North Carolina · Nonprofit
Martin County Historical Society
Martin County Historical Society (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $43,700 to it, the largest being Francis M Barnes Charitable Trust Jennifer Thigpen ($43,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $16k
What Martin County Historical Society does
Mission
The purpose of this organization shall be to encourage preservation of historic sites, items and facts relative to Martin County.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The purpose of the Martin County Historical Society is preserving our past for our future generations. The corporation's major function will be to discover and collect any material which may help to establish or illustrate the history of the area: its exploration, settlement, development, and activities in peace and in war. Some of Martin County Historical Society programs include promoting historical properties such as Asa Biggs House, publishing books on the historic properties in Martin County, genealogy and heritage book publications, and establishing a historical website of Martin County history including the distribution of DVDs.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $9k to $24k (+158%).
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.
100% of Martin County Historical Society’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $4k.
From the IRS filings of Martin County Historical Society’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Martin County Historical Society'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. 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
Martin County Historical Society's revenue fell 31% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Martin County Historical Society
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.
Public support
100%
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 Martin County Historical Society: 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 Martin County Historical Society?
- Martin County Historical Society (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $43,700 to it, the largest being Francis M Barnes Charitable Trust Jennifer Thigpen ($43,700). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Martin County Historical Society have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $43,700 in grants to Martin County Historical Society, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Martin County Historical Society?
- Francis M Barnes Charitable Trust Jennifer Thigpen is the largest funder on record, with $43,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Martin County Historical Society 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 1 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