North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE EDWARD C SMITH CIVIC CENTER OF LEXI
THE EDWARD C SMITH CIVIC CENTER OF LEXI (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $288,975 to it, the largest being EDDIE AND JO ALLISON SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($160,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $288k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $289k
- Net assets
- $554k
What The Edward C Smith Civic Center of Lexi does
Mission
The mission of the edward c. Smith civic center is to offer and support activities that enrich community, culture and the arts.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Offer events to foster cultural diversity and the arts.
$60,287 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $60,287.
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 2020 to 2021, from $411k to $583k (+42%).
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 19% · 2018 30% · 2019 28% · 2020 36% · 2021 24% · 2023 39% · 2024 39% · 2025 53% · 2026 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE EDWARD C SMITH CIVIC CENTER OF LEXI’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Suzie Zimmerman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $112k → $6k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 EDWARD C SMITH CIVIC CENTER OF LEXI’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
THE EDWARD C SMITH CIVIC CENTER OF LEXI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% 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
45% 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 EDWARD C SMITH CIVIC CENTER OF LEXI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 87% · 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 THE EDWARD C SMITH CIVIC CENTER OF LEXI'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. $49k 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
THE EDWARD C SMITH CIVIC CENTER OF LEXI holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 47 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 47 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like THE EDWARD C SMITH CIVIC CENTER OF LEXI
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
26% 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 THE EDWARD C SMITH CIVIC CENTER OF LEXI: 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 EDWARD C SMITH CIVIC CENTER OF LEXI?
- THE EDWARD C SMITH CIVIC CENTER OF LEXI (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $288,975 to it, the largest being EDDIE AND JO ALLISON SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($160,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE EDWARD C SMITH CIVIC CENTER OF LEXI have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $288,975 in grants to THE EDWARD C SMITH CIVIC CENTER OF LEXI, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE EDWARD C SMITH CIVIC CENTER OF LEXI?
- EDDIE AND JO ALLISON SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE EDWARD C SMITH CIVIC CENTER OF LEXI 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing