· Public charity
American Corporation of the Arts
The purpose of the AMERICAN CORPORATION OF THE ARTS is to raise and distribute funds to further the cultural and artistic awareness of the general public.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NED PAN INC | $100,683 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE | $31,000 |
| THE BROADWAY LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| THE BROADWAY LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC | $12,000 |
| HOLLYWOOD POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of American Corporation of the Arts’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 76% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 53%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TBTHE BROADWAY LEAGUE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $182k · revenue +179%
- TNTHE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $151k · revenue +59%
- HPHOLLYWOOD POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE5× · 2017–2024 · $36k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- BTBLACK THEATRE COALITION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $19k · revenue +33%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 8 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization American Corporation of the Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Corporation of the Arts. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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