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Carolina Chamber Music Festival Inc

Carolina Chamber Music Festival Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,700 to it, the largest being CRAVEN ARTS COUNCIL AND GALLERY INC ($15,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$55k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$41k
Net assets
$13k
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What Carolina Chamber Music Festival Inc does

Mission

The mission of the Coastal Carolina Chamber Music Festival CCMF continues to be to promote the benefits of classical music remove barriers that can exist between classical musicians their audiences. Through diverse programming, virtuoso public performances, and both sustaining and new community outreach events, CCMF makes classical music accessible to an audience of diverse identities and abilities. CCMF promotes classical music as a way to strengthen and bring together various sectors of the community and to facilitate an exchange between artists from other areas of the country and residents of eastern North Carolina. With the goal of providing additional opportunities for all audiences and artists to be partners in live musical experiences and self-exploration, CCMF annually presents varied community engagement educational events serving seniors, youth, and adults with disabilities. Online visits and content enhance in person events.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Community and Educational Outreach Events. See Schedule O

    $16,202 spentof which $4,500 as grants
    30% of program spending
  2. Public Concert Series. See Schedule O

    $37,806 spentof which $3,000 as grants
    70% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $54,008.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($5k) Expenses 100 ($13k) Net assets 100 ($7k)2021 Revenue 100 ($5k) Expenses 77 ($10k) Net assets 18 ($1k)2022 Revenue 870 ($43k) Expenses 215 ($29k) Net assets 236 ($16k)2023 Revenue 811 ($40k) Expenses 371 ($50k) Net assets 92 ($6k)2024 Revenue 1139 ($57k) Expenses 378 ($51k) Net assets 182 ($12k)2025 Revenue 1095 ($55k) Expenses 401 ($54k) Net assets 192 ($13k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (1095)Expenses (401)Net assets (192)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1k to $16k (+1239%).

$7k
$1k
$16k
$6k
$12k
$13k
202020212022202320242025
Total assets

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

75% of Carolina Chamber Music Festival Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$8k
’20
−$5k
’21
$14k
’22
−$10k
’23
$6k
’24
$651
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $13k.

From the IRS filings of Carolina Chamber Music Festival 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

Carolina Chamber Music Festival Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

39% 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 Carolina Chamber Music Festival Inc.

39%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 56% · 2019 56% · 2022 100% · 2023 62% — 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

100% of Carolina Chamber Music Festival Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
North Carolina out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Carolina Chamber Music Festival Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)61% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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In North Carolina

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05Profile & governance

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Carolina Chamber Music Festival Inc?
Carolina Chamber Music Festival Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,700 to it, the largest being CRAVEN ARTS COUNCIL AND GALLERY INC ($15,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Carolina Chamber Music Festival Inc have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $40,700 in grants to Carolina Chamber Music Festival Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Carolina Chamber Music Festival Inc?
CRAVEN ARTS COUNCIL AND GALLERY INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Carolina Chamber Music Festival 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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