North Carolina · Nonprofit
BREATHE INK
BREATHE INK (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,000 to it, the largest being THE POETRY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $97k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $35k
What Breathe Ink does
Mission
BreatheINK is a charitable arts education and youth poetry nonprofit organization.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
BreatheINK provided poetry workshops for immigrant and first-generation citizen youth.
$20,250 spentof which $20,250 as grants35% of program spendingBreatheINK organized a youth poetry festival in Charlotte NC for students from North and South Carolina.
$19,947 spentof which $20,000 as grants34% of program spendingBreatheINK provided poetry workshops and a performance for youth associated with the Mecklenburg County Office of Violence Prevention.
$18,400 spentof which $18,400 as grants31% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $58,597.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6k to $41k (+611%).
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 BREATHE INK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Terry Creech
Executive Director
Board chair
Stephanie Creech
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BREATHE INK’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
BREATHE INK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% 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
“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
BREATHE INK draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
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
BREATHE INK has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like BREATHE INK
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 BREATHE INK: 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 BREATHE INK?
- BREATHE INK (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,000 to it, the largest being THE POETRY FOUNDATION ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BREATHE INK have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $37,000 in grants to BREATHE INK.
- Who is the largest funder of BREATHE INK?
- THE POETRY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BREATHE INK 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