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Metropolitan Arts Council

The mission of the METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL is to stimulate and support artistic expression and its appreciation and enjoyment in ways that enrich all citizens, artists, cultural organizations, and communities of greenville county.

$482k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.4MHuman Services$126kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $216k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $267k
$50,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$54,750
ARTISPHERE$54,750
Individual grant recipient$53,950
SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE$52,500
GREENVILLE CHORALE$50,750
GREENVILLE THEATRE$49,250
THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE$48,750
PEACE CENTER$48,750
CENTRE STAGE$48,750
GREENVILLE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GREENVILLE CHORALE: $38k → 10%GREENVILLE CHORALE: $26k → 10%GREENVILLE CHORALE: $25k → 10%CAROLINA YOUTH SYMPHONY: $6k → 10%GREENVILLE CHORALE: $20k → 10%GREENVILLE SHAKESPEARE CO: $6k → 10%ARTISPHERE: $510k → 10%SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $58k → 10%ARTISPHERE: $55k → 10%GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $55k → 10%SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $53k → 10%ARTISPHERE: $51k → 10%THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $51k → 10%GREENVILLE THEATRE: $49k → 10%PEACE CENTER: $49k → 10%THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $49k → 10%CENTRE STAGE: $49k → 10%GREENVILLE THEATRE: $49k → 10%PEACE CENTER: $48k → 10%CENTRE STAGE: $48k → 10%GREENVILLE SYMPHONY: $48k → 10%GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $41k → 10%GREENVILLE THEATRE: $38k → 10%THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $38k → 10%THE PEACE CENTER: $38k → 10%ARTISPHERE: $38k → 10%GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $38k → 10%THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $36k → 10%THE PEACE CENTER: $36k → 10%GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $31k → 10%THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $29k → 10%ARTISPHERE: $29k → 10%ARTISPHERE: $28k → 10%GREENVILLE THEATRE: $26k → 10%GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $26k → 10%THE PEACE CENTER: $26k → 10%GREENVILLE LITTLE THEATRE: $25k → 10%THE WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $25k → 10%GREENVILLE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 10%THE PEACE CENTER: $25k → 10%GREENVILLE THEATRE: $21k → 10%GREENVILLE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 10%GREENVILLE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 10%GREENVILLE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $20k → 10%ARTISPHERE: $20k → 10%GREENVILLE LITTLE THEATRE: $19k → 10%GREENVILLE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $15k → 10%GREENVILLE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 12 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$2.6M
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-16%

Still filing today

92%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GA
    GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $730k · revenue +59% · 39% of their budget
  • GS
    GREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $238k · revenue +31%
  • GT
    GREENVILLE THEATRE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $227k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • BS
    BACH SOCIETY OF CHARLESTON
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue -16%
  • FP
    FOOTHILLS PHILHARMONICgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +82%
  • WE
    WITS END POETRY
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
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2
Creative Arts Community in Greenville aka Greenville Theatre Works

Community theatre

Arts & Culture
3
Greensboro Opera Company

Greensboro opera is a community-based company dedicated to fostering the growth of opera and to presenting professional productions of the highest artistic caliber for the enjoyment, education, and enrichment of the triad region of north…

Arts & Culture
4
Greenville Art Guild
Arts & Culture
5
Music Carolina

To provide small ensemble chamber music perfs

Arts & Culture
6
Capitol Theatre of Greeneville

To be recognized as a significant cultural and entertainment asset by the local community

Arts & Culture
7
Greenville Youth Chorale

Youth choir serving Upstate of South Carolina

Arts & Culture
8
Greenville Light Opera Works

Glow strives to be the country's most innovative leader in the fusion of opera, operetta and musical theatre. glow seeks to produce nationally recognized work that is socially relevant, and serve as a unique example of utilizing theatre…

Arts & Culture
9
Sumter County Fine Arts Council

Cultural enrichment through arts programs

Arts & Culture
10
Greenville Concert Band

The greenville concert bands mission is to serve, enrich, and entertain the upstate of south carolina through the power of wind band music. we are dedicated to performing the finest literature and generating enthusiasm and appreciation for…

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11
Greensburg Civic Theatre

Civic theatrical production

Arts & Culture
12
Greenville Gay Mens Chorus

Representing LGBTQ+ individuals, we strive to build community, foster compassion, and inspire activism at home and around the world through our music and message.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenville Arts Festival; the most unlike its peers is Foothills Philharmonic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL: $729,955 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVALSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $263,050 · Arts & CultureSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATREGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $238,250 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONTHE WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $227,750 · Arts & CultureTHE WAREHOUSE THEATREGREENVILLE THEATRE: $226,750 · Arts & CultureGREENVILLE THEATREPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION: $221,750 · Arts & CulturePEACE CENTER FOUNDATIONCENTRE STAGE-SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $209,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRE STAGE-SOUTH CAROLINA INC+7 more: $146,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreGREENVILLE CIVIC CHORALE ASSOCIATION: $207,500 · OtherGREENVILLE CIVIC…Individual grant recipient: $152,891 · OtherIndividual grant…+2 more: $12,000 · Other
Arts & Culture$2,262,505Other$372,391

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL: $729,955 over 7y, 39% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $263,050 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetGREENVILLE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $238,250 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTHE WAREHOUSE THEATRE: $227,750 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetGREENVILLE THEATRE: $226,750 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetPEACE CENTER FOUNDATION: $221,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRE STAGE-SOUTH CAROLINA INC: $209,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetGREENVILLE CIVIC CHORALE ASSOCIATION: $207,500 over 6y, 18% of budgetTHE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $70,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetGREENVILLE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $40,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetGreenville Chautauqua Society: $12,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetFOOTHILLS PHILHARMONIC: $6,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCarolina Youth Symphony: $6,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGREENVILLE COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE GREENVILLE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $6,000 over 1y, 11% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Elbert W Rogers Found…Ibm International Fou…Publix Super Markets …Daniel-Mickel Foundat…The Jolley FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Elbert W Rogers FoundationSC20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Elbert W Rogers Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Metropolitan Arts Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Metropolitan Arts Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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.

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