North Carolina · Nonprofit
The Bascom Corporation
The Bascom Corporation (North Carolina) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,015,600 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,123,260). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.8M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $5.0M
- Net assets
- $14M
What The Bascom Corporation does
Mission
The Bascom creates visual art experiences that inspire and empower individuals and communities through seeing, thinking and doing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through engaging the artistic imagination, we build human capacity and resilience in the people of our region and infuse the creative economy of Western North Carolina with opportunities for community members, visitors, and artists alike. We serve the public at large by offering 9-12 exhibitions annually, free of charge, and fee-based art classes and studio experiences throughout the year. We support artists by offering professional opportunities for residencies, exhibitions, teaching, curatorships, and retail sales. We serve youth in our community by partnering with other local nonprofits and schools to provide art-infused STEM and literacy education, and we offer on-site classes and arts-based summer camps. We also provide school teachers with in-service professional development opportunities.
$1,461,171 spentof which $40,390 as grants$564,737 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe Bascoms Public Programs serve 3,000 participants of all ages living in Macon and Jackson counties. Activities include free art exhibitions and adjoining programming, artist residencies, in-class and out-of-school-time STEAM and art activities, professional development opportunities for local educators, workshops, camps, and sales opportunities for local artists.
2025 Achievements: **Provided 10 high-quality, free-admission exhibits to 20,000 visitors **Reached 3,600 participants through our 30 free outreach programs **Improved workshop access by providing $33,000 in scholarships **Offered 4 Artist Residencies for project and exhibition development. **Offered over 150 classes and workshops on campus for youth and adults **Offered 40 Teaching Opportunities for artists to share their knowledge. **Supported 300 artists through our exhibition and retail programs
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,461,171.
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 $12M to $14M (+22%).
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: 2021 1% · 2022 12% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of The Bascom Corporation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Ann Wrobleski
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $378k → $490k.
22 of 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 The Bascom Corporation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 funders by total. 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
The Bascom Corporation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
63% 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 The Bascom Corporation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 56% · 2019 54% · 2020 25% · 2021 25% · 2022 32% · 2023 20% — 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
38% of The Bascom Corporation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
62% of The Bascom Corporation'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 $1.9M that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 15 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
The Bascom Corporation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding The Bascom Corporation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13k on record.
- TRUST FUND$13k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like The Bascom Corporation
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Bascom Corporation: 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 The Bascom Corporation?
- The Bascom Corporation (North Carolina) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,015,600 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,123,260). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Bascom Corporation have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $5,015,600 in grants to The Bascom Corporation, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Bascom Corporation?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,123,260 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Bascom Corporation 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 83 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing