· Public charity
Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc
To promote arts in the csra through community events, weekly radio show, and marketing campaign.
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.
The 12 grants below total $86,498 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $101,710 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,212 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUGUSTA MINI THEATER | $13,529 |
| BAREFOOT PRODUCTIONS | $11,000 |
| AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL INC | $9,865 |
| JESSYE NORMAN SCHOOL OF ARTS | $6,210 |
| MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART | $6,146 |
| THE AUGUSTA SYMPHONY | $6,145 |
| THE AUGUSTA PLAYERS | $6,081 |
| GERTRUDE HERBERT INSTITUTE OF | $5,953 |
| RON COLTON BALLET DANCE | $5,825 |
| CREATIVE IMPRESSIONS | $5,440 |
| AUGUSTA CHORALE | $5,248 |
| AUGUSTA CHORAL SOCIETY | $5,056 |
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 17%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
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.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- APAUGUSTA PLAYERS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +183%
- AMAugusta Mini Theatre Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +132%
- JNJessye Norman School of the Arts Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- AAARTS AND HERITAGE CENTER OF NORTH AUGUSTAone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -5%
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.
Cultural enrichment through arts programs
The primary purpose of the augusta arts council, inc., is to preserve and maintain the historic stand alone theatre experience for future generations. all activities promoted are designed to preserve and maintain the historic augusta…
To restore and operate the historic augusta colonial theater for the artistic, educational, and charitable benefit of the community. the colonial theater will be a far-reaching, viable, restored historic theater in the downtown of our…
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…
The mission of the arts association in newton county is to encourage youth and adults in the community to participate in the arts both as audience and as artists and to present world-class artists to all the citizens of the metro atlanta…
The aurora theatre is committed to producing quality, professional theatre for the southeast, north georgia, and our most ardent supporters, the residents of gwinnett county. we will serve these communities by offering entertainment that…
Augusta heritage center in elkins, west virginia, united states, is a non- profit organization which fosters the scholarly study and practice of traditional arts in music, dance, craft, and folklore.
To foster appreciation, understanding, and love of the performing arts by providing experiences that entertain, educate, and enrich the life of the community.
The SouthEastern Young Artists brings artists and community together by putting on performances for the public. Additionally artists will go into local schools and education institutions to do workshops around music and social emotional…
To promote the arts, play a pivotal role in the cultural and economic advancement of the region, and inspire the community to engage in appreciation of arts and music at all levels.
Promote cultural activities in colleton county, south carolina
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Augusta Players Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sacred Heart Cultural Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 18 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 AUGUSTA PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Augusta Mini Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds MORRIS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds STORYLAND THEATRE ↗
- Who funds BAREFOOT PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GERTRUDE HERBERT INSTITUTE OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE AUGUSTA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS AND HERITAGE CENTER OF NORTH AUGUSTA ↗
- Who funds IMPERIAL COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTA CHORAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LE CHAT NOIR INC ↗
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 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
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 Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc 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.