North Carolina · Public charity
Asheville Area Arts Council
The mission of artsavl is to keep the arts at the heart of our community. The arts council fulfills its mission by supporting arts professionals and businesses in buncombe county through connection, advocacy, and grants.
- $2.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $385k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,686
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,562
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Asheville Area Arts Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $385k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $141k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $145k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $11k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $236k | 97% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $5k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $8k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leaf Global Arts | $65,007 | 5 | 1% |
| Asheville Symphony Society Inc | $57,317 | 4 | 2% |
| Pack Place Performing Arts Inc | $43,370 | 4 | 1% |
| The Center for Craft Creativity & Design Inc | $40,965 | 4 | 1% |
| Asheville Art Museum Association Inc | $39,425 | 4 | 0% |
| Asheville Community Theatre Inc | $39,095 | 4 | 1% |
| North Carolina Stage Company | $33,800 | 4 | 2% |
| Asheville Glass Art School | $31,882 | 4 | 2% |
| Asheville Music School Sound Education | $31,191 | 4 | 4% |
| Delta House Life Development of | $30,038 | 4 | 15% |
Show all 51 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Asheville Area Arts Council supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · Wnc Bridge Foundation · South Arts Inc · Harry F Chaddick and Elaine Chaddick Foundation Inc · The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Cannon Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Asheville Area Arts Council
- How much does Asheville Area Arts Council give?
- Asheville Area Arts Council reported 34 itemized grants totaling $385,438, out of $1,974,767 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Asheville Area Arts Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (93%), Community Improvement (3%), Human Services (2%).
- Who are Asheville Area Arts Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Leaf Global Arts ($65k), Asheville Symphony Society Inc ($57k), Pack Place Performing Arts Inc ($43k).
- Does Asheville Area Arts Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Asheville Area Arts Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc, Dogwood Health Trust, Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc.
- Where is Asheville Area Arts Council based?
- Asheville Area Arts Council is based in NC.
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