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HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC

HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,821,444 to it, the largest being GEORGE FOUNDATION INC ($650,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$889k
Revenue FY2025
24
Funders on record
$1.8M
Grants received
$5.6M
Net assets
15/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%

Against its field

HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($602k) Net assets 100 ($3.2M)2018 Revenue 50 ($716k) Expenses 98 ($591k) Net assets 103 ($3.3M)2019 Revenue 61 ($876k) Expenses 109 ($655k) Net assets 109 ($3.5M)2020 Revenue 54 ($772k) Expenses 113 ($677k) Net assets 107 ($3.4M)2021 Revenue 66 ($951k) Expenses 102 ($616k) Net assets 141 ($4.5M)2022 Revenue 68 ($986k) Expenses 117 ($706k) Net assets 132 ($4.2M)2023 Revenue 61 ($882k) Expenses 128 ($769k) Net assets 146 ($4.7M)2024 Revenue 56 ($814k) Expenses 138 ($832k) Net assets 164 ($5.2M)2025 Revenue 62 ($889k) Expenses 151 ($912k) Net assets 175 ($5.6M)
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Revenue (62)Expenses (151)Net assets (175)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 12% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 14% · 2022 8% · 2023 3% · 2024 5% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

54% of HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$841k
17
$125k
18
$220k
19
$95k
20
$335k
21
$279k
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$113k
23
$19k
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$22k
25
2.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $59k → $208k.

6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)23% 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 HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART 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 MUSEUM OF ART INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

38% 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 MUSEUM OF ART INC.

36%
largest funder
62%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 67% · 2019 36% · 2020 34% · 2021 28% · 2022 29% · 2023 24%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.

How long its funders stay

73% of HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

90% of HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

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SC

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

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $410k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 24 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Organizations like HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART 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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

58% of spending goes to programs.

Program 58%Management 23%Fundraising 19%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

78%

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 HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART 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 HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC?
HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,821,444 to it, the largest being GEORGE FOUNDATION INC ($650,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,821,444 in grants to HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC?
GEORGE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART 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 24funders 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