North Carolina · Nonprofit
HISTORIC CARSON HOUSE
HISTORIC CARSON HOUSE (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,109 to it, the largest being CO TUA MARION S COVINGTON FDN ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $711k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Historic Carson House does
Mission
To restore, preserve and maintain the former home of john h carson located at 1805 hwy 70w, marion, nc, for the benefit of the people of mcdowell county, the state of north carolina, and the united states of america
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To repair and restore the former home of john h carson. To maintain the historical site, to operate said homeplace as a museum for literature of various kinds and nature, period furniture, household accessories, and other such articles that protray the life, habits, activities, and ideas of early settlers of mcdowell county. To preserve and hold intact matters and things of historic interest and value.
$167,355 spent$711,342 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $167,355.
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 2024 to 2025, from $626k to $1.2M (+87%).
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 48% · 2021 47% · 2022 40% · 2023 17% · 2024 11% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Teresa Shadoin
Executive director
Board chair
Charles Abernathy
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $23.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 HISTORIC CARSON HOUSE’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
HISTORIC CARSON HOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
43% 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 HISTORIC CARSON HOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
HISTORIC CARSON HOUSE draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 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 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.
Organizations like HISTORIC CARSON HOUSE
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
100% 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 HISTORIC CARSON HOUSE: 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 HISTORIC CARSON HOUSE?
- HISTORIC CARSON HOUSE (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,109 to it, the largest being CO TUA MARION S COVINGTON FDN ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISTORIC CARSON HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $35,109 in grants to HISTORIC CARSON HOUSE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC CARSON HOUSE?
- CO TUA MARION S COVINGTON FDN is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC CARSON HOUSE 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 4 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