinforce student assets. It also identifies services for specific students at high risk of eventually dropping out of school. 97% of our case-managed students qualified for the Free & Reduced Lunch program. We had 229 case managed students and served 2,215 students with Tier I (school-wide) services.

• Children First/Communities In Schools (CIS) Learning Centers are safe haven afterschool programs that provide academic assistance, healthy snacks and enrichment activities for up to 43 at-risk elementary aged children. 28 students also participated in a 6-week summer camp that offers a variety of enrichment and education opportunities, and 7 students participated in tennis at Eblen. The Learning Centers strengthen the connection between student, school, parent and community, which is a key element in helping an at-risk child succeed in school and prepare for life. We had a 95% promotion rate for our 229 case-managed students. . Other notable accomplishments for FY 2025: *Project POWER AmeriCorps members served 243 youths and recruited 375 volunteers who provided 2,667 hours of community service. *The Family Resource Centers served 193 individuals with food boxes, 60 individuals received emergency financial assistance,202 students received backpacks and school supplies, and 332 children received gifts during Holiday Giving. *Childern First/(CIS) supports advocacy by serving as the fiscal sponsor of the Western North Carolina Early Childhood Coalition (WNC ECC). This collaboration allows CF/CIS to continue supporting advocacy that impacts children and families.

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,994,757

  Expenses

  $1,815,250

  Contributions

  $1,900,810

  Grants paid

  $7,524

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,498,455

  Expenses

  $1,722,709

  Contributions

  $1,445,447

  Grants paid

  $16,342

• 2022

  Revenue

  $991,838

  Expenses

  $1,520,720

  Contributions

  $950,143

  Grants paid

  $33,537

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

  $1,793,855

  Expenses

  $1,234,234

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,584,775

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,109,653

  Expenses

  $1,138,684

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,135,746

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,194,482

  Expenses

  $1,016,405

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,140,535

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,240,848

  Expenses

  $1,064,248

  Assets (EOY)

  $852,698

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,051,295

  Expenses

  $1,109,987

  Assets (EOY)

  $677,722

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,203,809

  Expenses

  $1,220,526

  Assets (EOY)

  $777,431

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,127,153

  Expenses

  $1,167,548

  Assets (EOY)

  $780,976

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,268,242

  Expenses

  $1,177,781

  Assets (EOY)

  $816,112

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $1,038,130

  Assets (EOY)

  $591,972

• 2009 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $987,913

  Assets (EOY)

  $510,872

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

• Children and Family Resource Ctr Henderson Cty

  $6,000

  2022 · Education Program support

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC

  $111,395

  2023 · ASSISTING PEOPLE IN NEED

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC

  $58,705

  2024 · IMPROVING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

• WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION

  $51,063

  2024 · IMPACT/ WELL-BEING GRANTS

• WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2023 · IMPACT GRANT - ACTIVE

• WNC BRIDGE FOUNDATION

  $50,000

  2022 · IMPACT GRANT - ACTIVE

• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC

  $44,081

  2022 · ASSISTING PEOPLE IN NEED

• NC CHILD

  $25,000

  2022 · SUPPORT

• NC CHILD

  $23,000

  2023 · SUPPORT

• NC CHILD

  $20,000

  2024 · COLLABORATE WITH NC CHILD TO LEVERAGE THE STRENGTH OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY'S INCREDIBLE COMMUNITY OF CHILD ADVOCATES AND SERVICE PROVIDERS AND CONNECT THEM TO A GROWING STATEWIDE NETWORK FOR CHILDREN.

• WINSTON-SALEM FOUNDATION

  $12,500

  2023 · 1 grant(s) for varying purposes

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

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