North Carolina · Nonprofit
APPALACHIAN BARN ALLIANCE
APPALACHIAN BARN ALLIANCE (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,766 to it, the largest being REYNOLDS FOUNDATION 186-8803582 ($29,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $8k
What Appalachian Barn Alliance does
Mission
Historical preservation and education
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Completed reconstruction of two historic barns on a heritage farmstead owned by the town of Mars Hill bringing to a total of 5 barns on the property. The ABA provides informative signs for all 5 barns explaining the history and use of these barns. This public space serves several 100 visitors each month which should increase as the farmstead is further promoted through literature local events and word-of-mouth.
$41,637 spentof which $4,800 as grants94% of program spendingHost all the Countys 4th-grade classes at the Smith Farm giving them a tour of the historic barns and explaining the importance of historic Appalachian culture in the local area. A total of 8 classes including about 200 students and staff visit the farmstead every year.
$2,262 spent5% of program spendingHosted photographic workshops by leading artists and photographers to area barns allowing them to photograph barns otherwise closed to public viewing. About 20 photographers were served over two separate weekends.
$200 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $44,099.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $56k to $8k (−86%).
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.
84% of APPALACHIAN BARN ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $6k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 APPALACHIAN BARN ALLIANCE’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
APPALACHIAN BARN ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2020 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
APPALACHIAN BARN ALLIANCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $266 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
APPALACHIAN BARN ALLIANCE has grown faster than half 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 APPALACHIAN BARN ALLIANCE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 APPALACHIAN BARN ALLIANCE: 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 APPALACHIAN BARN ALLIANCE?
- APPALACHIAN BARN ALLIANCE (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,766 to it, the largest being REYNOLDS FOUNDATION 186-8803582 ($29,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does APPALACHIAN BARN ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $53,766 in grants to APPALACHIAN BARN ALLIANCE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of APPALACHIAN BARN ALLIANCE?
- REYNOLDS FOUNDATION 186-8803582 is the largest funder on record, with $29,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like APPALACHIAN BARN ALLIANCE 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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