- Revenue 2024
- $32,449,826
- Expenses 2024
- $32,297,014
Program services were 94.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- B012
- Classification
- 2100
- Street
- 601 E 5TH ST STE 200
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).
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.
-
AMANDA NITTO
BOARD CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LIZ BUCKINGHAM
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BEN GILMAN
PAST CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KELLY KING
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JOANETTE FREEMAN
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
BRAXTON WINSTON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
ELAINE LIBERATO JENKINS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
EMILY NANNEY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KRU TRIVEDI
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LATOYA SCOTT
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LAURA MEIER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
SHIVANI MEHTA
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
AMANDA JOYNER
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
HEBA ABDELBAKY
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JAKE HOUSE
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
JARED KEATON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
LIS PORDES
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
KIMBERLY HENDERSON
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MADDIE MYERS
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
TERESSA BEAM
DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
MICHAEL L BLACKWELDER
CEO
- Total calculated
- $221,615
- From this org
- $194,349
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $27,266
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $194,349
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $13,912
- Nontaxable benefits
- $13,354
- Filer's total
- $221,615
-
CATHERINE J ETTERS
CFO
- Total calculated
- $159,123
- From this org
- $132,384
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $26,739
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $132,384
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $13,385
- Nontaxable benefits
- $13,354
- Filer's total
- $159,123
-
JENNIFER STAMP
STRATEGIC INITIATIVES DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $139,567
- From this org
- $114,598
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $24,969
- Hours/week
- 40
-
MARY-MARGARET KANTOR
CHIEF EARLY EDUCATION OFFICER
- Total calculated
- $144,822
- From this org
- $115,337
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $29,485
- Hours/week
- 40
-
SYREETA CAMPBELL
CIO
- Total calculated
- $150,233
- From this org
- $127,871
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $22,362
- Hours/week
- 40
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $127,871
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $10,869
- Nontaxable benefits
- $11,493
- Filer's total
- $150,233
The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2024
- Revenue
- $32,449,826
- Expenses
- $32,297,014
- Contributions
- $32,298,745
- Grants paid
- $24,640,176
-
2023
- Revenue
- $32,513,187
- Expenses
- $31,444,935
- Contributions
- $32,324,737
- Grants paid
- $24,170,728
-
2022
- Revenue
- $28,508,319
- Expenses
- $30,163,576
- Contributions
- $28,375,378
- Grants paid
- $23,155,544
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.
Grants made
-
$19,916,877
2024 MECK. PRE-K
-
$18,970,011
2023 MECK. PRE-K
-
$18,082,586
2022 MECK PRE-K
-
$1,318,430
2023 QUALITY EVERY DAY
-
$1,299,930
2024 QUALITY EVERY DAY
-
$1,286,930
2022 QUALITY EVERY DAY
-
$500,000
2024 NC PRE-K PROGRAM
-
$500,000
2023 NC PRE-K PROGRAM
-
$500,000
2022 NC PRE-K PROGRAM
-
$439,764
2024 CHILD HEALTH CARE CONS.
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
-
NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC
$7,628,916
2023 NC YOUNG CHILDREN
-
NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC
$7,113,751
2022 NC YOUNG CHILDREN
-
NORTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC
$7,110,629
2024 NC YOUNG CHILDREN
-
2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$134,675
2023 CHARITABLE GIFT
-
2022 GENERAL SUPPORT
-
$10,560
2022 BCNCF GRANT
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 10 September 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.