North Carolina · Public charity
Cabarrus Arts Council
The mission of Cabarrus Arts Council is to present, promote and inspire creativity in our community.
- $171k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $72k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $666k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Cabarrus Arts Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 8 | $72k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $87k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $81k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $122k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $24k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina Music Hall of Fame Inc | $85,416 | 3 | 96% |
| Old Courthouse Theatre Inc | $79,376 | 4 | 6% |
| City of Kannapolis | $70,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Multi-Culture Community Student Union | $28,700 | 3 | n/a |
| Southern Piedmont Woodturners Inc | $24,258 | 2 | n/a |
| Early Childhood Foundation of Cabarrus County | $21,000 | 3 | n/a |
| El Puente Hispano | $16,650 | 2 | 4% |
| Guerilla Poets Ltd | $11,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Fulltime Funkytown Inc | $11,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Town of Harrisburg | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina Music Hall of Fame Inc | $85,416 | 3 | 96% |
| Old Courthouse Theatre Inc | $79,376 | 4 | 6% |
| City of Kannapolis | $70,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Multi-Culture Community Student Union | $28,700 | 3 | n/a |
| Southern Piedmont Woodturners Inc | $24,258 | 2 | n/a |
| Early Childhood Foundation of Cabarrus County | $21,000 | 3 | n/a |
| El Puente Hispano | $16,650 | 2 | 4% |
| Guerilla Poets Ltd | $11,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Fulltime Funkytown Inc | $11,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Town of Harrisburg | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Mt Pleasant Library Inc | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rice Family Community Events Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cabarrus Art Guild Inc | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Old Courthouse Theatre | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Cabarrus Arts Council
- How much does Cabarrus Arts Council give?
- Cabarrus Arts Council reported 8 itemized grants totaling $71,500, out of $171,228 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cabarrus Arts Council fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (75%), Recreation & Sports (12%), Education (11%).
- Who are Cabarrus Arts Council's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: North Carolina Music Hall of Fame Inc ($85k), Old Courthouse Theatre Inc ($79k), City of Kannapolis ($70k).
- Does Cabarrus Arts Council fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cabarrus Arts Council?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Cabarrus Arts Council based?
- Cabarrus Arts Council is based in NC.
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