North Carolina · Nonprofit
PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC
PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,497 to it, the largest being CARLYLE ADAMS FOUNDATION ($135,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $338k
- Net assets
- $879k
What Piedmont Council of Traditional Music Inc does
Mission
To preserve, present, and promote all forms of traditional music, dance, and other folk performing arts.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
The role of pinecone is to increase the visibility of north carolina's piedmont music and musicians and to provide public programs and educational resources about the depth and breadth of cultural expression in the region. Pinecone presents more than 150 music programs annually, including concerts, festivals, participatory sessions, radio shows, film screenings, documentary projects, workshops, lecture-demonstrations, youth music programs, and other educational activities. More than 90% of pinecone's programs are offered to the general public at no cost. During the year, pinecone produced the inaugural raleigh wide open festival in partnership with the city of raleigh, a multi-day community music festival featuring live performances, educational programming, and free public events.
$871,709 spent$526,620 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $871,709.
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 2021 to 2022, from $638k to $1.0M (+60%).
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: 2017 24% · 2018 33% · 2019 4% · 2020 40% · 2021 45% · 2022 54% · 2023 33% · 2024 32% · 2025 21% · 2026 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 10 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
David Brower
Executive director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $16k → $82k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC 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.
How concentrated its funding is
PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 51% · 2022 100% · 2023 31% — 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
50% of PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
97% of PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC'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. $75k 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
PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 36 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 36 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Organizations like PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC: 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 PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC?
- PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,497 to it, the largest being CARLYLE ADAMS FOUNDATION ($135,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $338,497 in grants to PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC?
- CARLYLE ADAMS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 9 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