North Carolina · Nonprofit
NORTH CAROLINA BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL
NORTH CAROLINA BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being ROBERT AND MERCEDES EICHHOLZ FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $229k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $63k
What North Carolina Blueberry Festival does
Mission
To advance the general education and the promotion of blueberries and tourism. All necessary means of promotion shall be provided.particular attention and emphasis shall be given to the tourism,economic,civic,commercial,cultural,industrial and educational interests of the area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Weekend blueberry festival organized & run. It includes educational and local vendor booths featuring handmade arts & crafts, local growers and local businesses. The festival includes a blueberry recipe contest, entertainment, childrens activities and a 5k run. Proceeds are used to give academic scholarships to high school seniors from blueberry grower counties (5 county region) by essay contest. Contests are judged by an independent committee. Also money is given to local civic organizations and 501(c)(3) corporations to help people in our counties.
$35,712 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $35,712.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $122k to $94k (−23%).
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.
94% of NORTH CAROLINA BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 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
Crystal Batts
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of NORTH CAROLINA BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL’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
NORTH CAROLINA BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.
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
NORTH CAROLINA BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTH CAROLINA BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL
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
15% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 NORTH CAROLINA BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL: 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 NORTH CAROLINA BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL?
- NORTH CAROLINA BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being ROBERT AND MERCEDES EICHHOLZ FOUNDATION ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH CAROLINA BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to NORTH CAROLINA BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH CAROLINA BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL?
- ROBERT AND MERCEDES EICHHOLZ FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH CAROLINA BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL 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 2019–2025), 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