How much did GREATER CHARLOTTE CULTURAL TRUST grant in FY2023?

GREATER CHARLOTTE CULTURAL TRUST reported 23 grants totaling $7,536,316 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is GREATER CHARLOTTE CULTURAL TRUST based?

GREATER CHARLOTTE CULTURAL TRUST is based in NC.

GREATER CHARLOTTE CULTURAL TRUST

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

GREATER CHARLOTTE CULTURAL TRUST

The GREATER CHARLOTTE CULTURAL TRUST manages charitable permanent funds in support of the arts & science council charlotte/mecklenburg and its cultural partners.

$7.5M

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$1.4M

Largest

01What you fund

0172% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2023.

Arts & Culture$23MAnimals$996kEducation$70kOther$9.4M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

—

2021

studentsuscprivateresearchteachingprofessionalacademic

2022

—

2023

scadsavannahatlantamillioneconomic impactstudentsenvironment

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k1 grant · $7k
$10k–50k10 grants · $136k
$50k–250k2 grants · $339k
$250k+10 grants · $7.1M

$144,000

Median grant

States reached

$214M

Total assets

Largest grants

MINT MUSEUM$1,395,649
DISCOVERY PLACE INC$1,310,068
BECHTLER MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$987,206
NORTH CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION$829,067
CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CHARLOTTE$600,000
CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC$550,073
LEVINE MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH$388,878
MCCOLL CENTER FOR ART INNOVATION$384,672
WING HAVEN FOUNDATION INC$308,594
HARVEY B GANTT CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTS & CULTURE$298,551
CHARLOTTE BALLET$194,569
ARTS & SCIENCE COUNCIL$144,000
OPERA CAROLINA$21,898
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$20,000
POINT PARK UNIVERSITY$20,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 1% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$33M · 23 repeat orgs$162k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$33M

$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%

+23%

Still filing today

78%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsOther

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

MM
MINT MUSEUM
4× · 2020–2023 · $3.8M · revenue +44%
BM
BECHTLER MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
3× · 2020–2023 · $3.4M · revenue +24% · 36% of their budget
NC
NORTH CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION
4× · 2020–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +21%

Funded once

MM
MINT MUSEUM AUXILIARY
one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -21% · 36% of their budget
JS
JUILLIARD SCHOOL
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +23%
RU
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2020 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture

The University of the Arts

Advancing human creativity by educating interdisciplinary artists, performers, makers, & writers.

Education

The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

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Greenville Institute of the Arts

Leaf Institute of Art & Vocation is a unique community non-profit organization with focus on faith and work integration, thoughtful cultural events, and arts education.

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Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

The Center for the Performing Arts at

To present a diverse offering of performing arts and educational programs.

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

The conservatory offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate musical education.

Education

The Contemporary Arts Center

The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.

Arts & Culture

Contemporary Arts Center

To provide public access to contemporary art. The Contemporary Arts Center is a multi-disciplinary arts center that is dedicated to the presentation, production, and promotion of the arts of our time.

Arts & Culture

Berggruen Institute

Education

North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation

The north carolina museum of art highlights the following programming, exhibition and initiatives; in the last year the museum added 41 works of art with expansions in the american collection, contemporary acquisitions and african art.…

Arts & Culture

The Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, a not-for-profit corporation, is both a museum and an institution of higher education that exists to provide appreciation and education in visual fine arts and design.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mint Museum of Art Inc and the most unlike its peers is Point Park University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/22

Grantees still filing

15/22

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$22,721,961Other$9,399,329Animals$996,223Education$70,000

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.

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.

Foundation for the CarolinasNC46.3× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · Arts & Science Council · Emc Arts Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Dickson Foundation Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · Ibm International Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · John S and James L Knight 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 organisation GREATER CHARLOTTE CULTURAL TRUST 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MCCOLL CENTER FOR ART INNOVATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 510195015 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MCCOLL CENTER FOR ART INNOVATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 66% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust?

Find your warmest path to Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GREATER CHARLOTTE CULTURAL TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust?

More from the funding graph

GREATER CHARLOTTE CULTURAL TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust?

More from the funding graph