North Carolina · Nonprofit
HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC
HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,555 to it, the largest being UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC ($158,455). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $346k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $182k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Hickory Landmarks Society Inc does
Mission
The mission of the hickory landmarks society is to serve the hickory region by leading in the protection of historically or architecturally significant landmarks.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Maintenance of and education about historical landmarks.
$94,252 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $94,252.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2025 to 2026, from $972k to $1.2M (+20%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Leslie Keller
Executive director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $18k → $25k.
From the IRS filings of HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY 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
HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
87% 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 HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 96% · 2021 84% · 2022 95% · 2023 84% — 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
96% of HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY 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 HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY 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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC?
- HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,555 to it, the largest being UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC ($158,455). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $181,555 in grants to HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC?
- UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $158,455 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing