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Fund for the Arts

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

$175k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$49k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.3M
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $138k
$12,719
Median grant
1
States reached
$340k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY$6,824
CHARLESTON CIVIC CHORUS$6,824
WOMANSONG CHORALE$6,786
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%RIVER CITY YOUTH BALLET: $9k → 18%RIVER CITY YOUTH BALLET: $8k → 18%RIVER CITY YOUTH BALLET: $7k → 18%RIVER CITY YOUTH BALLET: $7k → 18%RIVER CITY YOUTH BALLET: $7k → 18%RIVER CITY YOUTH BALLET: $7k → 18%RIVER CITY YOUTH BALLET: $6k → 18%RIVER CITY YOUTH BALLET: $4k → 18%KANAWHA PLAYERS THEATRE: $3k → 18%KANAWHA PLAYERS THEATRE: $2k → 18%AVAMPATO DISCOVERY MUSEUM - CLAY CENTER: $54k → 18%AVAMPATO DISCOVERY MUSEUM - CLAY CENTER: $54k → 18%AVAMPATO DISCOVERY MUSEUM - CLAY CENTER: $49k → 18%AVAMPATO DISCOVERY MUSEUM - CLAY CENTER: $49k → 18%AVAMPATO DISCOVERY MUSEUM - CLAY CENTER: $49k → 18%AVAMPATO DISCOVERY MUSEUM - CLAY CENTER: $49k → 18%AVAMPATO DISCOVERY MUSEUM - CLAY CENTER: $47k → 18%AVAMPATO DISCOVERY MUSEUM - CLAY CENTER: $41k → 18%CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CHARLESTON: $16k → 18%CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CHARLESTON: $15k → 18%CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CHARLESTON: $15k → 18%CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CHARLESTON: $15k → 18%CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CHARLESTON: $14k → 18%CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CHARLESTON: $14k → 18%CHARLESTON BALLET: $13k → 18%CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CHARLESTON: $13k → 18%CHARLESTON BALLET: $12k → 18%CHARLESTON BALLET: $12k → 18%CHARLESTON BALLET: $12k → 18%CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CHARLESTON: $12k → 18%CHARLESTON BALLET: $11k → 18%CHARLESTON BALLET: $11k → 18%CHARLESTON BALLET: $10k → 18%CHARLESTON BALLET: $10k → 18%KANAWHA PLAYERS: $3k → 18%CHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD INC: $13k → 18%CHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD INC: $13k → 18%CHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD INC: $13k → 18%CHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD INC: $13k → 18%CHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD INC: $12k → 18%CHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD INC: $12k → 18%CHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD INC: $11k → 18%CHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD INC: $10k → 18%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 12 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
0

Total granted

$1.3M
$0

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $393k · revenue +37%
  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +0%
  • CT
    CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CHARLESTON
    8× · 2017–2024 · $115k · revenue +201%

Funded once

    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
    Concert Ballet of Virginia

    To present ballet/dance programs.

    Arts & Culture
    2
    Warminster Symphony Society

    Performs classical music for the community

    —
    3
    Bach Society of Charleston

    Performing Public Concerts

    Arts & Culture
    4
    Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre
    Arts & Culture
    5
    Chamber Music Society of Williamsburg

    To foster an appreciation for chamber music and other classical music and to enrich the cultural life of our community.

    —
    6
    Columbus Cultural Youth Orchestra
    Arts & Culture
    7
    Charleston Youth Company Inc

    Encourage develop and utilize artistic t

    —
    8
    Chamber Music Wilmington

    World class chamber music concerts in North Carolina

    Arts & Culture
    9
    Charlottesville Ballet

    To elevate the art of dance through wellness, performance, education, and community outreach

    Arts & Culture
    10
    Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

    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…

    Arts & Culture
    11
    Music Carolina

    To provide small ensemble chamber music perfs

    Arts & Culture
    12
    City Center Ballet Inc

    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…

    Arts & Culture
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charleston Ballet Inc; 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.
    04the grantee network

    9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

    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 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.

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

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    3
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    8/9
    Grantees still filing
    6/9
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    CLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC: $392,662 · Arts & CultureCLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INCWEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $264,928 · Arts & CultureWEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCCHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CHARLESTON: $114,516 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CHARLESTONCHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD INC: $96,369 · Arts & CultureCHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD INCCHARLESTON BALLET INC: $91,130 · Arts & CultureCHARLESTON BALLET INCWEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $85,658 · Arts & CultureWEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY INCRIVER CITY YOUTH BALLET ENSEMBLE: $55,907 · Arts & CultureKANWAHA VALLEY FRIENDS OF OLD-TIME MUSIC AND DANCE: $50,137 · OtherKANWAHA VALLEY…WOMANSONG INC: $38,831 · OtherWOMANSONG INCCHARLESTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC: $32,717 · OtherCHARLESTON CHA…CHARLESTON CIVIC CHORUS INC: $32,406 · OtherCHARLESTON CIV…KANAWHA PLAYERS: $8,038 · Other
    Arts & Culture$1,101,170Other$162,129

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

    25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLAY CENTER FOR THE ARTS & SCIENCES OF WV INC: $392,662 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $264,928 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CHARLESTON: $114,516 over 8y, 17% of budgetCHARLESTON LIGHT OPERA GUILD INC: $96,369 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetCHARLESTON BALLET INC: $91,130 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA YOUTH SYMPHONY INC: $85,658 over 8y, 13% of budgetRIVER CITY YOUTH BALLET ENSEMBLE: $55,907 over 8y, 13% of budgetKANWAHA VALLEY FRIENDS OF OLD-TIME MUSIC AND DANCE: $50,137 over 8y, 21% of budgetKANAWHA PLAYERS: $8,038 over 3y, 23% 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 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 ↗

    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 V…Maier Foundation IncAmazonsmile Foundation
    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.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Fund for the Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fund for the Arts. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
      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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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