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North Carolina Freedom Park

North Carolina Freedom Park (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,163,767 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,900,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$21k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$3.2M
Net assets
$243k
5/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 81%
01What it does

What North Carolina Freedom Park does

Mission

The mission of the North Carolina Freedom Park is to build a monument to honor the African American experience and struggle for freedom in NC.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The mission of the North Carolina Freedom Park is to build a monument to honor the African American experience and struggle for freedom in NC.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($71k) Expenses 100 ($18k) Net assets 100 ($170k)2018 Revenue 356 ($252k) Expenses 267 ($49k) Net assets 219 ($373k)2019 Revenue 561 ($397k) Expenses 151 ($28k) Net assets 436 ($742k)2020 Revenue 3988 ($2.8M) Expenses 195 ($36k) Net assets 2072 ($3.5M)2021 Revenue 2302 ($1.6M) Expenses 298 ($55k) Net assets 2996 ($5.1M)2022 Revenue 3116 ($2.2M) Expenses 376 ($69k) Net assets 4250 ($7.2M)2023 Revenue 66 ($47k) Expenses 38445 ($7.0M) Net assets 137 ($233k)2024 Revenue 29 ($21k) Expenses 55 ($10k) Net assets 143 ($243k)
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Revenue (29)Expenses (55)Net assets (143)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $7.3M to $233k (−97%).

$172k
$395k
$751k
$3.5M
$5.2M
$7.3M
$233k
$243k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of North Carolina Freedom Park’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$52k
’17
$203k
’18
$369k
’19
$2.8M
’20
$1.6M
’21
$2.1M
’22
−$7.0M
’23
$11k
’24
0.4
months of
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.

201820192020202120222023
Listed141214171717
Joined·+3+2+4+0+0
No longer listed·50100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50k → $1.4M.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 North Carolina Freedom Park’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 Freedom Park leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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

60%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 42% · 2020 36% · 2021 84% · 2022 57% — 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

0% of North Carolina Freedom Park's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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 FY2022, 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

North Carolina Freedom Park draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 4 states in all.

NY
MA
VA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $229k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

North Carolina Freedom Park runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin51% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−16% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like North Carolina Freedom Park

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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 Freedom Park: 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 Freedom Park?
North Carolina Freedom Park (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,163,767 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,900,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does North Carolina Freedom Park have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $3,163,767 in grants to North Carolina Freedom Park, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of North Carolina Freedom Park?
THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like North Carolina Freedom Park 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 11 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