North Carolina · Nonprofit
PRIDE OF KINSTON INC
PRIDE OF KINSTON INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,318 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $-256305
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $955k
What Pride of Kinston Inc does
Mission
To promote the downtown area of kinston, north carolina.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide professional consultations for business renovations; maintain business self-help library; arrange seminars for downtown businesses; encourage downtown development.
$268,202 spent$62,582 earned by the program74% of program spendingEncourage property owners to renovate building facades for uniform appearance.
$54,721 spent15% of program spendingProvide assistance in promoting the downtown area by beautifying the area and participating in seasonal events.
$41,762 spent11% of program spendingProvide professional consultations for business renovations; maintain business self-help library; arrange seminars for downtown businesses; encourage downtown development.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $364,685.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.7M to $956k (−43%).
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 145% · 2018 28% · 2019 47% · 2020 3% · 2021 43% · 2022 31% · 2023 53% · 2024 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
-43% of PRIDE OF KINSTON INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Mike Chastain
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $83.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 PRIDE OF KINSTON 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
PRIDE OF KINSTON INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 83% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of PRIDE OF KINSTON 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. $318 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.
Against its field
PRIDE OF KINSTON INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PRIDE OF KINSTON 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 PRIDE OF KINSTON 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 PRIDE OF KINSTON INC?
- PRIDE OF KINSTON INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,318 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRIDE OF KINSTON INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $26,318 in grants to PRIDE OF KINSTON INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRIDE OF KINSTON INC?
- DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRIDE OF KINSTON 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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