North Carolina · Nonprofit
BURLINGTON DOWNTOWN CORPORATION
BURLINGTON DOWNTOWN CORPORATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,674 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $151k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $169k
What Burlington Downtown Corporation does
Mission
The mission of the bdc is to create an environment for downtown redevelopment by engaging community stakeholders and partners, and to inspire investment, business development and job growth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To enhance the development of downtown burlington as the cultural,historic and economic center of the community and promote unity among all.
$70,433 spentof which $13,007 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $70,433.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $247k to $111k (−55%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 40% · 2018 53% · 2019 42% · 2020 40% · 2021 27% · 2022 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of BURLINGTON DOWNTOWN CORPORATION’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. 4 of the last 9 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
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $32.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $10k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alamance Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BURLINGTON DOWNTOWN CORPORATION raised.
From the IRS filings of BURLINGTON DOWNTOWN CORPORATION’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
BURLINGTON DOWNTOWN CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% 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: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 BURLINGTON DOWNTOWN CORPORATION's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $174 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
BURLINGTON DOWNTOWN CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BURLINGTON DOWNTOWN CORPORATION
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BURLINGTON DOWNTOWN CORPORATION: 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 BURLINGTON DOWNTOWN CORPORATION?
- BURLINGTON DOWNTOWN CORPORATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,674 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BURLINGTON DOWNTOWN CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,674 in grants to BURLINGTON DOWNTOWN CORPORATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BURLINGTON DOWNTOWN CORPORATION?
- DUKE ENERGY 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 BURLINGTON DOWNTOWN CORPORATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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