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Kings Mountain Little Theatre Inc

Kings Mountain Little Theatre Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,900 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($267,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$307k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$339k
Net assets
$1.2M
8/11 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Kings Mountain Little Theatre Inc does

Mission

Presentation of theatre plays

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Presentation of theatre plays, commission and presentation of a play about the revolutionary war Battle of Kings Mountain from which the town of Kings Mountain derives its name.

    $291,449 spent$307,095 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $291,449.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($84k) Expenses 100 ($95k) Net assets 100 ($364k)2022 Revenue 379 ($317k) Expenses 156 ($149k) Net assets 146 ($532k)2023 Revenue 643 ($538k) Expenses 165 ($157k) Net assets 250 ($913k)2024 Revenue 686 ($573k) Expenses 294 ($280k) Net assets 331 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 368 ($307k) Expenses 328 ($312k) Net assets 330 ($1.2M)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (368)Expenses (328)Net assets (330)

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 $913k to $1.5M (+69%).

$445k
$604k
$913k
$1.5M
$1.7M
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 34% · 2022 2% · 2023 48% · 2024 63% · 2025 13%. 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 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$12k
’21
$168k
’22
$380k
’23
$293k
’24
−$5k
’25
4.1
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.

Chief executive

Jim Champion

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed2421212121
Joined·+3+0+2+1
No longer listed·6021
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $157k.

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 Kings Mountain Little Theatre 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

Kings Mountain Little Theatre Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

91% 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 Kings Mountain Little Theatre Inc.

79%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 77% · 2019 60% · 2020 54% · 2021 79% · 2022 49% · 2023 96% — 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.

How long its funders stay

75% of Kings Mountain Little Theatre Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

79% of Kings Mountain Little Theatre Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $71k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $268k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like Kings Mountain Little Theatre Inc

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Kings Mountain Little Theatre Inc?
Kings Mountain Little Theatre Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,900 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($267,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Kings Mountain Little Theatre Inc have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $338,900 in grants to Kings Mountain Little Theatre Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Kings Mountain Little Theatre Inc?
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $267,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Kings Mountain Little Theatre 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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