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JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE INC

JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,295 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($16,510). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$177k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$51k
Net assets
$1.7M
7/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What Joel Lane Museum House Inc does

Mission

To provide educational tours of restored historial house

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Docents provide educational tours of restored house and gardens to school children and the general public. Corporation preserves and maintains site and collections.

    $110,363 spent
    65% of program spending
  2. Docents provide educational tours of restored house and gardens to school children and the general public. The corporation preserves and maintains the site and collections.

    $60,384 spent
    35% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2026 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $170,747.

02The 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 ($131k) Expenses 100 ($131k) Net assets 100 ($622k)2018 Revenue 115 ($150k) Expenses 93 ($121k) Net assets 102 ($637k)2019 Revenue 105 ($137k) Expenses 114 ($149k) Net assets 101 ($630k)2020 Revenue 117 ($153k) Expenses 144 ($188k) Net assets 106 ($657k)2021 Revenue 154 ($202k) Expenses 105 ($138k) Net assets 129 ($802k)2022 Revenue 137 ($179k) Expenses 96 ($125k) Net assets 128 ($793k)2023 Revenue 122 ($159k) Expenses 105 ($137k) Net assets 138 ($859k)2024 Revenue 527 ($690k) Expenses 127 ($166k) Net assets 237 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 151 ($198k) Expenses 165 ($216k) Net assets 245 ($1.5M)2026 Revenue 135 ($177k) Expenses 144 ($188k) Net assets 268 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (144)Net assets (268)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $861k to $1.5M (+72%).

$623k
$638k
$632k
$672k
$804k
$795k
$861k
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

77% of JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$252
’17
$29k
’18
−$12k
’19
−$35k
’20
$64k
’21
$54k
’22
$22k
’23
$524k
’24
−$17k
’25
−$12k
’26
4.7
months of
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.

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Listed14161716161616161215
Joined·+7+4+2+4+4+5+0+1+4
No longer listed·533445051
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $1k → $10k.

1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE 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

JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

32% 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 JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE INC.

32%
largest funder
65%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 56% · 2022 33% · 2023 54% — 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

75% of JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

74% of JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

VA
NC
AL
TX

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. $17k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 630 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 8%Fundraising 2%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

93%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

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Questions and answers

Who funds JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE INC?
JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,295 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($16,510). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $51,295 in grants to JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE INC?
NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,510 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JOEL LANE MUSEUM HOUSE 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.

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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 12 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