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Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc

To promote arts in the csra through community events, weekly radio show, and marketing campaign. Coordinate diverse community events, manage art grants for the city of augusta. Public art agency for the city of augusta, manages the public art master plan.

$102k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Itemized grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$86k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$6,145
Largest grant, FY2024
$13,529
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$469k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$86k0%
FY202312$186k8%
FY20226$36k17%
FY20219$51k11%
FY20206$40k33%
FY20198$62k0%
FY201810$72k40%
FY20179$66kn/a
100% 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$580kPhilanthropy$19k

Top grantees

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

Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Augusta Players Inc$60,41873%
Augusta Westobou Festival Inc$59,72477%
Augusta Mini Theatre Inc$56,62764%
Morris Museum of Art$47,52383%
Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc$44,01171%
Augusta Symphony Inc$42,32841%
Storyland Theatre$41,19356%
Barefoot Productions Inc$37,4403n/a
The Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art Inc$36,90363%
Sacred Heart Cultural Center Inc$23,67824%
Dance Augusta Inc$20,25025%
Arts and Heritage Center of North Augusta$15,000113%
Imperial Community Theatre Inc$12,60022%
Augusta Chorale Inc$12,2482n/a
Augusta Choral Society Inc$12,05625%
Le Chat Noir Inc$10,68827%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($67k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAugusta Players Inc: $60,418 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetAugusta Westobou Festival Inc: $59,724 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetAugusta Mini Theatre Inc: $56,627 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetMorris Museum of Art: $47,523 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetJessye Norman School of the Arts Inc: $44,011 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetAugusta Symphony Inc: $42,328 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetStoryland Theatre: $41,193 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetThe Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art Inc: $36,903 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetSacred Heart Cultural Center Inc: $23,678 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetDance Augusta Inc: $20,250 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetArts and Heritage Center of North Augusta: $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetImperial Community Theatre Inc: $12,600 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetAugusta Choral Society Inc: $12,056 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetLe Chat Noir Inc: $10,688 over 2y, 7.3% of budget

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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 14.

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 Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area IncGA34.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc · The Knox Foundation · Augusta Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc Dba Destination Augusta · Creel-Harison Foundation Inc · Cleon W Mauldin Fnd Trust · Porter Fleming Fdn Tr Ua · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc

How much does Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc give?
Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc reported 12 itemized grants totaling $86,498, out of $101,710 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (97%), Philanthropy (3%).
Who are Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Augusta Players Inc ($60k), Augusta Westobou Festival Inc ($60k), Augusta Mini Theatre Inc ($57k).
Does Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for the Central Savannah River Area Inc, The Knox Foundation, Augusta Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc Dba Destination Augusta.
Where is Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc based?
Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc is based in GA.

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 18 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $104k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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