North Carolina · Nonprofit
WILSON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
WILSON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $390,324 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($196,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $390k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Wilson Community Improvement Association does
Mission
Wilson Community Improvement Association, inc.'s (wcia) mission is to provide community development and promote leadership among the residents of wilson, north carolina and surrounding counties.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing program: the housing program was created to provide affordable housing to low-income residents. This is achieved by rehabilitating existing homes and constructing new homes in the inner city, with funding provided by grants and loans from financial institutions.
$123,174 spent$111,667 earned by the program67% of program spendingMercy center: the mercy center provides office space for wcia, and additional space is rented to outside companies. The building and assets were merged as part of operations as of march 31, 2009.
$-1,447 earned by the programSenior citizen program: the senior citizen program provides services to senior citizens of wilson to aid them in various areas as needed. Included are programs for education, nutrition, clothing, sewing, bible study, and more.
$61,075 spent$2,369 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $184,249.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $2.9M to $1.5M (−50%).
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: 2017 64% · 2018 72% · 2019 32% · 2020 30% · 2021 35% · 2022 24% · 2023 55% · 2024 43% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Barbara Blackston
Executive director
Board chair
Mr Otis Weaver
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $82k → $33k.
From the IRS filings of WILSON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION’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
WILSON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
100% 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 WILSON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 100% · 2019 70% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 65% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
WILSON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like WILSON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
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
49% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Franklin-Vance-Warren-Wilson Housing of Wilson Inc Dba Gee Corbett Village · exempt
- Beacon Pointe LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WILSON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION: 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 WILSON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION?
- WILSON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $390,324 to it, the largest being LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ($196,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILSON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $390,324 in grants to WILSON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILSON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION?
- LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $196,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILSON COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION 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 2 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