How much does Fund for the Arts give?

Fund for the Arts reported 11 grants totaling $175,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Fund for the Arts fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).

Who are Fund for the Arts's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of Wv Inc ($393k), West Virginia Symphony Orchestra Inc ($265k), Children's Theatre of Charleston ($115k).

Does Fund for the Arts fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Fund for the Arts?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation, Maier Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is Fund for the Arts based?

Fund for the Arts is based in WV.

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West Virginia · Public charity

Fund for the Arts

Accumulation of resources and funds from donors and allocating such funds in support of artistic and educational endeavors

$175k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 11
Grants FY2024: 9
Organizations funded FY2023: 0%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $12,719
Largest grant, FY2024: $48,515
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 12; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $340k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Fund for the Arts funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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
FY2024still arriving	11	$175k	0%
FY2023	9	$155k	0%
FY2022	10	$160k	0%
FY2021	11	$165k	0%
FY2020	12	$165k	0%
FY2019	12	$158k	0%
FY2018	9	$132k	0%
FY2017	12	$153k	n/a

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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 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.3M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of Wv Inc	$392,662	8	1%
West Virginia Symphony Orchestra Inc	$264,928	8	2%
Children's Theatre of Charleston	$114,516	8	17%
Charleston Light Opera Guild Inc	$96,369	8	7%
Charleston Ballet Inc	$91,130	8	4%
West Virginia Youth Symphony Inc	$85,658	8	13%
River City Youth Ballet Ensemble	$55,907	8	13%
Kanwaha Valley Friends of Old-Time Music and Dance	$50,137	8	21%
Womansong Inc	$38,831	7	n/a
Charleston Chamber Music Society Inc	$32,717	6	n/a

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All grantees of Fund for the Arts by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of Wv Inc	$392,662	8	1%
West Virginia Symphony Orchestra Inc	$264,928	8	2%
Children's Theatre of Charleston	$114,516	8	17%
Charleston Light Opera Guild Inc	$96,369	8	7%
Charleston Ballet Inc	$91,130	8	4%
West Virginia Youth Symphony Inc	$85,658	8	13%
River City Youth Ballet Ensemble	$55,907	8	13%
Kanwaha Valley Friends of Old-Time Music and Dance	$50,137	8	21%
Womansong Inc	$38,831	7	n/a
Charleston Chamber Music Society Inc	$32,717	6	n/a
Charleston Civic Chorus Inc	$32,406	6	n/a
Kanawha Players	$8,038	3	23%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fund for the Arts supplied at peak.

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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 9.

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.

The Greater Kanawha Valley FoundationWV17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Maier Foundation Inc · 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.

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About Fund for the Arts

How much does Fund for the Arts give?: Fund for the Arts reported 11 grants totaling $175,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Fund for the Arts fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (100%).
Who are Fund for the Arts's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences of Wv Inc ($393k), West Virginia Symphony Orchestra Inc ($265k), Children's Theatre of Charleston ($115k).
Does Fund for the Arts fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fund for the Arts?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation, Maier Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Fund for the Arts based?: Fund for the Arts is based in WV.