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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.

$880k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of ART CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $265k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $601k
$43,775
Median grant
1
States reached
$97k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST FLORIDA HISTORIC PRESERVATION$85,000
WSRE-TV FOUNDATION INC$56,365
FIESTA OF THE FIVE FLAGS ASSOCIATIO$51,250
PENSACOLA OPERA$51,250
PENSACOLA CHILDRENS CHORUS$51,250
PENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$51,250
PENSACOLA LITTLE THEATER$51,250
FIRST CITY ARTS CENTER$51,250
PENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION$51,250
BALLET OF PENSACOLA$51,250
NIGHT MOVES INC$50,000
PENSACOLA OPERA$43,775
PENSACOLA MESS HALL$37,413
CHORAL SOCIETY OF PENSACOLA$36,927
PENSACOLA MUSEUM OF ART$26,100
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%PENSACOLA LGBT FILM FESTIVAL: $45k → 9%PENSACOLA CIVIC BAND: $65k → 16%WSRE-TV FOUNDATION INC: $56k → 16%NIGHT MOVES INC: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA FOUNDATI: $56k → 16%FIRST CITY ARTS CENTER: $60k → 16%FIRST CITY ARTS CENTER: $54k → 16%FIRST CITY ARTS CENTER: $51k → 16%WEST FLORIDA HISTORIC PRESERVATION: $85k → 16%PENSACOLA LITTLE THEATER: $83k → 16%FRIENDS OF DOWNTOWN: $67k → 16%PENSACOLA LITTLE THEATER: $64k → 16%PENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $64k → 16%PENSACOLA OPERA: $63k → 16%FRIENDS OF DOWNTOWN: $63k → 16%FIESTA OF THE FICE FLAGS ASSOCIATIO: $62k → 16%PENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $61k → 16%FIESTA OF THE FIVE FLAGS ASSOCIATIO: $61k → 16%BALLET OF PENSACOLA: $61k → 16%PENSACOLA LITTLE THEATER: $61k → 16%PENSACOLA CHILDRENS CHORUS: $61k → 16%PENSACOLA OPERA: $61k → 16%PENSACOLA CHILDRENS CHORUS: $60k → 16%PENSACOLA CHILDRENS CHORUS: $60k → 16%PENSACOLA OPERA: $58k → 16%BALLET OF PENSACOLA: $58k → 16%PENSACOLA LITTLE THEATER: $58k → 16%PENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $58k → 16%FIESTA OF THE FICE FLAGS ASSOCIATIO: $58k → 16%PENSACOLA OPERA: $57k → 16%PENSACOLA OPERA: $55k → 16%BALLET OF PENSACOLA: $54k → 16%PENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $51k → 16%PENSACOLA OPERA: $51k → 16%PENSACOLA LITTLE THEATER: $51k → 16%BALLET OF PENSACOLA: $51k → 16%PENSACOLA CHILDRENS CHORUS: $51k → 16%FIESTA OF THE FIVE FLAGS ASSOCIATIO: $51k → 16%PENSACOLA LITTLE THEATER: $48k → 16%GREAT GULFCOAST ARTS FESTIVAL: $48k → 16%PENSACOLA LITTLE THEATER: $46k → 16%PENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $44k → 16%PENSACOLA CHILDRENS CHORUS: $44k → 16%PENSACOLA OPERA: $44k → 16%PENSACOLA OPERA: $44k → 16%PENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION: $61k → 16%PENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION: $53k → 16%PENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION: $51k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 21 repeat orgs$347k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
7

Total granted

$3.6M
$269k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+14%

Still filing today

71%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PO
    PENSACOLA OPERA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $473k · revenue +49%
  • PL
    PENSACOLA LITTLE THEATRE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $440k · revenue +155%
  • PC
    PENSACOLA CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $289k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PENSACOLA CIVIC BAND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $65k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $56k · revenue +32%
  • GG
    Great Gulfcoast Arts Festival Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $48k · revenue +6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Greater Pensacola Symphony Orchestra Inc

The mission of the pensacola symphony orchestra is to promote the well being of the greater pensacola community through excellence in live symphonic music and lifelong learning through engaging musical activities.

Arts & Culture
2
Winterfest of Pensacola Inc

Preservation promotion of historic district. seasonal tours of downtown historic district neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
3
Palm Coast Music Festival Inc
Arts & Culture
4
Panama City Symphony Inc

To provide excellent classical and popular music which delights, educates, and inspires the cultural life of our communities within a sustainable financial structure

Arts & Culture
5
Pensacola Sports Association Inc Fka Pensacola Sports Association Foundation
Recreation & Sports
6
Panama City Music Association Inc

The mission is to bring the excitement of classical and modern music, dance, opera, and musical theatre to the widest possible audience of bay county and to increase the participation of youth in musical arts.

Arts & Culture
7
Port Theatre and Culture Center Inc

To provide a focal point for artistic, educational and cultural activities within the city of port st joe, florida and the surrounding areas.

Arts & Culture
8
The Florida Theatre Performing Arts Cent

Our mission as a non-profit is to enhance the north florida community's quality of life by providing diverse and memorable arts and entertainment experiences and by preserving a unique historic jacksonville landmark.

Arts & Culture
9
Fiesta of Five Flags Foundation Inc

The advancement of educational, historical, and patriotic celebrations and community festivals celebrating and commemorating the first settlement in florida.

Arts & Culture
10
Seminole Cultural Arts Theatre Inc

Renovation & performances of the seminole theatre

Arts & Culture
11
Flagler County Art League Inc

To provide art education and exhibit art by local artists for the enrichment and benefit of the public in Flagler and surrounding counties, Florida.

Education
12
Florida Ballet At Jacksonville Inc

The mission of the florida ballet is to enrich and inspire the cultural landscape of our community through the education and art of classical ballet.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pensacola Children's Chorus Inc and the most unlike its peers is 309 Punk Museum Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr14%10%5–10yr17%24%10–20yr14%10%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr18%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr17%21%10–20yr14%11%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr18%31%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
13%
216/1,612

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PENSACOLA OPERA INC — $472,998 · Arts & CulturePENSACOLA OPERA INCPENSACOLA LITTLE THEATRE INC — $439,653 · Arts & CulturePENSACOLA LITTLE THEATRE INCBALLET PENSACOLA INC — $266,330 · Arts & CultureBALLET PENSACOLA INCPENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION — $206,388 · Arts & CulturePENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATIONTHE PENSACOLA MESS HALL INC — $179,536 · Arts & CultureTHE PENSACOLA MESS HALL INCNIGHT MOVES — $93,500 · Arts & CultureVETERANS MEMORIAL PARK FOUNDATION OF PENSACOLA INC — $74,807 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $250,163 · Arts & Culture+6 morePENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GUILD INC — $300,958 · OtherPENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GUILD INCPENSACOLA CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC — $288,844 · OtherPENSACOLA CHILDREN'S CHORUS INCFIESTA OF FIVE FLAGS ASSOCIATION INC — $274,990 · OtherFIESTA OF FIVE FLAGS ASSOCIATION INCFIRST CITY ARTS CENTER — $207,729 · OtherFIRST CITY ARTS CENTERJAZZ SOCIETY OF PENSACOLA INC — $109,992 · OtherJAZZ SOCIETY OF PENSACOLA INCTHE CHORAL SOCIETY OF PENSACOLA — $96,781 · OtherTHE CHORAL SOCIETY OF PENSACOLAWEST FLORIDA HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC — $93,450 · OtherWEST FLORIDA HISTORIC PRESERVATION INCLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA INC — $75,000 · OtherTHE PENSACOLA CIVIC BAND INC — $65,000 · Other+6 more — $157,286 · Other+6 moreFriends of Downtown Pensacola Inc — $167,999 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $55,500 · EducationDIXON SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC — $39,400 · Education
Arts & Culture$1,983,375Other$1,670,030Community Improvement$167,999Education$94,900

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPENSACOLA OPERA INC — $472,998 over 5y, 11% of budgetPENSACOLA LITTLE THEATRE INC — $439,653 over 5y, 17% of budgetPENSACOLA CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC — $288,844 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetFIESTA OF FIVE FLAGS ASSOCIATION INC — $274,990 over 5y, 22% of budgetBALLET PENSACOLA INC — $266,330 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetPENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION — $206,388 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetTHE PENSACOLA MESS HALL INC — $179,536 over 5y, 16% of budgetFriends of Downtown Pensacola Inc — $167,999 over 3y, 35% of budgetJAZZ SOCIETY OF PENSACOLA INC — $109,992 over 5y, 44% of budgetTHE CHORAL SOCIETY OF PENSACOLA — $96,781 over 5y, 47% of budgetNIGHT MOVES — $93,500 over 2y, 24% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA INC — $75,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVETERANS MEMORIAL PARK FOUNDATION OF PENSACOLA INC — $74,807 over 2y, 19% 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 budgetThe Japan American Society of NW Florida Inc — $12,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetGALLERY NIGHT OF PENSACOLA INC — $8,388 over 1y, 13% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bear Family Found…Impact 100 Pensacola …Mb Meyer Charitable TrThe Kugelman Family F…The Perry Family Foun…Robert H Kahn Jr Fami…International Paper C…Gulf Power Foundation…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Art Culture and Entertainment Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Legal Services of North Florida Inc — 27% of income from government
  • The Pensacola Mess Hall Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Pensacola Little Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
  • First City Arts Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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