North Carolina · Nonprofit
MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC
MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,382,537 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($4,057,681). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $9.4M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Museum of the New South Inc does
Mission
Levine Museum's mission is to connect the past to the future to realize the promises of a New South through exhibits that explore complex chapters in the region's history and programs that launch dialogue, foster empathy, and build an equitable community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
For 35 years, Levine Museum of the New South has explored the region's history through exhibitions, educational programs, and conversations that provide context around contemporary issues, tackle important questions, and encourage necessary community dialogue. Levine Museum is a civic and educational institution located in center city Charlotte offering digital experiences, exhibitions, and programming for adults, families, children, and school audiences. The Museum has earned a local, national, and international reputation for creating innovative and ground-breaking exhibitions and programs that use history to build community. Levine Museum realized the following accomplishments in fiscal year 2025 : (Continued on Schedule O)
$2,257,705 spent$52,285 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,257,705.
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 2021 to 2022, from $16M to $19M (+19%).
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: 2021 9% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
77% of MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Richard Cooper
President & CEO
Board chair
Glen Wright
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $717k → $986k.
3 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH 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
MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 69% · 2019 82% · 2020 29% · 2021 59% · 2022 58% · 2023 55% — 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
65% of MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
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
90% of MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC'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. $4.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC?
- MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,382,537 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($4,057,681). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $9,382,537 in grants to MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $4,057,681 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH 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 28 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