· Public charity
Arts Council of Wayne County Inc
To promote arts in wayne county, north carolina
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k11 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A Drummers World Drumline Performin | $10,005 |
| Kinetic Minds | $3,000 |
| Boys & Girsl Clubs of Wayne County | $2,500 |
| Paramount Theater | $2,000 |
| Goldsboro Civic Ballet Inc | $1,675 |
| Artistic Dance Productions | $1,500 |
| III Century Singers | $1,000 |
| Wayne County Public Schools | $1,000 |
| Starlight Dance Bank | $1,000 |
| Friends of Peggy Seegars Senior Cen | $1,000 |
| Center Stage Theater | $500 |
| Stagestruck | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
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 FY2020, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WAYNE CO INC3× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +9%
- GCGOLDSBORO CIVIC BALLET INC3× · 2018–2020 · $5k · revenue +148%
- TPTHE PARAMOUNT THEATRE FOUNDATION THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
- HRHOMEFRONT ROOM REVIVALone grant, 2019 · $900 · revenue +10%
- WPWAYNE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $600 · revenue +211%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Theatre Company Performing Arts
Ballet theater
Perfomrances were staged by students for the public.
Encourage develop and utilize artistic t
Non-profit regional dance company
Ballet performance and education
Performance arts education
provide children and teens with musical theater performance instruction and performance opportunities
Educational ballet programs
Young people's theater
To teach dance
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stagestruck the Young People's Own Theatre and the most unlike its peers is The Paramount Theatre Foundation the Paramount Theatre Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds A DRUMMERS WORLD DRUMLINE PERFORMING ARTS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WAYNE CO INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDSBORO CIVIC BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTIC PRODUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE FOUNDATION THE PARAMOUNT THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STAGESTRUCK THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S OWN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds KINETIC MINDS ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER STAGE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HOMEFRONT ROOM REVIVAL ↗
- Who funds WAYNE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: R a Bryan Foundation Inc · M & J Foundation Inc · Mid-Atlantic Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · 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 Arts Council of Wayne County 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.