How much did Asheville Area Arts Council grant in FY2024?

Asheville Area Arts Council reported 19 grants totaling $252,068 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Asheville Area Arts Council based?

Asheville Area Arts Council is based in NC.

Asheville Area Arts Council

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· Public charity

Asheville Area Arts Council

Keep the arts at the heart of our community.

$252k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$12k

Largest

01What you fund

0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Arts & Culture$353kHuman Services$23kEducation$19kEnvironment$15kHousing & Shelter$8kOther$119k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

acdtexistproducetheatricalexpose worksemerging playwrightsdiverse

2022

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2023

belovedcreatehealthcarepatientstheatreeducationeducational

2024

patientstheatreeducationarteducationalexperiencesdedicated

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k16 grants · $107k
$10k–50k3 grants · $33k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$391k

Total assets

Largest grants

Wortham Center for the Performing Arts$11,500
LEAF Global Arts$11,375
Asheville Symphony Society$10,500
Asheville Creative Arts$9,500
Asheville Community Theatre$9,250
Delta House Life Development of Asheville$8,500
North Carolina Stage Company$7,875
Center for Craft$7,500
Arts for Life$6,750
Blue Ridge National Heritage Area$6,000
Umoja Health Wellness and Justice Collective$6,000
Open Hearts Art Center$6,000
North Carolina Glass Center$6,000
Southern Highland Craft Guild$5,625
Black Mountain College Museum Arts Center$5,625

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$428k · 20 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$428k

$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

-18%

Still filing today

95%

78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

AS
Asheville Symphony Society Inc
3× · 2021–2024 · $39k · revenue +47%
DH
Delta House Life Development of Asheville
4× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +823%
AW
Asheville Writers in the Schools
3× · 2021–2023 · $21k · revenue +241%

Funded once

HC
Hola Community Arts
one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -18%
BA
BeLoved Ashevillegraduated
one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +159171%
WN
Western North Carolina Historical Associationgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +206%

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.

Greenville Theatre Arts Center

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Yadkin Arts Council Inc

The exempt purpose of Yadkin Arts Council, Inc. is to coordinate and develop the cultural resources in Yadkin County in connection with the arts and to enrich lives through the arts.

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Asheville Chamber Music Inc

Asheville chamber series, inc. is a not-for-profit musical arts and education organization dedicated to the presentation of outstanding chamber music performances for its members and the general public. acms also endeavors to support and…

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Cultural Voice of North Carolina

Provide Calendars and Reviews of NC Arts

Arts & Culture

Greenville Institute of the Arts

Leaf Institute of Art & Vocation is a unique community non-profit organization with focus on faith and work integration, thoughtful cultural events, and arts education.

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The Childrens Theatre of Charlotte Inc

The mission of Children's Theatre of Charlotte (CTC) is to create exceptional theatre experiences, inspiring generations to explore the wonder of their world.

Arts & Culture

Mountain Arts Network

To inspire visual arts in the mountain communities

Arts & Culture

North Carolina History Theater

The North Carolina History Theater, Inc., is a qualified 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to expressing and exploring the unique history of North Carolina through the performing arts, and celebrating the rich diversity of our…

Arts & Culture

The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem

To provide community theatre productions and accessible educational opportunities in theatre.

Arts & Culture

Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust

The greater charlotte cultural trust manages charitable permanent funds in support of the arts & science council charlotte/mecklenburg and its cultural partners.

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North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation

The north carolina museum of art highlights the following programming, exhibition and initiatives; in the last year the museum added 41 works of art with expansions in the american collection, contemporary acquisitions and african art.…

Arts & Culture

Cabarrus Arts Council

The mission of Cabarrus Arts Council is to present, promote and inspire creativity in our community.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Asheville Creative Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Center for Craft Creativity &. 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 22 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/39

the rest of the field

127/1,660

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.

05the grantee network

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/35

Grantees still filing

18/35

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$353,398Other$119,471Human Services$22,840Education$19,382Environment$15,250Housing & Shelter$7,500

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.

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 Community FoundationNC53.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Henderson · Dogwood Health Trust · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Morton and Barbara · North Carolina Humanities Council · Foundation for the Carolinas · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 organisation Asheville Area Arts Council 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.

2024

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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 561287954 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Asheville Area Arts Council?

Find your warmest path to Asheville Area Arts Council through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Asheville Area Arts Council

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Asheville Area Arts Council?

More from the funding graph

Asheville Area Arts Council

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Asheville Area Arts Council?

More from the funding graph