North Carolina · Nonprofit
Boost the Boro Inc
Boost the Boro Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,500 to it, the largest being THE FORTIVE FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $107k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $261k
What Boost the Boro Inc does
Mission
Economic growth, improve quality of life
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Beast festannual festival for bladen and surrounding communities highlighting the town of bladenboro. Net income funds various projects and community initiatives.
$34,940 spent46% of program spendingDowntown spring flingannual community spring event promoting the bladenboro downtown area. 2023 event canceled due to weather.
$4,272 spent6% of program spendingCommunity improvement initiativesspecific community requests for improvement projects, repairs or updates of existing community structures.
$5,039 spent7% of program spendingOther program services
$31,726 spent42% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $75,977.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $239k to $261k (+9%).
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.
100% of Boost the Boro Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $60.
From the IRS filings of Boost the Boro Inc’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
Boost the Boro Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% 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: 2020 87% · 2021 100% · 2022 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
Boost the Boro Inc draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Boost the Boro Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Boost the Boro Inc
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 Boost the Boro Inc: 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 Boost the Boro Inc?
- Boost the Boro Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,500 to it, the largest being THE FORTIVE FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Boost the Boro Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $6,500 in grants to Boost the Boro Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Boost the Boro Inc?
- THE FORTIVE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Boost the Boro Inc 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), 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