North Carolina · Nonprofit
Laurel Community Center Org Inc
Laurel Community Center Org Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,746 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($126,698). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $180k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $207k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Laurel Community Center Org Inc does
Mission
(continued from page 1) and Wi-Fi, outdoors learning and an environmental studies classroom, a Welcome Center focusing on the cultural and natural heritage of the Laurel region, and will foster the exchange of information and gathering of resources through meetings, lectures, workshops, and event spaces in an effort to serve and encourage the residents of the Laurel Community as well as greater Madison County.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Rental Programs We have two types of rentals. Long term spaces are leased by the year in our old classrooms. These affordable studio spaces for local artists and entrepreneurs stay full and we have a waiting list. We also offer short term rentals for meetings and Birthday parties. These are also utilized regularly by our community.
$174,737 spentof which $2,800 as grants$47,787 earned by the program100% of program spendingEcology Studies LCC has a very heavy focus on ecology and the natural heritage of our region. Thanks to the Laurel River Room, our hands on STEM classroom, we have many programs including STREAM Team (science group for local kids), we help organize and host Aquatic Insect workshop for professionals, Kids Fishing Day and numerous outside groups including, 4-H, PAGE program, and local (public and private) schools come to LCC for ecology studies.
Hurricane Helene Relief Hub Starting October 1st, 2024, the Laurel Community Center became a resource hub as a response to Hurricane Helene that devastated WNC. Our 6,500 square foot gym and 2 - 1,000+ square foot rooms were full of supplies for our community and beyond. For two months, LCC was open 12 hour days 6 days a week distributing and receiving supplies. Over two months, we distributed more than 5,000 hot meals, many prepared by our meal site staff volunteering their time. Eighty-five volunteers contributed over 10,000 hours, serving not only our local area but also sending critical supplies to remote and urban areas alike, including Pensacola, Buladean, Swannanoa, Black Mountain, and more.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $174,737.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $2.5M to $2.6M (+6%).
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 1% · 2021 9% · 2022 7% · 2023 6% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of Laurel Community Center Org Inc’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. 2 of the last 5 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
Cheoah Landis
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $81k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 Laurel Community Center Org 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
Laurel Community Center Org Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% 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
76% 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 Laurel Community Center Org Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 62% — 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.
Where its funders are
61% of Laurel Community Center Org 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 $80k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $127k 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.
Against its field
Laurel Community Center Org Inc is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Laurel Community Center Org 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 Laurel Community Center Org Inc: 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 Laurel Community Center Org Inc?
- Laurel Community Center Org Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $206,746 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($126,698). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Laurel Community Center Org Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $206,746 in grants to Laurel Community Center Org Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Laurel Community Center Org Inc?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $126,698 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Laurel Community Center Org 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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