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NORTH CAROLINA PICKLE FESTIVAL INC

NORTH CAROLINA PICKLE FESTIVAL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $23,500 to it, the largest being Southern Bank Foundation ($23,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$38k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$24k
Net assets
$33k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 62%
01What it does

What North Carolina Pickle Festival Inc does

Mission

To promote agribusiness and agriculture in southern wayne county and northern duplin county through the presentation of the annual n.c. Pickle festival.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To promote agribusiness and agriculture in southern wayne county and northern duplin county through the presentation of the annual n.c. Pickle festival.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($28k) Net assets 100 ($28k)2020 Revenue -2 ($-513) Net assets 98 ($28k)2021 Revenue -42 ($-11750) Net assets 56 ($16k)2022 Revenue 78 ($22k) Net assets 134 ($38k)2023 Revenue 260 ($73k) Expenses 100 ($58k) Net assets 187 ($53k)2024 Revenue 247 ($70k) Expenses 110 ($64k) Net assets 207 ($58k)2025 Revenue 136 ($38k) Expenses 110 ($64k) Net assets 116 ($33k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (136)Expenses (110)Net assets (116)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $58k to $33k (−44%).

$28k
$28k
$16k
$38k
$53k
$58k
$33k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assets

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of NORTH CAROLINA PICKLE FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$28k
’19
−$513
’20
−$12k
’21
$22k
’22
$15k
’23
$6k
’24
−$26k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $14k → $5k.

Funder
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of NORTH CAROLINA PICKLE FESTIVAL INC’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

100% of NORTH CAROLINA PICKLE FESTIVAL INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

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

’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NORTH CAROLINA PICKLE FESTIVAL INC has grown faster than half of the 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−67% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

34%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds NORTH CAROLINA PICKLE FESTIVAL INC?
NORTH CAROLINA PICKLE FESTIVAL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $23,500 to it, the largest being Southern Bank Foundation ($23,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NORTH CAROLINA PICKLE FESTIVAL INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $23,500 in grants to NORTH CAROLINA PICKLE FESTIVAL INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NORTH CAROLINA PICKLE FESTIVAL INC?
Southern Bank Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $23,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORTH CAROLINA PICKLE FESTIVAL INC 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 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