North Carolina · Public charity
Rowan Arts Council Inc
To raise funds for cultural arts for arts & cultural organizations within rowan county. To grant out funds to arts & cultural organizations for the creative arts, advance arts education and development of the salisbury/rowan cultural community to its greatest potential.
- $162k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $106k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $18,188
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,688
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 10
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Rowan Arts Council Inc 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.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $106k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $91k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $101k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $73k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $263k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piedmont Players Theatre Inc | $145,341 | 5 | 15% |
| Salisbury Symphony Inc | $139,753 | 5 | 14% |
| Waterworks Visual Arts Center Inc | $136,940 | 5 | 12% |
| Lee Street Theatre | $134,128 | 5 | 10% |
| City of Salisbury | $21,463 | 2 | n/a |
| Art & Soul Rowan Inc | $15,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Historic Salisbury Foundation Inc | $8,900 | 1 | 2% |
| Town of East Spencer | $8,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Destiny Stone-Music House | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sabrina Bougie Styles Vibes | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piedmont Players Theatre Inc | $145,341 | 5 | 15% |
| Salisbury Symphony Inc | $139,753 | 5 | 14% |
| Waterworks Visual Arts Center Inc | $136,940 | 5 | 12% |
| Lee Street Theatre | $134,128 | 5 | 10% |
| City of Salisbury | $21,463 | 2 | n/a |
| Art & Soul Rowan Inc | $15,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Historic Salisbury Foundation Inc | $8,900 | 1 | 2% |
| Town of East Spencer | $8,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Destiny Stone-Music House | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sabrina Bougie Styles Vibes | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Happy Roots Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
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 · Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc · The Hurley-Trammell Foundation · The Wallace Family Foundation Inc · The Goodman Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Rowan Arts Council Inc
- How much does Rowan Arts Council Inc give?
- Rowan Arts Council Inc reported 7 itemized grants totaling $106,252, out of $161,851 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Rowan Arts Council Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (96%), Youth Development (1%), Public Benefit (1%).
- Who are Rowan Arts Council Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Piedmont Players Theatre Inc ($145k), Salisbury Symphony Inc ($140k), Waterworks Visual Arts Center Inc ($137k).
- Does Rowan Arts Council Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rowan Arts Council Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Margaret C Woodson Foundation Inc, The Hurley-Trammell Foundation.
- Where is Rowan Arts Council Inc based?
- Rowan Arts Council Inc is based in NC.
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