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THE FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM AT SOUTHPORT
THE FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM AT SOUTHPORT (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,732 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($127,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $151k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $190k
- Net assets
- $948k
What The Friends of the North Carolina Maritime Museum at Southport does
Mission
The primary mission of the organization is to provide support for the north caroline maritime museum at southport, a state owned and operated maritime museum. The friends oforganization provides resources to house the museum and to fund educational programs for visitors to learn the history and impact of maritime to the area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Providing support to the north carolina maritime museum at southport, a state owned and operated maritime museum. Support includes obtaining facilities to house the museum due to budget restraints of the state. Facilities were leased from the city of southport under a long-term lease and renovations in the amount of 591,139 enabled the museum to relocate and continue to preserve the maritime history and educate visitors. Support also includes educational programs and exhibit rehabilation.
$84,285 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $84,285.
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 2023 to 2024, from $894k to $1.2M (+30%).
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: 2019 38% · 2021 2% · 2022 0% · 2024 72% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of THE FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM AT SOUTHPORT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $50k.
6 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM AT SOUTHPORT’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 FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM AT SOUTHPORT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM AT SOUTHPORT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 100% · 2021 77% · 2022 99% · 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of THE FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM AT SOUTHPORT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
92% of THE FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM AT SOUTHPORT'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 $16k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $174k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM AT SOUTHPORT 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 THE FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM AT SOUTHPORT
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM AT SOUTHPORT?
- THE FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM AT SOUTHPORT (North Carolina) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,732 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($127,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM AT SOUTHPORT have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $189,732 in grants to THE FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM AT SOUTHPORT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM AT SOUTHPORT?
- RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $127,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FRIENDS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA MARITIME MUSEUM AT SOUTHPORT 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 8 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