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NC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION
NC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,634 to it, the largest being CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($197,134). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.2M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $342k
- Net assets
- $82M
What Nc History Center on the Civil War Emancipation & Reconstruction Foundation does
Mission
The foundation is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, to promote the north carolina civil war history center, an instrumentality of the state of north carolina, in its efforts to promote the educational goals and educating the public on the history of the civil war in north carolina, and make distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code, as directed by north carolina civil war history center.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Gather, vet, edit, ghostwrite and/or transcribe, and publish submissions to add to the "100 story" project, communicating with submitters and networking with those with the potential to be future submitters; raise awareness of the initiative by giving presentations, interacting with the members of 250+ genealogical groups/historical societies, and working information tables at various locations in the state; use social media platforms to engage with individuals through posts, stories, and pictures; process, label, shelve, and maintain an inventory of all the donated books received; work with universities to develop internships that will fulfill program requirements; coordinate intern/volunteer schedules; train interns on how to vet story submissions and transcribe/read primary documents; assign tasks to individuals with their capabilities and interests in mind; discuss their progress with their professors as needed.
$1,573,588 spentof which $928,050 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,573,588.
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 2023 to 2024, from $41M to $78M (+90%).
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: 2018 67% · 2019 24% · 2020 96% · 2021 27% · 2022 100% · 2023 6% · 2024 84% · 2025 69%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of NC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION’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. 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.
Board chair
Mr John M Mac Healy
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $62k → $78k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 NC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION’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
NC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
64% 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 NC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 80% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
64% of NC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION'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 $125k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $217k 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
NC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION?
- NC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,634 to it, the largest being CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($197,134). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $341,634 in grants to NC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION?
- CUMBERLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $197,134 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NC HISTORY CENTER ON THE CIVIL WAR EMANCIPATION & RECONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION 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.
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 7 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