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South Arts Inc

South arts strengthens the south through advancing excellence in the arts by presenting programs and connecting with state arts agencies in the region.

$10M
Granted FY2025still arriving
233
Grants FY2025still arriving
54
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$19MEducation$424kEnvironment$303kHuman Services$283kRecreation & Sports$148kCommunity Improvement$117kFood & Nutrition$105kPhilanthropy$89kOther$0
02FY2025 · 233 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 233 grants below total $9,253,512 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $10,400,732 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,147,220 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k45 grants · $307k
  • $10k–50k100 grants · $2.5M
  • $50k–250k88 grants · $6.4M
$36,266
Median grant
54
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ballet After Dark Inc$130,000
Wyandotte Nation of Kansas Inc$130,000
South Sudanese Foundation$130,000
Border Youth Tennis Exchange$126,972
The Indy Convergence INC$122,000
The Laundromat Project$117,000
North Carolina Arts Council$99,019
The Beautiful Project Inc$98,750
Ko-Thi Inc$97,500
Phamaly Theatre Company$97,500
Indigenous Performance Productions$97,500
Working Classroom$96,706
PRISMID Inc$96,359
NorthStar Church of the Arts Inc$94,889
Dancing Grounds$93,169
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $612k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Southeast Asian Coalition of Central Massachusetts Inc: $59k → 11%Centro De Cultura Arte Trabajo Y Educacion: $59k → 7%Creative Citizen Studios: $48k → 11%Koreatown Youth and Community Center Inc: $88k → 14%Art Spark Texas: $53k → 10%ALABAMA BLUES PROJECT: $8k → 17%Healing Broken Circles Inc: $65k → 15%Sam & Devorah Foundation for Trans Youth: $59k → 4%Sacred Pipe Resource Center: $55k → 10%Special Needs Support Center of the Upper Valley: $48k → 9%HARRISBURG CULTURAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER INC: $6k → 14%Cowan Community Action Group Inc: $15k → 29%CLINTON COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CORPORATION: $25k → 23%COWAN COMMUNITY ACTION GROUP INC: $10k → 29%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC: $7k → 14%COLABORATIVA LA MILPA: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 129 repeat orgs$9.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

129 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 152 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

129
176

Total granted

$10M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+4%

Still filing today

78%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

  • TC
    TRUE COLORS THEATRE COMPANY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $398k · revenue +1%
  • NC
    North Carolina Arts Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $359k · revenue +392%
  • BB
    B B KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERPRETIVE CENTER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $315k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • NO
    NASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +83%
  • MM
    MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -17%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +66%

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.

1
State of the Arts Productions
Arts & Culture
2
Atlanta Contempory Art Center Inc

Dedicated to the creation, presentation and advancement of contemporary art through its exhibitions, educational programming and studio art program.

Arts & Culture
3
Artnoir Inc

ARTNOIR is a global collective and a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to celebrate and highlight the work of creatives of color from around the world while catalyzing cultural equity across the arts and culture industries.…

Arts & Culture
4
International Cultural Arts Network
Arts & Culture
5
The Black Literacy and Arts Collaborative Project
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6
(402) Arts Collective

Cultivating a vibrant network of artists who create community and impact culture.

Arts & Culture
7
Arts Southeast Inc

To make savannah a destination for art and culture in the southeast by supporting established and emerging artists, engaging a diverse community with creative programming, and developing awareness and appreciation of the arts.

Arts & Culture
8
Metropolitan Arts Center

To cultivate the arts in Jefferson County and the State of Alabama.

Arts & Culture
9
Consortium for Art and Culture in America

The Consortium will advance the arts and culture by educating the public, policy makers, government leaders and others on the salience of the sector across society and government.

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10
Sumter County Fine Arts Council

Cultural enrichment through arts programs

Arts & Culture
11
District of Columbia Arts Center

The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…

Arts & Culture
12
Community Arts Association in Newton County Inc

The mission of the arts association in newton county is to encourage youth and adults in the community to participate in the arts both as audience and as artists and to present world-class artists to all the citizens of the metro atlanta…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Atlantic Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Paramount Theatre Foundation the Paramount Theatre Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Arts CentersIndependent K-12 SchoolsLocal History MuseumsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Environmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Public Library OperationsAffordable Housing Construc…Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity College Foundatio…Dance Arts OrganizationsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%19%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%20%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%4/455
the rest of the field
13%
240,392/1,819,110

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

381 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. 381 of the 459 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.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
98
Early backer (in before they grew)
375/381
Grantees still filing
191/381
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUE COLORS THEATRE COMPANY — $398,329 · Arts & Culture+125 more — $11,213,714 · Arts & Culture+125 moreNorth Carolina Arts Foundation — $359,019 · OtherNorth Carolina Arts Fou…CATAWBA INDIAN NATION — $270,247 · OtherCATAWBA INDIAN NATIONAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY — $234,400 · OtherAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVE…STATE OF TENNESSEE — $147,300 · OtherAlabama Jazz Hall of Fame Inc — $133,546 · OtherBORDER YOUTH TENNIS EXCHANGE INC — $126,972 · Other+38 more — $2,358,778 · Other+38 moreHINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC — $180,150 · EducationMANA MAOLI — $65,000 · EducationCAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $62,513 · EducationWESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $61,000 · EducationHelen Simoneau Danse Inc — $59,500 · EducationHOPI SCHOOL INC — $58,168 · EducationWEST MICHIGAN CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY — $51,750 · EducationCOKER UNIVERSITY — $51,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY — $34,000 · EducationKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $87,752 · Human ServicesHEALING BROKEN CIRCLES INC — $65,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA — $58,500 · Human ServicesSam & Devorah Foundation For Trans Youth — $58,500 · Human ServicesCENTRO DE CULTURA ARTE TRABAJO Y EDUCACION — $58,500 · Human ServicesSACRED PIPE RESOURCE CENTER — $55,000 · Human ServicesArt Spark Texas — $52,952 · Human ServicesSPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY — $47,650 · Human ServicesCREATIVE CITIZEN STUDIOS — $47,500 · Human ServicesSOUTH SUDANESE FOUNDATION — $130,000 · Community ImprovementCREATIVE REACTION LAB — $65,000 · Community ImprovementPUERTO RICAN INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS AND ADVOCACY INC — $50,700 · Community ImprovementBLACK BELT TREASURES — $38,000 · Community ImprovementORPHEUM THEATRE GROUP — $37,801 · Community ImprovementTALLER COMUNIDAD LA GOYCO INC — $35,000 · Community ImprovementRSA OF DANCE AND PERFORMING ARTS — $70,991 · Youth DevelopmentCHEYENNE RIVER YOUTH PROJECT INC — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentFREE SPIRIT MEDIA NFP — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOCIAL CIRKISH FOUNDATION — $32,963 · Youth DevelopmentBALLET AFTER DARK INCORPORATED — $130,000 · HealthMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER — $65,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$11,612,043Other$3,630,262Education$623,081Human Services$531,354Community Improvement$356,501Youth Development$213,954Health$195,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUE COLORS THEATRE COMPANY — $398,329 over 5y, 14% of budgetDEEP CENTER INCORPORATED — $363,766 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetNorth Carolina Arts Foundation — $359,019 over 6y, 15% of budgetCOLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE — $353,766 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetColour of Music — $349,666 over 4y, 22% of budgetJUNEBUG PRODUCTIONS INC — $343,766 over 4y, 23% of budgetDIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR — $316,510 over 4y, 18% of budgetB B KING MUSEUM AND DELTA INTERPRETIVE CENTER — $315,266 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetEFFORTS OF GRACE INC — $313,766 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetOTIS REDDING FOUNDATION INC — $313,766 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetJAZZARTS CHARLOTTE — $313,766 over 3y, 13% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR CULTURAL PRODUCTION — $313,766 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetBALLETHNIC DANCE COMPANY — $275,766 over 3y, 28% of budgetTEATRO AVANTE INC — $230,266 over 3y, 16% of budgetHINDMAN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL INC — $180,150 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetART2ACTION INC — $175,812 over 3y, 37% of budgetAPPALSHOP INC — $160,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetJUNIOR APPALACHIAN MUSICIANS INC — $147,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetASIA INSTITUTE INC — $146,991 over 3y, 20% of budgetAlabama Dance Council — $142,063 over 9y, 14% of budgetAlabama Jazz Hall of Fame Inc — $133,546 over 3y, 14% of budgetWYANDOTTE NATION OF KANSAS — $130,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetINDY CONVERGENCE INC — $122,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetAMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC — $108,543 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetDANCING GROUNDS — $108,169 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION — $100,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetMISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC — $100,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINDIGENOUS PERFORMANCE PRODUCTIONS — $97,500 over 1y, 24% of budgetNORTHSTAR CHURCH OF THE ARTS — $94,889 over 1y, 26% of budgetNational Association of Black Storytellers Inc — $94,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc — $89,118 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKOREATOWN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER — $87,752 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIndigo Arts Alliance — $87,263 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPACK PLACE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $86,119 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetFOURTH ARTS BLOCK INC — $84,232 over 1y, 15% of budgetSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND — $83,821 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetArts Connect Houston — $83,620 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetFLORIDA CULTURAL EDUCATION ALLIANCE INC — $83,100 over 3y, 43% of budgetTIDEWATER ARTS OUTREACH — $82,597 over 1y, 18% of budgetNorth Carolina Folklife Institute — $82,000 over 4y, 44% of budgetNATIONAL BLACK ARTS FESTIVAL INC — $80,209 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA — $71,419 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNative American Indian Association of Tennessee — $70,841 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW ORLEANS FILM & VIDEO SOCIETY INC — $69,273 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetNEW DIALECT — $67,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetDIMENSIONS DANCE THEATER OF MIAMI INC — $67,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budget
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.

New England Foundatio…The Andrew W Mellon F…The Mary Duke Biddle …National Performance …The Andy Warhol Found…Doris Duke Charitable…Arts Midwest Incorpor…Mississippi Humanitie…The Shubert Foundatio…The Poetry FoundationThe Bloomberg Family …Triangle Community Fo…
New England Foundation for the Arts IncorporatedMA52× affinity36 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · National Performance Network Inc · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · Arts Midwest Incorporated · Mississippi Humanities Council Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc · The Poetry Foundation · The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc

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 South Arts Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Community Partners in Action Inc — 90% of income from government
  • Mid Atlantic Arts Inc — 66% of income from government
  • 4YOUTH Productions Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Community Building Art Works — 18% of income from government
  • National Association of Black Storytellers Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Clemmons Family Farm Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Fundarte Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Company One Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Nxthvn Inc — 1% of income from government
  • ARTS4ALL Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
58report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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: 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 459 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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