North Carolina · Nonprofit
AFRICAN AMERICAN QUILT GUILD OF GASTON COUNTY
AFRICAN AMERICAN QUILT GUILD OF GASTON COUNTY (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,871,781 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($1,864,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What African American Quilt Guild of Gaston County does
Mission
The mission is to encourage the love of quilting within the Guild and in the community by sharing the joy and art of quilting for others namely the sick and shut-in, the homeless and those in need, and also to other non-profit organizations. The Guild supplies quilts to the homeless and nursing homes in Gaston and surrounding areas
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Quilt making for the homeless the Guild was able to provide quilts and Hygiene bags for the homeless shelter and battered women of Gaston reaching 68 people. Assisted with Beautify Gaston providing insight and for County Park that will recognize the underground railroad quilt blocks Completed the Purchase of our permanent meeting building.
$67,331 spent100% of program spendingEducational presentation and display of Quilts for Black History Month Presentation and display for Health Net Gaston.
$0 spent0% of program spendingQuilting Educational Programs for Gaston Public Library, Epworth United Methodist Church.
$0 spent0% of program spendingThe group is assisting Beautify Gaston with a park that will showcase quilt blocks that represent the underground railroad these blocks will be created with metal to create an awning with an educational message.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $67,331.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.8M to $1.8M (+3%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
18% of AFRICAN AMERICAN QUILT GUILD OF GASTON COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AFRICAN AMERICAN QUILT GUILD OF GASTON COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AFRICAN AMERICAN QUILT GUILD OF GASTON COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AFRICAN AMERICAN QUILT GUILD OF GASTON COUNTY.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of AFRICAN AMERICAN QUILT GUILD OF GASTON COUNTY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AFRICAN AMERICAN QUILT GUILD OF GASTON COUNTY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like AFRICAN AMERICAN QUILT GUILD OF GASTON COUNTY
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In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFRICAN AMERICAN QUILT GUILD OF GASTON COUNTY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN QUILT GUILD OF GASTON COUNTY?
- AFRICAN AMERICAN QUILT GUILD OF GASTON COUNTY (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,871,781 to it, the largest being Boston Foundation Inc ($1,864,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AFRICAN AMERICAN QUILT GUILD OF GASTON COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,871,781 in grants to AFRICAN AMERICAN QUILT GUILD OF GASTON COUNTY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN AMERICAN QUILT GUILD OF GASTON COUNTY?
- Boston Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,864,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN AMERICAN QUILT GUILD OF GASTON COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing