· Public charity
Fund for the Arts
Accumulation of resources and funds from donors and allocating such funds in support of artistic and educational endeavors
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AVAMPATO DISCOVERY MUSEUM - CLAY CENTER | $48,515 |
| WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $33,647 |
| CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CHARLESTON | $16,238 |
| CHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD INC | $13,331 |
| CHARLESTON BALLET | $13,313 |
| WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $12,719 |
| RIVER CITY YOUTH BALLET | $8,687 |
| FRIENDS OF OLD TIME MUSIC | $8,116 |
| CHARLESTON CIVIC CHORUS | $6,824 |
| CHARLESTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY | $6,824 |
| WOMANSONG CHORALE | $6,786 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- CCCLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC8× · 2017–2024 · $393k · revenue +37%
- WVWEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +0%
- CTCHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CHARLESTON8× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +201%
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To present ballet/dance programs.
Performs classical music for the community
Performing Public Concerts
To foster an appreciation for chamber music and other classical music and to enrich the cultural life of our community.
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World class chamber music concerts in North Carolina
To elevate the art of dance through wellness, performance, education, and community outreach
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
To provide small ensemble chamber music perfs
City Center Ballet is dedicated to realizing the full potential of ballet dancers through outstanding preparation in classical ballet and exceptional performance opportunities with professional dancers. Within the company and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charleston Ballet Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kanwaha Valley Friends of Old-Time Music and Dance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CHARLESTON ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITY YOUTH BALLET ENSEMBLE ↗
- Who funds KANWAHA VALLEY FRIENDS OF OLD-TIME MUSIC AND DANCE ↗
- Who funds KANAWHA PLAYERS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Maier Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organization Fund for the Arts 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.
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 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.