Durham, NC
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Sign In — Free (10 views/day)The Center for Inquiry-Based Learning Inc, founded in 2005, is a community nonprofit in the Youth Development sector that reported $1.0M in total revenue in fiscal year 2024. Revenue grew 17% year-over-year, indicating healthy expansion. Expenses of $923K left a modest 10% surplus.
CIBL exists to nurture the natural excitement children have doing science. Its mission is to support NC K-8 teachers by providing training and by providing the most engaging, integrated, hands-on STEM curriculum materials that promote creativity, collaboration and communication.
Classroom Kit Provision CIBL provides STEM curriculum units filled with hands-on materials that promote creativity, collaboration and critical thinking. We have several different products that...
Classroom Kit Provision CIBL provides STEM curriculum units filled with hands-on materials that promote creativity, collaboration and critical thinking. We have several different products that include 1 SCIENCE KITS - Each unit serves one teacher and up to 32 students K-5 or 125 students 6-8 for a 9-week instruction period. At the end of each instruction period, the kit is returned to CIBL for refurbishing and reuse, eliminating storage and replenishment issues for teachers. 2 STUDENT ACTIVITY PACKSSAP - These are individual student bags with STEM design challenges. Each pack serves 1 teacher/35 students. During the 2024-25 school year, CIBL provided 1,143 kits and 2,750 SAPs, serving approximately 200,000 students. 3 CUSTOM PRODUCTS AS NEEDED - CIBL supports the NC Science Festival by packing the Science Night kits. These kits are supplied to teachers throughout the state through the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center located on UNC-Chapel Hill campus. Last year CIBL provided 323 of these kits which served approximately 65,000 students.
Consulting Professional Development CIBL offers professional development to its clients at no charge as part of its mission. During the 2024-25 fiscal year, CIBL provided charitable consulting and...
Consulting Professional Development CIBL offers professional development to its clients at no charge as part of its mission. During the 2024-25 fiscal year, CIBL provided charitable consulting and professional development workshops with approximately 2,000 teachers in attendance. All of these sessions were for K-8 classroom teachers and were focused on student acitivity packs and specific science kits with a 9-week kit use. In addition to the full day professional development sessions, CIBL offered online sessions for the new Student Activity Packs SAP created during the 24-25 school year. CIBL also led sessions at Bridging the Gap and NC Science Teachers conferences. CIBL also consults with school systems at no charge about science implementation for their schools/districts. In addition, in an effort to incentivize teachers to learn more about CIBLs mission, SAPs are given out to teachers during professional development sessions or conferences in which CIBL is presenting.
Curriculum Development CIBL staff are engaged in developing curriculum to meet the NC Essential Science Standards. During the 2024-25 fiscal year CIBL developed additional Student Activity Packs SAP...
Curriculum Development CIBL staff are engaged in developing curriculum to meet the NC Essential Science Standards. During the 2024-25 fiscal year CIBL developed additional Student Activity Packs SAP which are designed to be used by students in any type of learning environment such as virtual, in-person, or hybrid. CIBL designed additional teacher resources such as teacher videos, slide decks, teacher tip documents and student activity sheets for our kits and SAPs to help teachers with the successful implementation of the kits/SAPs. These can be found on our website.
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Liquidity (40%) • Solvency (30%) • Sustainability (20%) • Efficiency (10%)
Sign In — Free (10 views/day)| 2024 | 2023 | Change | |
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| Revenue | $1,026,068 | $880,085 | +0.2% |
| Expenses | $923,233 | $853,847 | +0.1% |
| Net Income | $102,835 | $26,238 | +2.9% |
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Sign In| Name | Title | Hours/Week | Role | Reportable Comp | Other Comp | Total |
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| Todd Guentensberger | Executive Director | 035.00 |
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| Jason Painter | Chair | 002.00 |
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| Carole Stern | Vice Chair | 001.00 |
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| Claude Mack McCary | Treasurer | 001.00 |
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| Dave Smith | Secretary | 001.00 |
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| John Parker | Board Member | 001.00 |
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| Ben Owens | Board Member | 001.00 |
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| Tonya Little | Board Member | 001.00 |
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| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Net Income |
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| 2025 | $1,026,068 | $923,233 | $3,843,588 | $102,835 |
| 2024 | $880,085 | $853,847 | $3,529,228 | $26,238 |
| 2023 | $873,061 | $787,581 | $3,343,945 | $85,480 |
| 2022 | $890,826 | $704,708 | $3,047,964 | $186,118 |
| 2020 | $501,834 | $652,337 | $3,095,702 | $-150,503 |
| 2019 | $782,121 | $690,177 | $2,931,019 | $91,944 |
| 2018 | $786,554 | $604,751 | $2,846,574 | $181,803 |
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