North Carolina · Nonprofit
Smart Kinston Foundation
Smart Kinston Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,515 to it, the largest being THE CANNON FOUNDATION INC ($33,254). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $98k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $200k
What Smart Kinston Foundation does
Mission
To allow the public and organizations to participate in the revitalization of certain downtown areas in order to attract certain creative workforces and cultural tourists.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
With relocation of first artists, smART Kinston has begun to see the fruits of its reparatory work. Applications continue to come in as we shape the Arts and Cultural District into the focal point of Kinston's revitalization efforts. Construction on Arts Riverwalk and neighborhood entrance has begun and will soon solidify district as a destination. Recruitment of artists continues. Promotion of project has received much local media attention, but soon will grow into regional and statewide publicity as scope of recruitment reach increases. Continued support from local businesses has broadened reach of recruitment efforts. Construction on public art entrance to neighborhood is complete and partnerships with legacy non-profits have led to proceeds sharing from local events and joint initiatives. The Arts Council, Cooperative Extension and public school system collaborating to make entrance part of school curricula. Donation from Committee of 100 shows willingness of local leaders of commerce to invest in the district, which they view as an arts-based business incubator. Community college partnership continues to provide resource for artists starting their first businesses. Continued…
$60,266 spentof which $12,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $60,266.
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 2017 to 2018, from $190k to $64k (−66%).
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.
100% of Smart Kinston Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Stephen B Hill
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $250 → $192.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Smart Kinston Foundation’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
Smart Kinston Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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 Smart Kinston Foundation's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k 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
Smart Kinston Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,376 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,376 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Smart Kinston Foundation
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Smart Kinston Foundation: 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 Smart Kinston Foundation?
- Smart Kinston Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,515 to it, the largest being THE CANNON FOUNDATION INC ($33,254). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Smart Kinston Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $39,515 in grants to Smart Kinston Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Smart Kinston Foundation?
- THE CANNON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $33,254 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Smart Kinston Foundation 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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