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NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL
NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $452,648 to it, the largest being WEAVER FOUNDATION INC ($95,329). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Arts Council of Greensboro Inclocalportfolio match
- The Cemala Foundation Incshared funderslocal
- United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Incportfolio match
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.
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 57% · 2021 29% · 2022 33% · 2023 25% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $500 → $110k.
7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $286k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Piedmont Triad Charitable Foundation D/B/A Wyndham Championship). These are real filings, and they are not money NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL raised.
From the IRS filings of NORTH CAROLINA FOLK 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.
How concentrated its funding is
NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 71% · 2020 26% · 2021 20% · 2022 21% · 2023 41% — 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
60% of NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
82% of NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL'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. $77k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Arts Council of Greensboro Inclocalportfolio matchNC · funds 57 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Cemala Foundation Incshared funderslocalNC · backs 55 organizations that share your funders · funds 51 organizations near you
- United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Council of Fayetteville Cumberland County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carlyle Adams Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Durham Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Greater Greensboro Incshared funderslocalNC · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · funds 56 organizations near you
- Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporationshared funderslocalNC · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · funds 38 organizations near you
- Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community Health Foundationshared funderslocalNC · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 62 organizations near you
- High Point Community Foundationshared funderslocalNC · backs 18 organizations that share your funders · funds 61 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $359k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$359k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 NORTH CAROLINA FOLK 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL?
- NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $452,648 to it, the largest being WEAVER FOUNDATION INC ($95,329). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $452,648 in grants to NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH CAROLINA FOLK FESTIVAL?
- WEAVER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $95,329 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH CAROLINA FOLK 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 20funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing