North Carolina · Nonprofit
Lincoln County Historical Association Inc
Lincoln County Historical Association Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,376 to it, the largest being TIMKEN FOUNDATION OF CANTON ($90,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $143k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $136k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Lincoln County Historical Association Inc does
Mission
To collect, preserve, and share the history, arts, and culture of the Lincoln County region to promote understanding and appreciation of the social, cultural, religious, natural and political aspects of life that have contributed to our shared heritage. Our purpose includes identifying, protecting, and interpreting that material through exhibitions, publications, educational initiatives, and programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Museum Collection & Research Library: Collections, archives, museum, and research library facility spaces, museum exhibits, related software and subscriptions and collection supplies. Research and historical books relating to the history and heritage of Lincoln County.
$21,508 spent$1,854 earned by the program47% of program spendingPrograms, Exhibition and Educational Initiatives: Events commemorating the Revolutionary War Battle of Ramseurs Mill incuding living history demonstrations, tours, and reenactment. Lecture Series with visiting historical fiction author Cornwallis Burning of the Baggage commemoration, speaker and various demonstrations. Heritage workshop with window restoration workshop and demonstration. daily life demonstrations.
$11,564 spent$1,960 earned by the program25% of program spendingProperties Preservation: Preservation of historic Brown House, Plonk Cemetery and other historic properties which includes property maintenance.
$9,130 spent$1 earned by the program20% of program spendingMembership Outreach: Bi-monthly newsletter distributed to members, educators, and local leaders. Annual member meeting and visiting historical speaker.
$3,174 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $45,376.
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 2021 to 2022, from $336k to $1.1M (+214%).
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: 2022 8% · 2023 18% · 2024 50% · 2025 5%. 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 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $24k → $24.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 Lincoln County Historical Association Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 4 of 5 funders by total. 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
Lincoln County Historical Association Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% 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
34% 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 Lincoln County Historical Association Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
Lincoln County Historical Association Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k 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.
Organizations like Lincoln County Historical Association 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 Lincoln County Historical Association 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 Lincoln County Historical Association Inc?
- Lincoln County Historical Association Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,376 to it, the largest being TIMKEN FOUNDATION OF CANTON ($90,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lincoln County Historical Association Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $136,376 in grants to Lincoln County Historical Association Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lincoln County Historical Association Inc?
- TIMKEN FOUNDATION OF CANTON is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lincoln County Historical Association 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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