North Carolina · Nonprofit
NARRATIVE ARTS
NARRATIVE ARTS (North Carolina) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $832,905 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($205,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $682k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $833k
- Net assets
- $449k
What Narrative Arts does
Mission
Narrative Arts builds community power through storytelling, journalism, dialogue, and cultural organizing. Through multimedia reporting, public engagement projects, artist collaborations, youth media initiatives, and fiscal sponsorship services, the organization helps communities document their experiences, strengthen civic participation, preserve cultural memory, and advance social change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Narrative Arts produced community-centered journalism, podcasts, and storytelling initiatives that elevated underrepresented voices across North Carolina. Through Shoresides, the organization reported on issues including public health, housing, climate resilience, workforce development, and community history. Narrative Arts also facilitated story circles, interviews, and multimedia storytelling projects that documented local experiences and strengthened civic participation.
$551,845 spent$695,443 earned by the program100% of program spendingNarrative Arts engaged youth, artists, educators, and community members through media literacy activities, storytelling programs, public dialogue initiatives, and community-based cultural projects. These efforts supported leadership development, creative expression, cultural preservation, and public participation while creating opportunities for residents to share stories and strengthen community connections
Narrative Arts partnered with nonprofit organizations, artists, educators, journalists, and community leaders to strengthen storytelling, communications, and public engagement capacity. Through workshops, trainings, technical assistance, collaborative projects, and strategic partnerships, the organization helped participants develop narrative skills, document community experiences, amplify local voices, and build capacity for civic participation, community problem-solving, and social change.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $551,845.
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 $258k to $434k (+68%).
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 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 5% · 2023 5% · 2024 4% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of NARRATIVE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Nick Szuberla
Executive director
Board chair
Paul Wright
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $54k → $106k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 NARRATIVE ARTS’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
NARRATIVE ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
100% 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 NARRATIVE ARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 100% · 2019 79% · 2020 61% · 2021 55% · 2022 69% · 2023 47% — 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.
How long its funders stay
10% of NARRATIVE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 24% 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
NARRATIVE ARTS draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $388k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
NARRATIVE ARTS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NARRATIVE ARTS
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 NARRATIVE ARTS: 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 NARRATIVE ARTS?
- NARRATIVE ARTS (North Carolina) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $832,905 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($205,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NARRATIVE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $832,905 in grants to NARRATIVE ARTS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NARRATIVE ARTS?
- NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $205,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NARRATIVE ARTS 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 21 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