North Carolina · Nonprofit
HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF HILLSBOROUGH AND ORANGE COUNTY
HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF HILLSBOROUGH AND ORANGE COUNTY (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,251 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($39,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $152k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $84k
- Net assets
- $105k
What Historical Foundation of Hillsborough and Orange County does
Mission
To enlighten and engage our community and visitors from around the world by preserving and interpreting the history of Hillsborough and Orange County, North Carolina.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Welcomed 2,925 on-site visitors into the museum to view exhibits pertaining to Orange County History, including 3 special exhibits over the course of the year. Special exhibits include "Working for a Living: A History of Trades in Orange County," "SCORE! Youth Sports in Orange County History," plus a guest exhibit celebrating 100 years of the Hillsborough Garden Club. Hosted 26 programs and events, including lectures, exhibit openings, tastings, and other educational offerings which saw a total of 1,074 attendees. Facilitated 13 K-12 field trips and classroom visits serving a total of 592 students.
$140,872 spentof which $144,944 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $140,872.
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 2021 to 2022, from $160k to $126k (−21%).
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.
75% of HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF HILLSBOROUGH AND ORANGE COUNTY’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. 6 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Gregg Phillips
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $10k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF HILLSBOROUGH AND ORANGE COUNTY’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
HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF HILLSBOROUGH AND ORANGE COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% 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
61% 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 HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF HILLSBOROUGH AND ORANGE COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 64% · 2022 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 HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF HILLSBOROUGH AND ORANGE COUNTY's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF HILLSBOROUGH AND ORANGE COUNTY 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 HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF HILLSBOROUGH AND ORANGE COUNTY
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.
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 HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF HILLSBOROUGH AND ORANGE COUNTY: 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 HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF HILLSBOROUGH AND ORANGE COUNTY?
- HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF HILLSBOROUGH AND ORANGE COUNTY (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,251 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($39,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF HILLSBOROUGH AND ORANGE COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $84,251 in grants to HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF HILLSBOROUGH AND ORANGE COUNTY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF HILLSBOROUGH AND ORANGE COUNTY?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $39,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORICAL FOUNDATION OF HILLSBOROUGH AND ORANGE COUNTY 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