North Carolina · Nonprofit
HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL
HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $163,816 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($60,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $285k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $164k
- Net assets
- $73k
What Hillsborough Arts Council does
Mission
To advocate for local artists and provide access to inclusive community arts programming in hillsborough, nc.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community events: artwalk, last fridays, solstice lantern walk, community centered events showcase local artists
$134,565 spent$30,660 earned by the program58% of program spendingPerformances & exhibitions: crafts fair, cultural committeeprovide small venues for community members to experience performing and fine arts, first hand
$53,380 spent23% of program spendingArts education and awareness: poetry, handmade market and parade, workshopsgive local citizens the opportunity to create and participate in arts centered activities
$43,301 spent$7,877 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $231,246.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $63k to $98k (+55%).
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: 2017 37% · 2019 39% · 2020 35% · 2021 37% · 2022 28% · 2023 39% · 2024 40% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $25k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL’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
HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 53% · 2019 36% · 2020 71% · 2021 77% · 2022 40% · 2023 40% — 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
84% of HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL'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. $60k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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.
Against its field
HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL has grown faster than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL
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
87% 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 HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL: 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 HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL?
- HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $163,816 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($60,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $163,816 in grants to HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HILLSBOROUGH ARTS COUNCIL 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 7 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