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Art Culture and Entertainment Inc at a glance

· Public charity

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 FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $242k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $714k
$51,102
Median grant
1
States reached
$932k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NIGHT MOVES INC$100,000
FIRENDS OF DOWNTOWN$87,927
PENSACOLA OPERA$62,000
PENSACOLA LITTLE THEATER$55,000
PENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$51,103
PENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION$51,103
FIRST CITY ARTS CENTER$51,102
BALLET OF PENSACOLA$51,102
FIESTA OF THE FIVE FLAGS ASSOCIATIO$51,102
PENSACOLA CHILDRENS CHORUS$51,102
PENSACOLA LITTLE THEATER$51,102
PENSACOLA OPERA$51,102
JAPAN AMERICA SOCIETY OF NWFL INC$47,235
PENSACOLA MESS HALL$38,773
PENARTS INC$33,660
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%NIGHT MOVES INC: $100k → 16%PENSACOLA CIVIC BAND: $65k → 16%WSRE-TV FOUNDATION INC: $56k → 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%FIRST CITY ARTS CENTER: $51k → 16%FIRENDS OF DOWNTOWN: $88k → 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%PENSACOLA OPERA: $62k → 16%FIESTA OF THE FICE FLAGS ASSOCIATIO: $62k → 16%PENSACOLA LITTLE THEATER: $61k → 16%PENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $61k → 16%FIESTA OF THE FIVE FLAGS ASSOCIATIO: $61k → 16%BALLET OF PENSACOLA: $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%PENSACOLA LITTLE THEATER: $55k → 16%BALLET OF PENSACOLA: $54k → 16%PENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $51k → 16%PENSACOLA OPERA: $51k → 16%PENSACOLA CHILDRENS CHORUS: $51k → 16%PENSACOLA LITTLE THEATER: $51k → 16%BALLET OF PENSACOLA: $51k → 16%FIESTA OF THE FIVE FLAGS ASSOCIATIO: $51k → 16%PENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $51k → 16%BALLET OF PENSACOLA: $51k → 16%PENSACOLA CHILDRENS CHORUS: $51k → 16%PENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION: $61k → 16%PENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION: $53k → 16%PENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION: $51k → 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 23 repeat orgs$327k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
8

Total granted

$4.5M
$327k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+20%

Still filing today

74%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PO
    PENSACOLA OPERA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $586k · revenue +49%
  • PL
    PENSACOLA LITTLE THEATRE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $546k · revenue +155%
  • PS
    PENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GUILD INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $374k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PENSACOLA CIVIC BAND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $65k
  • WT
    WSRE TV FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $56k · revenue +47%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $56k · revenue +32%
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
Seminole Cultural Arts Theatre Inc

Renovation & performances of the seminole theatre

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
Pacifica Performances Inc

Pacifica Performance Inc. presents live music performances and related arts programs for the Pacifica community and supports music education and cultural engagement.

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
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
11
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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12
Pasco County Fine Arts Council

Our mission is to provide cultural resources to the community and to encourage the knowledge and appreciation of all art forms. As a nonprofit organization, Pasco Fine Arts Council strives to enrich the lives of people throughout Pasco…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pensacola Children's Chorus Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENSACOLA OPERA INC: $586,100 · Arts & CulturePENSACOLA OPERA INCPENSACOLA LITTLE THEATRE INC: $545,755 · Arts & CulturePENSACOLA LITTLE THEATRE INCBALLET PENSACOLA INC: $317,432 · Arts & CultureBALLET PENSACOLA INCPENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATION: $257,491 · Arts & CulturePENSACOLA LIGHTHOUSE ASSOCIATIONTHE PENSACOLA MESS HALL INC: $218,309 · Arts & CultureTHE PENSACOLA MESS HALL INCNIGHT MOVES: $193,500 · Arts & CultureNIGHT MOVES+7 more: $379,557 · Arts & Culture+7 morePENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GUILD INC: $373,574 · OtherPENSACOLA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GUILD INCPENSACOLA CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC: $339,946 · OtherPENSACOLA CHILDREN'S CHORUS INCFIESTA OF FIVE FLAGS ASSOCIATION INC: $326,092 · OtherFIESTA OF FIVE FLAGS ASSOCIATION INCFIRST CITY ARTS CENTER: $258,831 · OtherFIRST CITY ARTS CENTERJAZZ SOCIETY OF PENSACOLA INC: $123,494 · OtherJAZZ SOCIETY OF PENSACOLA INCTHE CHORAL SOCIETY OF PENSACOLA: $114,761 · OtherTHE CHORAL SOCIETY OF PENSACOLALEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA INC: $95,000 · OtherWEST FLORIDA HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC: $93,450 · Other+7 more: $298,083 · Other+7 moreFriends of Downtown Pensacola Inc: $255,926 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $55,500 · EducationDIXON SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC: $39,400 · Education
Arts & Culture$2,498,144Other$2,023,231Community Improvement$255,926Education$94,900

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Art Culture and Entertainment Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Art Culture and Entertainment Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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