- Revenue 2023
- $1,693,701
- Expenses 2023
- $1,652,475
Program services were 70.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- Classification
- 2000
- Street
- 320 E 9TH ST STE 414
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).
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.
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DR MIKE WAKEFORD
CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
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BRIAN KAHN
VICE CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
HANNAH DELA CRUZ ABRAMS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
MARGARET D BAUER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
KERRY D BIRD
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
NANCY FIELDS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
KATRINA BROWNLEE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
JESSICA HARDIN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
DOUGLAS JACKSON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
LORNA RICOTTA
PAST CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
LES HIGH
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
TASSE A LITTLE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
REBECCA REYES
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
DIANE ROBERTSON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
C THOMAS STEELE JR
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
CECELIA THOMPSON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
LILIANA WENDORFF
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
KATHY WHITE
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
TODD WRIGHT
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
SERGIO FERNANDEZ
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
LAURA WILLIAMS
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
RODNEY DAWSON
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
REBECCA GODWIN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
SARA HAHN
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
-
SHERRY PAULA WATKINS
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $162,752
- From this org
- $135,422
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $27,330
- Hours/week
- 35
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $135,422
- Bonus
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Deferred
- $13,408
- Nontaxable benefits
- $13,922
- Filer's total
- $162,752
The first 25 listed. 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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
-
2023
- Revenue
- $1,693,701
- Expenses
- $1,652,475
- Contributions
- $1,692,816
- Grants paid
- $546,379
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2022
- Revenue
- $1,205,530
- Expenses
- $1,435,696
- Contributions
- $1,204,758
- Grants paid
- $374,919
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.
Grants made
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2022 "FINDING COMMON GROUND" USES ARTS AND HISTORY TO FOSTER DIALOGUE AND REFLECTION ABOUT THE REALITIES OF PREJUDICE AS WELL AS THE POSSIBILITIES THAT COME FROM INTERSECTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS. WE WILL HOST TWO 3-PART INTERACTIVE SERIES ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES AND CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED GROUPS IN NC. THE SERIES WILL TAKE PLACE IN DURHAM, NC IN FALL 2023 AND IN GREENVILLE, NC IN SPRING 2024. PARTICIPANTS WILL TAKE AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT THE HISTORICAL EXPERIENCES AND PRESENT-DAY CHALLENGES OF JEWS, MUSLIMS, AND IMMIGRANTS IN NC THROUGH THE LENS OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES. EACH SESSION WILL FOSTER CULTURAL LITERACY FOR PARTICIPANTS AND THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SINCERE, INTERGROUP RELATIONSHIP-BUILDING AMONGST LEADERS AND PARTICIPANTS. PARTICIPANTS WILL HONE THEIR ABILITIES TO PRODUCTIVELY EMPATHIZE WITH PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT IDENTITIES, TO DECODE POPULAR REPRESENTATIONS OF HISTORICALLY MARGINALIZED GROUPS, AND TO CREATE ACTION PLANS TO FOSTER GREATER CONNECTION ACROSS DIFFERENCES.
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2022 SUPPORT THE CREATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ENGAGING, INCLUSIVE AND FACTUALLY ACCURATE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR GRADE 8-12 STUDENTS AND TEACHERS ON THE DOCUMENTARY FEATURE INSURRECTION 1898, WHICH TELLS THE STORY OF A COUP D'TAT IN WILMINGTON, NC, IN WHICH WHITE SUPREMACISTS OVERTHREW THE MULTI-RACIAL GOVERNMENT OF NC'S LARGEST CITY THROUGH A COORDINATED CAMPAIGN OF VIOLENCE AND INTIMIDATION THAT DESTROYED BLACK POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC POWER, IMPOSED WHITE CONTROL, AND LED TO THE DEATH OF UP TO 150 BLACK RESIDENTS. THESE RESOURCES WILL ADDRESS THESE KEY HUMANITIES NARRATIVES: CITY OF HOPE: PROGRESS AND PROMISE OF BLACK WILMINGTONIANS, 1897; WHITE SUPREMACY AND POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC POWER; DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF BLACK VOTERS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH; POWER OF WHITE-OWNED NEWSPAPERS AND THE ROLE OF THE BLACK PRESS; THE IMPACT OF RACIAL VIOLENCE ON WEALTH INEQUALITY; THE LEGACY OF RACIAL TERROR AND TRAUMA; AND HISTORY, POWER, AND CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE.
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2023 THIS GRANT SUPPORTS A DOCUMENTARY FILM ABOUT THE GROUNDBREAKING LIFE OF JAPANESE IMMIGRANT AND EARLY PHOTOGRAPHER GEORGE MASA. MASA CAME TO WESTERN NC IN 1915 AND WAS A PASSIONATE ARTIST AND ADVOCATE FOR THE CREATION OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK AND THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL.
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$20,000
2023 THIS GRANT SUPPORTS THE CREATION OF A SELF-GUIDED WALKING TOUR OF AND INFORMATIONAL SIGNAGE FOR THE JOHN C. CAMPBELL FOLK SCHOOLS CAMPUS TO BETTER CONTEXTUALIZE THE SCHOOLS HISTORICAL SITES, STUDIOS, LANDSCAPE, AND GARDEN FOR PUBLIC AUDIENCES. STARTED IN 1925, THE FOLK SCHOOL IS THE OLDEST FOLK SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY AND PLAYS A KEY PART OF PRESERVATION OF FAR-WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA HISTORY.
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2023 THIS GRANT SUPPORTS THE CREATION OF K-12 CURRICULUM ON NC HISTORY AND CULTURE DEVELOPED BY COLLABORATORS FROM UNC CHAPEL HILL AND UNC PEMBROKE. IT ALSO SUPPORTED EDUCATOR WORKSHOPS TO BRING K-12 TEACHERS TO THE MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHEAST AMERICAN INDIAN TO GET HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE WITH THE CONTENT.
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$20,000
2023 THIS GRANT SUPPORTS RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WITH DURHAM COUNTY PROPERTY DEEDS DURING THE ERA OF REDLINING. THE RESEARCH WILL CREATE AN EXHIBITION, COMMUNITY CONVERSATION SERIES, AND WORKSHOPS.
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$20,000
2023 THIS GRANT SUPPORTS AUTHOR PANELS AND TALKS AT THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY BOOKMARK'S FESTIVAL OF BOOKS AND AUTHORS, THE LARGEST ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF THE LITERARY ARTS IN NORTH CAROLINA.
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2023 THIS GRANT SUPPORTS AN EXHIBITION ON THE HISTORY OF HISPANIC PEOPLES IN NORTH CAROLINA FROM SPANISH EXPLORERS TO THE PRESENT. THE PROJECT WILL CAPTURE ORAL HISTORIES FROM THE COMMUNITY.
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$20,000
2023 THIS GRANT SUPPORTS A LECTURE SERIES WITH INDIGENOUS AUTHORS, ARTISTS, SCHOLARS, AND CHEFS. CONTENT IS INSPIRED BY THE ONGOING HERITAGE AGRICULTURE PROJECTS AT THE CATAWBA AND DAVIDSON COLLEGE FARMS.
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$20,000
2023 THIS GRANT SUPPORTS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF AN IMMERSIVE SYMPOSIUM AT TRYON PALACE IN NEW BERN, NC EXPLORING JANE AUSTEN'S 1813SENSE AND SENSIBILITYAND CONNECTIONS TO COLONIAL LIFE IN NORTH CAROLINA.
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
Grants received
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FED OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS
$200,000
2025 MELLON FOUNDATION SUBGRANT FOR GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
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FED OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS
$21,250
2025 PROGRAM SUPPORT FOR 'BY THE PEOPLE: CONVERSATIONS BEYOND 250' CIVIC DIALOGUE INITIATIVE
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$16,970
2022 UNRESTRICTED
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$16,682
2024 UNRESTRICTED
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$14,507
2023 UNRESTRICTED
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 10 September 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.