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OUTER BANKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

EIN 58-1516313 MANTEO, NC

Revenue 2023
$2,945,091
Expenses 2023
$2,710,917

Program services were 87.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T31Z
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 2299

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

THE OUTER BANKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION HELPS MEET LOCAL NEEDS ACROSS DARE COUNTY AND THE ENTIRE OUTER BANKS. WE MANAGE CHARITABLE FUNDS FOR INDIVIDUALS AND AGENCIES, AND WE TARGET GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS TOWARD OUR COMMUNITYS MOST PRESSING NEEDS AND PROMISING OPPORTUNITIES.

  • OUTER BANKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION IS THE PHILANTHROPIC ENGINE OF THE LOCAL CHARITABLE SECTOR, PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR THE OUTER BANKS' MOST EXCITING PROJECTS AND URGENT NEEDS. THEY ASSIST LOCAL STUDENTS OF ALL AGES IN ACHIEVING THEIR EDUCATIONAL GOALS. THE FOUNDATION IS UNIQUE AS THE ONLY FUNDING SOURCE THAT REACHES ALL TYPES OF CHARITIES ACROSS THE OUTER BANKS. THEY SUPPORT PROGRAMS IN THE ARTS, EDUCATION, PUBLIC SAFETY, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DISASTER RELIEF, HISTORIC PRESERVATION, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND ANIMAL SERVICES. IN 2023, THE FOUNDATION AWARDED MORE THAN 1,250,000 IN GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS TO DOZENS OF NONPROFITS AND 81 LOCAL STUDENTS. TO DATE, THE FOUNDATION HAS INVESTED OVER 14 MILLION INTO CHARITABLE CAUSES ON THE OUTER BANKS IN ITS FORTY-ONE YEAR HISTORY.

    Expenses $2,363,923 · Grants $2,151,769

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • CHRISTOPHER SAWIN

    PRESIDENT &

    Total calculated
    $106,870
    From this org
    $93,231
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,639
    Hours/week
    50

  • JEAN-LOUISE DIXON

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • JASON WAUGHTEL

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • PAT REGAN

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • LYNDA HESTER

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • CATH BALDWIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID CLAWSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JEFF DOWDY

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • FRANK HESTER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TESS JUDGE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROBIN MANN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RAY MEIGGS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CLAUDIA NEAL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NOEL PRESTON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • BETTY SELBY

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DAVID SHUFFLEBARGER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RONNIE SLOAN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SARAH SPENCER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RUTH TOTH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,945,091
    Expenses
    $2,710,917
    Contributions
    $2,108,074
    Grants paid
    $2,151,769
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,158,972
    Expenses
    $1,966,252
    Contributions
    $1,356,741
    Grants paid
    $1,433,455

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,038,637
    Expenses
    $1,318,558
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,924,367

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,638,965
    Expenses
    $2,126,208
    Assets (EOY)
    $22,335,559

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,220,100
    Expenses
    $1,542,501
    Assets (EOY)
    $20,635,527

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,392,253
    Expenses
    $890,346
    Assets (EOY)
    $16,261,199

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

  • SEE ATTACHED

    $1,122,878

    2023

  • SEE ATTACHED

    $790,657

    2022

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.