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Art Culture and Entertainment Inc

Receives state, county, city, and personal funds to disperse through an equitable granting process to arts, culture, and entertainment organizations throughout escambia county, fl.

$956k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$51,102
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 21
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$932k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Art Culture and Entertainment Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$956k0%
FY202421$876k14%
FY202321$988k38%
FY202218$902k22%
FY202116$650k38%
FY202010$500kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.8MCrime & Legal$75kEducation$39kRecreation & Sports$18k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pensacola Opera Inc$586,100611%
Pensacola Little Theatre Inc$545,755617%
Pensacola Symphony Orchestra Guild Inc$373,5746n/a
Pensacola Children's Chorus Inc$339,946610%
Fiesta of Five Flags Association Inc$326,092622%
Ballet Pensacola Inc$317,43268%
First City Arts Center$258,8315n/a
Pensacola Lighthouse Association$257,49158%
Friends of Downtown Pensacola Inc$255,926435%
The Pensacola Mess Hall Inc$218,309616%
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All grantees of Art Culture and Entertainment Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pensacola Opera Inc$586,100611%
Pensacola Little Theatre Inc$545,755617%
Pensacola Symphony Orchestra Guild Inc$373,5746n/a
Pensacola Children's Chorus Inc$339,946610%
Fiesta of Five Flags Association Inc$326,092622%
Ballet Pensacola Inc$317,43268%
First City Arts Center$258,8315n/a
Pensacola Lighthouse Association$257,49158%
Friends of Downtown Pensacola Inc$255,926435%
The Pensacola Mess Hall Inc$218,309616%
Night Moves$193,500324%
Jazz Society of Pensacola Inc$123,494644%
The Choral Society of Pensacola$114,761647%
Legal Services of North Florida Inc$95,00050%
West Florida Historic Preservation Inc$93,4502n/a
Veterans Memorial Park Foundation of Pensacola Inc$74,807219%
Penarts Inc$74,4603n/a
The Pensacola Civic Band Inc$65,0001n/a
Pensacola State College$60,6303n/a
The Japan American Society of NW Florida Inc$59,235224%
Wsre Tv Foundation Inc$56,36514%
University of West Florida Foundation Inc$55,50010%
Pensacola Lgbt Film Festival Inc$54,000264%
309 Punk Museum Project$51,2503n/a
Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc$47,728118%
First City Arts Alliance Inc$42,88215%
Pensacola Museum of Art$42,1802n/a
Dixon School of Arts and Sciences Inc$39,40012%
Gallery Night of Pensacola Inc$29,315213%
Pensacola Quilters Guild Inc$10,0001n/a
Wide Angle Photo Club Inc$9,7881n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Art Culture and Entertainment Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPensacola Opera Inc: $586,100 over 6y, 11% of budgetPensacola Little Theatre Inc: $545,755 over 6y, 17% of budgetPensacola Children's Chorus Inc: $339,946 over 6y, 10.0% of budgetFiesta of Five Flags Association Inc: $326,092 over 6y, 22% of budgetBallet Pensacola Inc: $317,432 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetPensacola Lighthouse Association: $257,491 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetFriends of Downtown Pensacola Inc: $255,926 over 4y, 35% of budgetThe Pensacola Mess Hall Inc: $218,309 over 6y, 16% of budgetNight Moves: $193,500 over 3y, 24% of budgetJazz Society of Pensacola Inc: $123,494 over 6y, 44% of budgetThe Choral Society of Pensacola: $114,761 over 6y, 47% of budgetLegal Services of North Florida Inc: $95,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVeterans Memorial Park Foundation of Pensacola Inc: $74,807 over 2y, 19% of budgetThe Japan American Society of NW Florida Inc: $59,235 over 2y, 24% of budgetWsre Tv Foundation Inc: $56,365 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetUniversity of West Florida Foundation Inc: $55,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPensacola Lgbt Film Festival Inc: $54,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetGreat Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc: $47,728 over 1y, 18% of budgetFirst City Arts Alliance Inc: $42,882 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetDixon School of Arts and Sciences Inc: $39,400 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGallery Night of Pensacola Inc: $29,315 over 2y, 13% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bear Family Foundation IncFL30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bear Family Foundation Inc · Impact 100 Pensacola Bay Area Inc · Mb Meyer Charitable Tr · The Kugelman Family Foundation Inc · The Perry Family Foundation · Robert H Kahn Jr Family Foundation Dtd 6/16/98 · International Paper Company Foundation · Gulf Power Foundationinc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Art Culture and Entertainment Inc

How much does Art Culture and Entertainment Inc give?
Art Culture and Entertainment Inc reported 22 grants totaling $955,897 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Art Culture and Entertainment Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (97%), Crime & Legal (2%), Education (1%).
Who are Art Culture and Entertainment Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Pensacola Opera Inc ($586k), Pensacola Little Theatre Inc ($546k), Pensacola Symphony Orchestra Guild Inc ($374k).
Does Art Culture and Entertainment Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Art Culture and Entertainment Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bear Family Foundation Inc, Impact 100 Pensacola Bay Area Inc, Mb Meyer Charitable Tr.
Where is Art Culture and Entertainment Inc based?
Art Culture and Entertainment Inc is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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