North Carolina · Nonprofit
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TOPSAIL ISLAND NC
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TOPSAIL ISLAND NC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,234 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES COUNCIL ($11,415). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $362k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $12k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Historical Society of Topsail Island Nc does
Mission
The historical society of topsail island is dedicated to the collection, preservation and promotion of the history of the greater topsail island area
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Museum operations - missiles and more museum, a museum dedicated to the preservation of the history associated with the greater topsail area
$103,981 spentof which $14,000 as grants$60,425 earned by the program100% of program spendingAssembly building - preserving and improving the historic assembly building, on the national register of historic places, financially supported by rental activities
$130,764 earned by the program
The 2 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $103,981.
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 2025 to 2026, from $1.0M to $1.2M (+16%).
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 5% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 2% · 2021 9% · 2022 5% · 2025 3% · 2026 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 10 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.
Board chair
Steve Gordon
Awt chairman
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $319 → $120.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 SOCIETY OF TOPSAIL ISLAND NC’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 SOCIETY OF TOPSAIL ISLAND NC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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
99% 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 SOCIETY OF TOPSAIL ISLAND NC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 76% · 2021 98% · 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
99% of HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TOPSAIL ISLAND NC'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. $744 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.
Organizations like HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TOPSAIL ISLAND NC
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
40% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TOPSAIL ISLAND NC: 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 SOCIETY OF TOPSAIL ISLAND NC?
- HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TOPSAIL ISLAND NC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,234 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES COUNCIL ($11,415). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TOPSAIL ISLAND NC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,234 in grants to HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TOPSAIL ISLAND NC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TOPSAIL ISLAND NC?
- NORTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $11,415 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TOPSAIL ISLAND NC 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 2017–2026), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing