North Carolina · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN SANFORD INC
DOWNTOWN SANFORD INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,280 to it, the largest being THE PERKINS FOUNDATION INC ($5,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $364k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $14k
- Net assets
- $105k
What Downtown Sanford Inc does
Mission
To manage the development of downtown sanford as the primary economic, cultural, and social center of the community; to educate the community on the unique assets and historical significance of the downtown area; and to promote and stimulate the improvement of these assets.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Management of economic, cultural, and social center of growth of the community
$317,837 spentof which $353,699 as grants$11,256 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $317,837.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $54k to $97k (+79%).
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: 2020 71% · 2021 48% · 2022 71% · 2023 64% · 2024 78% · 2025 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Sharon Spence
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $4k.
From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN SANFORD 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
DOWNTOWN SANFORD 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 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 DOWNTOWN SANFORD INC'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. 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.
Organizations like DOWNTOWN SANFORD 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.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 DOWNTOWN SANFORD 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 DOWNTOWN SANFORD INC?
- DOWNTOWN SANFORD INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,280 to it, the largest being THE PERKINS FOUNDATION INC ($5,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN SANFORD INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $14,280 in grants to DOWNTOWN SANFORD INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN SANFORD INC?
- THE PERKINS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN SANFORD 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 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