North Carolina · Nonprofit
UPPER LAUREL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC
UPPER LAUREL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,439 to it, the largest being WNC Communities ($38,339). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $186k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $77k
- Net assets
- $201k
What Upper Laurel Community Organization Inc does
Mission
ULCO operates Ebbs Chapel Community Center whose mission is to serve youth, families, and seniors with programs, activities, and essential services in the Upper Laurel Community in Mars Hill, NC.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Nutrition Services - 247 meals served to underprivileged seniors in this rural community. Additionally, 390 meals were delivered to seniors unable to drive. Food services and deliveries are provided by volunteers. Meals are provided by Madison County Department of Community Services.
$0 spent0% of program spendingFood Pantry - 311 people received food, cleaning supplies, diapers and other baby supplies, pet food, and more. This includes emergency aid during Tropical Storm Helene. Food is donated by local donors and weekly by the MANNA Food Bank out of Asheville, NC. All program operations are staffed by volunteers. No monies from grants were specifically for food pantry.
$0 spent0% of program spendingExercise Room/Yoga Classes - 39 guest visits during 2024 in the newly renovated fitness room. Exercise equipment pieces were donated, and reflected in the assets on Part I, Line 19. Exercise equipment, after depreciation, is valued at $1,000. No grants were received for this specific program. Volunteers staff this weekly program.
$0 spent0% of program spendingPerforming Arts Center - approximately 400 visitors in 20255 The PAC had limited use in 2024. No specific grants were provided for this program area. All operations were staffed by volunteers.
$1,573 spentof which $16,660 as grants53% of program spendingBlackberry Festival is an award winning outdoor festival in July of each year. This year we counted 1200 individual vendors, visitors, and volunteers throughout the day. There are no grants to sponsor this specific program. Grants have been received for building renovations and general operating support. This festival is staffed entirely by volunteers.
$779 spent26% of program spendingWood Heat Ministry provides fire wood for low-income seniors and people with disabilities. In 2025, we provided wood for heat for 350 families.
$600 spent20% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $2,952.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $74k to $201k (+174%).
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.
97% of UPPER LAUREL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 UPPER LAUREL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC’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
UPPER LAUREL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 UPPER LAUREL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC.
“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 UPPER LAUREL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k 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
UPPER LAUREL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like UPPER LAUREL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC
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
100%
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 UPPER LAUREL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC: 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 UPPER LAUREL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC?
- UPPER LAUREL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,439 to it, the largest being WNC Communities ($38,339). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPPER LAUREL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $77,439 in grants to UPPER LAUREL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of UPPER LAUREL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC?
- WNC Communities is the largest funder on record, with $38,339 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPPER LAUREL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC 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 2024–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing