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· Public charity

Chapman Cultural Center Inc

To provide cultural leadership for greater Spartanburg by developing, strengthening and promoting the scope, excellence and educational role of the arts, humanities and science, and to further their significance in the life of our community.

$447k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.3MScience & Tech$261kEnvironment$51kCivil Rights$15k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $423k
$63,964
Median grant
1
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ballet Spartanburg$115,484
The Spartanburg Little Theatre$93,165
Spartanburg Art Museum$92,841
Spartanburg Philharmonic$63,964
Spartanburg Science Center$57,781
The Artist Guild of Spartanburg$14,976
Hub City Writers Project$8,726
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ARTISTS COLLECTIVE: $28k → 15%ARTISTS COLLECTIVE: $20k → 15%Artists Collective: $17k → 15%Ballet Spartanburg: $115k → 15%BALLET SPARTANBURG: $103k → 15%THE SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE: $94k → 15%The Spartanburg Little Theatre: $93k → 15%Spartanburg Art Museum: $93k → 15%SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC: $90k → 15%SPARTANBURG ART MUSEUM: $89k → 15%BALLET SPARTANBURG: $89k → 15%SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC: $88k → 15%SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC: $82k → 15%THE SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE: $78k → 15%SPARTANBURG ART MUSEUM: $71k → 15%SPARTANBURG COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $70k → 15%Ballet Spartanburg: $68k → 15%The Spartanburg Little Theatre: $68k → 15%THE MUSIC FOUNDATION OF SPARTANBURG: $65k → 15%Spartanburg Philharmonic: $64k → 15%Spartanburg Philharmonic: $62k → 15%SPARTANBURG SCIENCE CENTER: $61k → 15%BALLET SPARTANBURG: $60k → 15%SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC: $60k → 15%SPARTANBURG ART MUSEUM: $58k → 15%Spartanburg Science Center: $58k → 15%Spartanburg Art Museum: $56k → 15%SPARTANBURG ART MUSEUM: $52k → 15%THE SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE: $50k → 15%SPARTANBURG COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $49k → 15%SPARTANBURG COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $46k → 15%SPARTANBURG SCIENCE CENTER: $44k → 15%SPARTANBURG COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $40k → 15%BALLET SPARTANBURG: $40k → 15%SPARTANBURG SCIENCE CENTER: $38k → 15%THE SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE: $34k → 15%HUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT: $33k → 15%Spartanburg Science Center: $32k → 15%SPARTANBURG SCIENCE CENTER: $27k → 15%HUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT: $23k → 15%Spartanburg County Historical Association: $22k → 15%HUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT: $20k → 15%THE ARTISTS' GUILD OF SPARTANBURG: $20k → 15%Hub City Writers Project: $16k → 15%THE ARTISTS' GUILD OF SPARTANBURG: $16k → 15%The Artist Guild of Spartanburg: $15k → 15%Hatcher Garden and Woodland: $14k → 15%HATCHER GARDEN AND WOODLAND PRESERVE INC: $14k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 11 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$2.6M
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
0%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SP
    SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $511k · revenue +69%
  • BS
    BALLET SPARTANBURG INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $480k · revenue +54%
  • SL
    SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $420k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • SD
    Speaking Down Barriers
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • SS
    STONE SOUP STORYTELLING INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0% · 37% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sumter County Fine Arts Council

Cultural enrichment through arts programs

Arts & Culture
2
Southwest Washington Center for the Arts
Philanthropy
3
The Spartanburg Repertory Company

Promote community arts appreciation

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4
Small Town Art Publications

Produce books that celebrate the arts

Arts & Culture
5
Seward Arts Council
—
6
Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617

As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.

Arts & Culture
7
State of the Arts Productions
Arts & Culture
8
Avk Scholar

AVK Scholar, provides stability and movement through entertainment for Spartanburg County girls and boys. Our goal is to charter a healthy and creative atmosphere for teenagers through health and education through dance and film and…

Arts & Culture
9
Savannah Museum of African Art Inc
Arts & Culture
10
Strategic Spartanburg Inc

To report on data and engage the community in dialogue and strategy that leads to positive change in spartanburg county.

Community Improvement
11
Guttenberg Arts a Nj Nonprofit Corp
Arts & Culture
12
Creative Kids Srq
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spartanburg Little Theatre; the most unlike its peers is Hub City Writers Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC: $511,362 · OtherSPARTANBURG PHILHARMONICSPARTANBURG ART MUSEUM: $425,238 · OtherSPARTANBURG ART MUSEUMSPARTANBURG SCIENCE CENTER: $261,276 · OtherSPARTANBURG SCIENCE CENTERSPARTANBURG COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOC: $226,925 · OtherSPARTANBURG COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCTHE ARTISTS GUILD OF SPARTANBURG: $82,474 · OtherTHE ARTISTS GUILD OF SPARTANBURG+2 more: $31,000 · OtherBALLET SPARTANBURG INC: $479,909 · Arts & CultureBALLET SPARTANBURG INCSPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE: $419,805 · Arts & CultureSPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATREHUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT: $100,526 · Arts & CultureHUB CITY WRITERS PROJECTARTISTS COLLECTIVE SPARTANBURG INC: $64,900 · Arts & CultureARTISTS COLLECTIVE SPARTANBURG INCHATCHER GARDEN AND WOODLAND PRESERVE IN: $50,700 · EnvironmentSpeaking Down Barriers: $15,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,538,275Arts & Culture$1,065,140Environment$50,700Civil Rights$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC: $511,362 over 8y, 14% of budgetBALLET SPARTANBURG INC: $479,909 over 8y, 12% of budgetSPARTANBURG ART MUSEUM: $425,238 over 8y, 26% of budgetSPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE: $419,805 over 8y, 12% of budgetSPARTANBURG SCIENCE CENTER: $261,276 over 8y, 29% of budgetSPARTANBURG COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOC: $226,925 over 7y, 31% of budgetHUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT: $100,526 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetTHE ARTISTS GUILD OF SPARTANBURG: $82,474 over 8y, 52% of budgetARTISTS COLLECTIVE SPARTANBURG INC: $64,900 over 3y, 16% of budgetHATCHER GARDEN AND WOODLAND PRESERVE IN: $50,700 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetSpeaking Down Barriers: $15,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetSTONE SOUP STORYTELLING INSTITUTE: $10,250 over 1y, 37% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SPARTANBURG PHILHARMONIC ↗
  • Who funds BALLET SPARTANBURG INC ↗
  • Who funds SPARTANBURG ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SPARTANBURG LITTLE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds SPARTANBURG SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SPARTANBURG COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOC ↗
  • Who funds HUB CITY WRITERS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE ARTISTS GUILD OF SPARTANBURG ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS COLLECTIVE SPARTANBURG INC ↗
  • Who funds HATCHER GARDEN AND WOODLAND PRESERVE IN ↗
  • Who funds Speaking Down Barriers ↗
  • Who funds STONE SOUP STORYTELLING INSTITUTE ↗

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.

Spartanburg County Fo…Balmer FoundationArkwright FoundationMilliken & Company Ch…South Carolina Humani…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Spartanburg County FoundationSC26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Spartanburg County Foundation · Balmer Foundation · Arkwright Foundation · Milliken & Company Charitable Foundation · South Carolina Humanities Council Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chapman Cultural Center Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chapman Cultural Center Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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