How much does Artsbuild give?

Artsbuild reported 24 itemized grants totaling $601,400, out of $1,517,674 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Artsbuild fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (98%), Youth Development (1%), Animals (0%).

Who are Artsbuild's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hunter Museum of American Art ($1.8M), Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Association ($1.7M), Creative Discovery Museum ($637k).

Does Artsbuild fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

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Tennessee · Public charity

Artsbuild

ARTSBUILD provides general operating and project support grants to local arts organizations, community groups and individual artists; arts education programs; and arts leadership programs all towards the goal of increasing access to the arts with more arts in more places.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 24
Itemized grants FY2025: 27
Organizations funded FY2024: 19%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $601k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $12,880
Largest grant, FY2025: $94,000
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 27; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $20M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Artsbuild funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	24	$601k	0%
FY2024	27	$977k	19%
FY2023	23	$917k	26%
FY2022	19	$831k	16%
FY2021	22	$883k	23%
FY2020	18	$800k	22%
FY2019	15	$799k	47%
FY2018	12	$787k	100%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$7.3MYouth Development$47kAnimals$17kCommunity Improvement$14kPhilanthropy$10kEnvironment$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Hunter Museum of American Art	$1,763,071	8	9%
Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Association	$1,667,410	8	20%
Creative Discovery Museum	$637,000	8	2%
Chattanooga Theatre Centre Inc	$631,675	8	9%
The Chattanooga Ballet	$269,360	8	7%
Chattanooga Boys Choir	$158,870	8	11%
The Pop-Up Project	$85,250	5	9%
Scenic City Clay Arts	$85,195	6	4%
Splash	$85,090	7	7%
Art120	$76,091	7	20%

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All grantees of Artsbuild by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Hunter Museum of American Art	$1,763,071	8	9%
Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Association	$1,667,410	8	20%
Creative Discovery Museum	$637,000	8	2%
Chattanooga Theatre Centre Inc	$631,675	8	9%
The Chattanooga Ballet	$269,360	8	7%
Chattanooga Boys Choir	$158,870	8	11%
The Pop-Up Project	$85,250	5	9%
Scenic City Clay Arts	$85,195	6	4%
Splash	$85,090	7	7%
Art120	$76,091	7	20%
Ballet Tennessee Inc	$74,270	3	11%
East Lake Expression Engine	$73,765	7	5%
Southern Lit Alliance	$69,400	7	15%
Soundcorps Inc	$65,878	7	6%
The Bessie Smith Cultural Center	$56,825	7	1%
Contemporary Performing Arts of Chattanooga Inc	$56,140	6	16%
Songbirds Foundation Inc	$53,300	4	3%
Association for Visual Artists	$52,750	4	6%
Stove Works	$49,290	4	6%
Hart Gallery Tn	$34,320	3	16%
Scenic City Shakespeare	$33,690	3	n/a
Be The Change Youth Initiative	$26,530	3	8%
Houston Museum of Decorative Arts	$25,002	3	4%
Dynamo Studios	$22,000	3	4%
Chattanooga Girls Choir	$19,415	3	10%
Playful Evolving Monster	$17,200	1	n/a
The Chattery	$14,484	2	2%
Sculpture Fields at Montague Park	$12,750	1	5%
Next Exit Productions	$12,500	2	57%
Unity Performing Arts Foundation	$10,500	2	28%
Jewish Community Federation of Greater Chattanooga	$10,000	1	0%
Obvious Dad	$10,000	1	n/a
Beckett Media Productions	$8,000	1	n/a
MNGK Garvey Program	$7,412	1	30%
Music Fashion and Art	$7,200	1	n/a
Shaking Ray Levi Society Inc	$6,500	1	32%
Rhyme N Chatt Interactive Poetry Organization	$6,425	1	n/a
Doors Open Jazz Inc	$6,000	1	19%
Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center	$5,600	1	0%

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Artsbuild supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 33.

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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.

Lyndhurst Foundation IncTN38.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lyndhurst Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · Footprint Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Chattanooga Tourism Foundation · Humanities Tennessee · The Hacker and Kitty Caldwell Family Foundation Inc · George R Johnson Family Foundation · Schillhahn-Huskey Foundation · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie 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 Artsbuild

How much does Artsbuild give?: Artsbuild reported 24 itemized grants totaling $601,400, out of $1,517,674 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Artsbuild fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (98%), Youth Development (1%), Animals (0%).
Who are Artsbuild's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hunter Museum of American Art ($1.8M), Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Association ($1.7M), Creative Discovery Museum ($637k).
Does Artsbuild fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Artsbuild?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lyndhurst Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc, Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation.
Where is Artsbuild based?: Artsbuild is based in TN.