North Carolina · Nonprofit
CULTURE MILL INC
CULTURE MILL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $711,000 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($600,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CULTURE MILL INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- National Performance Network Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Mid Atlantic Arts Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Alamance Community & Health Foundationlocal
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.
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: 2021 86% · 2022 57% · 2023 26% · 2024 5% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of CULTURE MILL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $30k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 CULTURE MILL 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
CULTURE MILL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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% · 2021 50% · 2022 32% · 2023 33% — diversifying over time.
“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
CULTURE MILL INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Performance Network Incshared fundersportfolio matchLA · backs 51 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mid Atlantic Arts Incshared fundersportfolio matchMD · backs 92 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Alamance Community & Health FoundationlocalNC · funds 52 organizations near you
- Cec Artslink Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jerome Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Map Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wilhelm Family Foundation Co Cascade Wilhelmportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sustainable Arts Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Creative Capital Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Network of Ensemble Theaters Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Emma a Sheafer Charitable Tr Xxxxx7006portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rdk Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding CULTURE MILL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $205k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$205k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CULTURE MILL INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Where the money goes
33% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 CULTURE MILL 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CULTURE MILL INC?
- CULTURE MILL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $711,000 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($600,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CULTURE MILL INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $711,000 in grants to CULTURE MILL INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CULTURE MILL INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CULTURE MILL 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.
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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing