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PRESERVATION CHAPEL HILL

PRESERVATION CHAPEL HILL (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,475 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,475). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$116k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$24k
Net assets
$1.1M
0/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Preservation Chapel Hill does

Mission

Preservation Chapel Hill is dedicated to protecting the character and heritage of the town of chapel hill, and the surrounding commuinty, through the preservation and conservation of its historic buildings and neighborhoods.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Preservation Chapel Hill's (pch) approach to achieve its mission is three-fold: preserve, advocate, education. Pch advocates for preservation initiatives by encouraging projects that balance the need for development and growth with the desire to retain our historic resources. We work with partners in economic development, heritage tourism, public education, and local government to ensure a voice for historic preservation is present in the decision-making process. Pch educates the public and its partners about what historic preservation is and why it matters.

    $256,393 spent$8,741 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $256,393.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($174k) Expenses 100 ($89k) Net assets 100 ($800k)2019 Revenue 62 ($109k) Expenses 127 ($113k) Net assets 104 ($830k)2020 Revenue 60 ($105k) Expenses 131 ($116k) Net assets 102 ($817k)2021 Revenue 54 ($94k) Expenses 95 ($84k) Net assets 103 ($827k)2022 Revenue 55 ($95k) Expenses 137 ($122k) Net assets 100 ($799k)2023 Revenue 109 ($191k) Expenses 161 ($143k) Net assets 106 ($847k)2024 Revenue 228 ($397k) Expenses 170 ($151k) Net assets 153 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 67 ($116k) Expenses 337 ($299k) Net assets 137 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (67)Expenses (337)Net assets (137)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $848k to $1.2M (+45%).

$808k
$831k
$817k
$828k
$800k
$848k
$1.2M
$1.1M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$85k
’17
−$4k
’19
−$12k
’20
$9k
’21
−$26k
’22
$48k
’23
$246k
’24
−$183k
’25
5.2
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.

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Listed99121212121111
Joined··+7+2+1+1+0+0
No longer listed··421110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $14k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 PRESERVATION CHAPEL HILL’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

PRESERVATION CHAPEL HILL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

88% 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 PRESERVATION CHAPEL HILL.

31%
largest funder
88%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2023 52% — 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.

Where its funders are

59% of PRESERVATION CHAPEL HILL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 3 states.

NC
DC
TX

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

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’18
’19
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like PRESERVATION CHAPEL HILL

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.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 11%Fundraising 3%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

58%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRESERVATION CHAPEL HILL: 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 PRESERVATION CHAPEL HILL?
PRESERVATION CHAPEL HILL (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,475 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,475). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PRESERVATION CHAPEL HILL have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $24,475 in grants to PRESERVATION CHAPEL HILL.
Who is the largest funder of PRESERVATION CHAPEL HILL?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,475 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PRESERVATION CHAPEL HILL 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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