North Carolina · Nonprofit
VETERANS HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CAROLINAS
VETERANS HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CAROLINAS (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,300 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES COUNCIL ($49,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $80k
- Net assets
- $304k
What Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas does
Mission
The purpose is to honor veterans, educate the community about the history and sacrifices of our military veterans, and preserve important historic military artifacts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Honor veterans from WWI through the War on Terror through Wall of Honor plaques of past and present veterans. Sponsor Quilts of Valor ceremonies. Weekly coffee and conversation meetings for veterans only. Lectures, free of charge to the public. Special guided tours when requested. Number served -- more than 10,000 visitors annually. Offered Coffee and Conversation -- a veterans' conversational monthly meeting to bond and discuss their service with other veterans in a safe environment.
$5,605 spentof which $4,620 as grants33% of program spendingEducate children and adults about our nation's military history and veterans' contributions. Provided specialized tours for groups of school children and college students. Provide educational interactive videos in each of our 7 galleries, instructing visitors on the history of each of our nation's conflicts, how they began and ended, and the sacrifices of Americans at home and at war through videos, music, photos, and stories of local veterans from 1917 through the global war on terror. Produced an educational film and took in into schools and other veteran organizations. More than 10,000 visitors annually.
$5,604 spentof which $5,000 as grants33% of program spendingPreserve important historic artifacts; honor veterans locally on 4th of July, Veterans Day, Memorial Day, and other special events such as birthdays and special recognition events. Preservation of artifacts in a vignette of an American Post Office in Europe during WwII, featuring a 1943 Willys Jeep and 1944 Harley Davidson motorcycle, relics from that era, flags, letters and other authentic artifacts which created a compelling "moment in time" for visitors. Added new mannequins to exhibits, acquired artifacts, and provided benches for museum visitors.
$5,604 spent33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,813.
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 2023 to 2024, from $200k to $267k (+34%).
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.
89% of VETERANS HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CAROLINAS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $9k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 VETERANS HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CAROLINAS’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
VETERANS HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CAROLINAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 VETERANS HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CAROLINAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 95% · 2022 74% · 2023 71% — 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
84% of VETERANS HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CAROLINAS'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. $5k 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
VETERANS HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CAROLINAS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like VETERANS HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CAROLINAS
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
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VETERANS HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CAROLINAS?
- VETERANS HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CAROLINAS (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,300 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES COUNCIL ($49,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VETERANS HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CAROLINAS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $80,300 in grants to VETERANS HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CAROLINAS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VETERANS HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CAROLINAS?
- NORTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $49,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VETERANS HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE CAROLINAS 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 5 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