· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $390k
- $250k+10 grants · $8.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINT MUSEUM | $3,166,618 |
| DISCOVERY PLACE INC | $1,223,406 |
| BECHTLER MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $838,283 |
| CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CHARLOTTE | $733,393 |
| CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC | $665,178 |
| NORTH CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION | $547,207 |
| WING HAVEN FOUNDATION INC | $432,681 |
| MCCOLL CENTER FOR ART INNOVATION | $360,157 |
| LEVINE MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH | $356,688 |
| HARVEY B GANTT CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTS & CULTURE | $268,481 |
| CHARLOTTE BALLET | $229,214 |
| CAROLINA RAPTOR CENTER INC | $160,400 |
| ARTS | $43,015 |
| OPERA CAROLINA | $22,702 |
| CHARLOTTE CHOIR SCHOOL | $15,857 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- MMMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC6× · 2020–2025 · $10.0M · revenue +112% · 33% of their budget
- DPDISCOVERY PLACE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $6.1M · revenue +61%
- AHAndreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation5× · 2020–2025 · $5.9M · revenue +0% · 41% of their budget
Funded once
- MMMint Museum Auxiliaryone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -6% · 36% of their budget
- SCSavannah College of Art and DesignIncone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +23%
- JSJUILLIARD SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +65%
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.
To resource, catalyze, and amplify how and why craft matters.
The charleston symphony's mission is to inspire and engage the community through exceptional musical performances and educational programs.
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
Redux contemporary art center is committed to fostering creativity and the cultivation of contemporary art through diverse exhibitions, affordable studio space for visual artists, meaningful education and outreach programs, and a…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wing Haven Foundation Inc Dba Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 29 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 ARTS & SCIENCE COUNCIL CHARLOTTE/MECKLENBURG INC ↗
- Who funds MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AT CHARLOTTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Theatre of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds McColl Center for Art Innovation ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE NEW SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Wing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE BALLET ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURAL AND SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Carolina Raptor Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ArtsPlus ↗
- Who funds OPERA CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds Mint Museum Auxiliary ↗
- Who funds POINT PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Choir School ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Savannah College of Art and DesignInc ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT FACTORY ↗
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: 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
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 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.
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.