POLK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC DAF sponsor

2025 · Form 990 · revenue $8.2M · expenses $4.3M · assets $76.8M

EIN

51-0168751

Address

255 S TRADE ST, TRYON, NC 28782-3707

Website

WWW.POLKCCF.ORG

NTEE code

T31Z

Exempt type

501(c)(3): charitable, religious, educational, scientific or literary (corporation)

Ruling date

October 1975 (when the IRS recognized its exemption)

IRS status

Exempt (unconditional) (IRS Business Master File) IRS data ↗

Tax-deductible donations

Yes: listed in IRS Publication 78 (public charity) Pub 78 ↗

Foundation status

Public charity supported by the public (170(b)(1)(a)(vi))

Donor-advised funds

Sponsor: its returns say it maintains donor-advised funds (latest tax year 2025). Figures by year

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Mission

TO ADMINISTER FUNDS ENTRUSTED TO SUPPORT CHARITABLE, CULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL AND PUBLICLY BENEFICIAL ACTIVITIES IN THE COMMUNITY CENTERED IN AND AROUND POLK COUNTY, N.C. BOTH BY DIRECTLY EXPENDING SUMS FOR SUCH PURPOSES AND IN COOPERATION WITH INSTITUTIONS QUALIFIED TO CARRY OUT THESE OBJECTIVES MOST EFFICIENTLY. THE FOUNDATION WORKS WITH DONORS (BOTH INDIVIDUALS AND CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS) TO ESTABLISH FUNDS TO BENEFIT ONE OR MORE NAMED CHARITIES, TO ACCOMPLISH A CERTAIN OBJECTIVE (PROVIDE FOR CULTURAL EVENTS, ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE, PROVIDE FREE ACTIVITIES FOR YOUTH, IMPROVE CLASSROOM TEACHING, ETC.), TO AWARD SCHOLARSHIPS TO LOCAL STUDENTS, AND TO ALLOW THE BOARD OF THE POLK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY AS THEY CHANGE FROM TIME TO TIME (UNRESTRICTED FUNDS).

Each tax year counts once: when a return was amended, only the latest return for that period is used below (superseded returns stay listed, greyed, under Finances).

People paid by the organization

2 people paid across every filing: current people first, then by total pay from this organization. Organizations counts every nonprofit each person appears on.

Officers and directors, no compensation reported

19 people listed on the returns with $0 (or no amount) in every compensation column: current people first. Hours are as filed on the latest return each person appears on.

People by year

Highest-paid independent contractors

No independent contractors reported.

Who the money went to

Grants this organization reported paying: Schedule I Part II of the Form 990, or the grants-paid list on the 990-PF. Open a year for every recipient. Recipients link to their own page when the grant names an EIN we have (990-PF grants list no EIN, so those link only on an exact, unique name and state). Grants to individuals are counted; their names are not shown.

Negative amounts are returned or refunded grants; they are listed last and left out of the totals of grants paid.

Who gave

Contributor names are not public for this form type.

Public charities filing Form 990 or 990-EZ report large donors on Schedule B, but the IRS withholds their names and addresses from public copies. Private foundations (990-PF) are different: their contributors are public.

Finances

Newest first. Each filing: its name on one row, its figures on the row beneath. Greyed filings are superseded by a later return for the same period and are left out everywhere else on this page.

Connected to

Organizations that list some of the same people on their returns (officers, directors, key employees on this organization’s latest return), and related organizations it lists on Schedule R.

• MARJORIE M & LAWRENCE R BRADLEY ENDOWMENT FUND OF POLK COUNTY N CA Tryon, NC · 12 people in common (A Thomas Jackson, Carolyn Gibson, Dale L Mcentire) · related organization (Schedule R)

Funders of this organization

12 grantors reported grants to this organization, $4,673,380 in all, tax years 2010 to 2025. Exact: the grantor wrote this organization's EIN. Fuzzy: the grantor wrote only a name (foundations' 990-PF has no EIN field), matched to the same or a near-identical name in the same state; the name as filed is shown. From the latest return for each grantor and year, so amended returns aren't counted twice. CSV

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Where the money went

Every expense line on each return, biggest first: Form 990 Part IX (with its program, management and fundraising columns), 990-EZ Part I, or 990-PF Part I. Event marks lines the organization itself describes as events. “Events” in each summary adds those lines, conferences and meetings, and the direct costs of fundraising events. Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.

Donor-advised funds

Donors to individual donor-advised funds are not public. These filings show what the sponsor reports, not who gave.

As reported on Schedule D Part I (and the Form 990 Part IV question “did the organization maintain donor advised funds”). Unusual is not the same as improper. Many of these patterns have ordinary explanations. Check the filing.