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North Carolina Humanities Council

The NORTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES COUNCIL is dedicated to promoting free public programs in the humanities across north carolina.

$546k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$2.6MEducation$280kCommunity Improvement$79kCivil Rights$41kHousing & Shelter$39kEnvironment$38kInternational$36kPublic Benefit$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 20 grants below total $373,949 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $546,379 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $172,430 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOMEN ADVANCE$20,000
JOHN C CAMPBELL FOLK SCHOOL$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$20,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$20,000
BOOKMARKS$20,000
ALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION$20,000
COMIT DE FIESTAS PATRIAS Y TRADICIONES DE CHARLOTTE$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$20,000
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY$20,000
THE INDUSTRIAL COMMONS$20,000
JANE AUSTEN COLLABORATIVE$20,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$20,000
NEIGHBORHOOD DATA WORKS$20,000
GASTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART & HISTORY$19,996
UNMANAGEABLE$19,800
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MACON COUNTY HERITAGE CENTER-COWEE SCHOOL ARTS AND HERITAGE CENTER: $10k → 12%HALIWA-SAPONI INDIAN TRIBE: $20k → 20%HALIWA-SAPONI INDIAN TRIBE: $12k → 20%OUR DAILY BREAD FOUNDATION: $12k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 19% of North Carolina Humanities Council’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 78% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

North Carolina Humanities Councillessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 11% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 46 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
98

Total granted

$1.7M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+34%

Still filing today

78%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $269k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $77k · revenue +22%
  • Immersion for Spanish Language Acq
    3× · 2020–2023 · $54k · revenue +21%
  • VH
    VETERANS HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CAROLINAS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +68% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • PN
    PBS NORTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE NC STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +71%
  • IH
    INVISIBLE HISTORIESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue ×24

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Upcountry History Museum

The upcountry history museum connects people, history and culture.

Arts & Culture
2
The North Caroliniana Society

To promote interest in, knowledge of, and appreciation for north carolina history and culture through historical preservation, library service, and perpetuation of state literary and cultural heritage.

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3
North Carolina History Theater

The North Carolina History Theater, Inc., is a qualified 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to expressing and exploring the unique history of North Carolina through the performing arts, and celebrating the rich diversity of our…

Arts & Culture
4
Institute of Classical Architecture and Art North Carolina Chapter

The ICAA advances the appreciation of the priciples of traditional architecture and it's allied arts by engaging educators, students and enthusiats in NC.

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5
North Carolina Museum of History Associates Inc

To build public awareness of and provide funding to the nc museum of history.

Arts & Culture
6
Attleboro Area Industrial Museum Inc
Arts & Culture
7
Concord Antiquarian Society Dba Concord Museum

The concord museum educates visitors of all ages about the history of concord and its continuing influence on american political, literary and cultural life. the museum's nationally significant collection serves as a catalyst for changing…

Arts & Culture
8
Muse Winston-Salem

To connect, enrich, and enlarge the community through history, storytelling, an informed, balanced perspective that leads to acceptance, understanding, and belonging.

Philanthropy
9
Fort Mill History Museum

To preserve Fort Mill's heritage for the benefit of present and future generations.

Arts & Culture
10
Bechtler Collection Preservation Foundation
Arts & Culture
11
Granville County Historical Society

Promote knowledge about history of granville county

Arts & Culture
12
Eastern Carolina Village & Farm Museum 1840-1940

Preserve and interpret architectural and agricultural life in pitt county and eastern north carolina from 1840 - 1940

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nc Transportation Museum Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Charlotte Film Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersLgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity FoundationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Elementary Literacy TutoringAffordable Housing Developm…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Immigrant Worker SupportOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Jewish Community Organizati…Public Library OperationsLocal History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr16%18%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr14%22%20–35yr12%26%35–55yr12%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%15%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr14%21%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr12%22%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/156
the rest of the field
15%
7,955/53,024

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

119 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 119 of the 158 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
116/119
Grantees still filing
82/119
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC — $76,508 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INCImmersion for Spanish Language Acq — $53,909 · Arts & CultureVETERANS HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CAROLINAS — $49,600 · Arts & CultureWestern North Carolina Historical Association Inc — $47,665 · Arts & Culture+62 more — $1,172,405 · Arts & Culture+62 moreUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $99,857 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE — $98,495 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTEAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY — $59,628 · OtherCounty of Johnston — $55,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES — $48,238 · Other+60 more — $965,030 · Other+60 moreALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION — $62,250 · EducationALLIANCE F…LATINX EDUCATION CENTER — $20,000 · EducationLATINX EDU…DUKE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVE…FONTANA REGIONAL LIBRARY INC — $20,000 · EducationFONTANA RE…BOOKMARKS INC — $20,000 · EducationBOOKMARKS …GUILFORD COLLEGE — $20,000 · EducationGUILFORD C…Davidson College — $20,000 · EducationDavidson C…JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationJOHNSON C …WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationWAKE FORES…LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationLENOIR-RHY…Elon University — $19,700 · EducationElon Unive…STUDENT ACTION WITH FARMWORKERS — $18,915 · EducationSTUDENT AC…MAGNOLIA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $13,500 · Education+2 more — $17,017 · Education+2 moreNEIGHBORHOOD DATA WORKS — $20,000 · Community ImprovementFREEDOM ORG — $19,750 · Community ImprovementBoston-Thurmond Innovation Network — $16,815 · Community ImprovementRURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $5,000 · Community ImprovementHALIWA SAPONI TRIBE INC — $32,251 · Human ServicesOur Daily Bread Foundation — $12,220 · Human ServicesMacon County Heritage Center — $10,000 · Human ServicesDIAMANTE INC — $5,570 · Human ServicesASSOCIACION DE MEXICANOS EN CAROLINA DEL NORT — $36,720 · InternationalInternational House of Metrolina Inc — $10,000 · InternationalOUTER BANKS CONSERVATIONISTS INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentSouthern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy — $20,000 · Environment
Arts & Culture$1,400,087Other$1,326,248Education$311,382Community Improvement$61,565Human Services$60,041International$46,720Environment$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC — $76,508 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION — $62,250 over 3y, 28% of budgetImmersion for Spanish Language Acq — $53,909 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetVETERANS HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CAROLINAS — $49,600 over 2y, 40% of budgetWestern North Carolina Historical Association Inc — $47,665 over 3y, 11% of budgetLOUISE WELLS CAMERON ART MUSEUM — $46,050 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR CULTURAL PRESERVATION INC — $45,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY FOUNDATION INC — $44,500 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCharlotte Museum of History — $40,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCORE SOUND WATERFOWL MUSEUM — $40,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetUNMANAGEABLE — $39,800 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetASSOCIACION DE MEXICANOS EN CAROLINA DEL NORT — $36,720 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetDestination Cleveland County — $35,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSt Josephs Historic Foundation — $32,800 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHALIWA SAPONI TRIBE INC — $32,251 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF DURHAM — $30,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetRockingham County Historical Society Museum and Archives — $30,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetSURRY ARTS COUNCIL — $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBEAUFORT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL — $28,467 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetGREENSBORO HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC — $27,600 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetCALDWELL HERITAGE MUSEUMINC — $27,585 over 2y, 27% of budgetMOUNT AIRY MUSEUM OF REGIONAL HISTORY INC — $27,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetHidden Voices — $25,810 over 2y, 18% of budgetBLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM AND ARTS CENTER INC — $25,800 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetKORNER'S FOLLY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetPAULI MURRAY CENTER FOR HISTORY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — $23,650 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $23,369 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPreservation Greensboro Inc — $23,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetNATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER — $21,946 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DATA WORKS — $20,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NC STATE MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINVISIBLE HISTORIES — $20,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetROWAN MUSEUM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetLATINX EDUCATION CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBeaufort Historical Association Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF ASHE COUNTY HISTORY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE ALBEMARLE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetHISTORIC CABARRUS ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CITY OF RALEIGH MUSEUM — $20,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetHistoric Jamestown Society Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetJohn C Campbell Folk School Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFONTANA REGIONAL LIBRARY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDUNN AREA HISTORY MUSEUM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetJANE AUSTEN COLLABORATIVE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetBOOKMARKS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGUILFORD COLLEGE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDENTON HISTORICAL COMMISSION — $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

North Carolina Commun…The Cannon Foundation…Co Tua Marion S Covin…Foundation for the Ca…Triangle Community Fo…Z Smith Reynolds Foun…The Community Foundat…The Winston-Salem Fou…Arts & Science Counci…Duke Energy FoundationThe Golden Leaf IncDuke University
North Carolina Community FoundationNC50.8× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Co Tua Marion S Covington Fdn · Foundation for the Carolinas · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Arts & Science Council Charlotte/Mecklenburg Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Golden Leaf Inc · Duke University

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization North Carolina Humanities Council funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 158 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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