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WAKE COUNTY SMARTSTART

EIN 56-1949415 RALEIGH, NC

Revenue 2024
$27,914,896
Expenses 2024
$27,249,271

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

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B210
Classification
2100
Street
4901 WATERS EDGE DR STE 101

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.

  • 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $27,914,896
    Expenses
    $27,249,271
    Contributions
    $27,699,186
    Grants paid
    $21,763,190
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $25,102,327
    Expenses
    $25,028,627
    Contributions
    $24,873,868
    Grants paid
    $19,563,939
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $22,907,110
    Expenses
    $22,422,941
    Contributions
    $22,833,408
    Grants paid
    $17,616,661

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

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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.