North Carolina · Nonprofit
Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County Inc
Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $884,044 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($476,550). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $884k
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County Inc does
Mission
To conserve Asheville and Buncombe Countys heritage and sense of place through preservation and promotion of the regions historic resources. We are working to keep Asheville a unique and desirable city by retaining the character of our community in five key ways: -Preservation Grants to support preservation, education and designation projects. -Preservation Easements and Advocacy to protect endangered properties. -Technical Support for owners of historic properties. -Hosting the Griffin Awards to recognize projects that have utilized a preservation ethic. -Preservation Education Programs to inform the community about our shared history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Preservation Grants: The Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County (PSABC) funds deserving initiatives in three categories: 1. BRICKS-AND-MORTAR Rehabilitation, restoration, and repair of structures that are 50 years of age or older. 2. PUBLIC EDUCATION Development of educational materials and programs that advance knowledge of our shared history. 3. PLANNING, SURVEY, AND DESIGNATION Planning and design for building rehabilitation and restoration projects, historic resource surveys, and local or national designations.
$616,541 spentof which $287,730 as grants$15,505 earned by the program100% of program spendingGriffin Awards: Our annual preservation awards program highlights the work of our community in projects that work to save historic places. Award categories include (1) rehabilitation, (2) adaptive reuse, (3) education & publication, (4) restoration, and (5) new in-fill construction, among others.
Historic Property Redevelopment: Fundamentally, historic preservation includes the practice of real property transaction. Using easements, options to purchase, protective covenants and preservation easements, PSABC permanently protects a number of properties each year.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $616,541.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $879k to $1.5M (+72%).
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: 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Jessie Landl
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $50k → $16k.
7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 Society of Asheville & Buncombe County 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
Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
43% 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 Society of Asheville & Buncombe County Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 58% · 2021 62% · 2022 73% · 2023 62% — 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 Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
96% of Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County 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. $370k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County 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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County Inc?
- Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $884,044 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($476,550). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County Inc have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $884,044 in grants to Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County Inc?
- DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $476,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 13 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