North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS
THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS (North Carolina) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $953,235 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($453,430). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $805k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $953k
- Net assets
- $480k
What The International Friendship Center of Highlands does
Mission
The international friendship center provides the highlands area with a link for individuals and families to local resources for improving the quality of their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provides the area with a link for individuals and families to local resources for improving the quality of their lives.
$398,783 spent63% of program spendingFood bank to provice food for needy families
$238,277 spent37% of program spendingProvides the area with a link for individuals and families to local resources for improving the quality of their lives.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $637,060.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $336k to $492k (+47%).
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.
91% of THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS’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. 3 of the last 6 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 10 funders, grant income rose $0 → $173k.
10 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2020 41% · 2021 79% · 2022 42% · 2023 60% — 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
30% of THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
64% of THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS'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 $345k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $608k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS 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
Organizations like THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS?
- THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS (North Carolina) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $953,235 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ($453,430). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $953,235 in grants to THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC is the largest funder on record, with $453,430 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 33 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