North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE HISTORIC HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSION
THE HISTORIC HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSION (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,072 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($15,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $182k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $152k
What The Historic Hillsborough Commission does
Mission
Preserve and interpret the Burwell School Historic Site; provide interpretation of 19th-century Hillsborough, NC; provide education on NC History; celebrate and promote the culture and history of Hillsborough and Orange County, NC
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Preserve and interpret the Burwell School Historic Site; provide interpretation of 19th-century Hillsborough, NC; provide education on NC History; celebrate and promote the culture and history of Hillsborough and Orange County, NC; served over 3068 visitors; Conducted 14 school and educational group tours; Held 16 community events
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 $109k to $152k (+39%).
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.
98% of THE HISTORIC HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Matt Hughes
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $6k → $6k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 HISTORIC HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSION’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 HISTORIC HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% 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
95% 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 HISTORIC HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 100% · 2022 80% — 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.
Where its funders are
60% of THE HISTORIC HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSION'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 $11k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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
THE HISTORIC HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSION runs a healthier operating margin than half 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
Government funding THE HISTORIC HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$10k
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 HISTORIC HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSION
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
99%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE HISTORIC HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSION?
- THE HISTORIC HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSION (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,072 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($15,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE HISTORIC HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $26,072 in grants to THE HISTORIC HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HISTORIC HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSION?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HISTORIC HILLSBOROUGH COMMISSION 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 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