North Carolina · Nonprofit
RARE BIRD
RARE BIRD (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being South Arts Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $175k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $63k
What Rare Bird does
Mission
We create and host cultural programming in our rural Appalachian community, with a focus on inclusion of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and the fostering of various traditional and contemporary arts and folk practices.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
IDD: We lead arts programming with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities at Open Hearts Arts Center, a day program for adults with IDD in Asheville, and at Rare Bird Farm, our primary host site. We also integrate our IDD work with our cultural events, featuring performers with IDD at our music festivals and facilitating collaboration between performers with and without disabilities.
$534 spent1% of program spendingMusic and folk cultural programming: We host concerts and workshops that provide a vital meeting ground for people from our rural community and people from the nearby city of Asheville. This programming sustains traditional arts and practices such as ballad singing, basket weaving, and Appalachian dance and also brings practitioners of contemporary and experimental forms into conversation with such traditions. We have about 300 attendees at each of our three annual festivals; 40-100 attendees at each of our 5-10 annual concerts; and 10-30 attendees at each of our 5-10 annual workshops.
$90,414 spent99% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $90,948.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Farrah Hoffmire
Executive Director
Board chair
Stefanie Morrill Kerckhoff
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of RARE BIRD’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
RARE BIRD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
50% 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 RARE BIRD.
“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
RARE BIRD draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
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.
Against its field
RARE BIRD runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RARE BIRD
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RARE BIRD?
- RARE BIRD (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being South Arts Inc ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RARE BIRD have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,000 in grants to RARE BIRD.
- Who is the largest funder of RARE BIRD?
- South Arts Inc is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RARE BIRD 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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