North Carolina · Public charity
Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust
Growing and sustaining a vibrant cultural community in charlotte-mecklenburg by providing endowment management and oversight and investment expertise to build and grow permanent funds for the area's arts, science, and history organizations.
- $9.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $360,157
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,166,618
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $9.1M | 6% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $12M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $7.5M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $4.8M | 5% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $7.3M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $14M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts & Science Council Charlotte/Mecklenburg Inc | $10,203,933 | 5 | 60% |
| Mint Museum of Art Inc | $9,974,831 | 6 | 33% |
| Discovery Place Inc | $6,138,355 | 5 | 13% |
| Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation | $5,937,714 | 5 | 41% |
| North Carolina Performing Arts Center at Charlotte Foundation | $4,166,637 | 6 | 4% |
| The Childrens Theatre of Charlotte Inc | $3,833,228 | 6 | 22% |
| Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Society Inc | $3,683,083 | 6 | 6% |
| McColl Center for Art Innovation | $2,390,789 | 6 | 66% |
| Museum of the New South Inc | $2,153,254 | 6 | 24% |
| Wing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary | $1,788,275 | 6 | 40% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Arts & Science Council Charlotte/Mecklenburg Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Emc Arts Inc · Arts Sciences & Cultural Council of Charlotte Mecklenburg Inc · The Dickson Foundation Inc · Albemarle Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · The Presbyterian Hospital · Dowd Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide
How this is measured
About Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust
- How much does Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust give?
- Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust reported 16 grants totaling $9,180,612 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (96%), Environment (3%), Animals (0%).
- Who are Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Arts & Science Council Charlotte/Mecklenburg Inc ($10M), Mint Museum of Art Inc ($10.0M), Discovery Place Inc ($6.1M).
- Does Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Arts & Science Council Charlotte/Mecklenburg Inc, Duke Energy Foundation.
- Where is Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust based?
- Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust is based in NC.
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