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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 FY2025(still arriving)
233
Itemized grants FY2025
69
Organizations funded FY2024
35%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$9.3M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$36,266
Largest grant, FY2025
$130,000
Organizations funded a year
23 to 124
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
54
Total assets, FY2025
$18M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations South Arts Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving231$9.2M66%
FY202469$2.5M35%
FY2023101$3.3M58%
FY2022124$1.2M56%
FY202189$2.5M79%
FY202046$733k67%
FY201923$148k0%
FY201844$357k48%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 453 grantees
All grantees of South Arts Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
True Colors Theatre Company$398,329514%
Deep Center Incorporated$363,76637%
North Carolina Arts Foundation$359,019615%
Collage Dance Collective$353,76645%
Colour of Music$349,666422%
Junebug Productions Inc$343,766423%
Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator$316,510418%
B B King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center$315,26639%
Efforts of Grace Inc$313,76635%
Otis Redding Foundation Inc$313,76636%
Jazzarts Charlotte$313,766313%
Mississippi Center for Cultural Production$313,76637%
Ballethnic Dance Company$275,766328%
Catawba Indian Nation$270,2473n/a
Appalachian State University$234,4008n/a
Teatro Avante Inc$230,266316%
Hindman Settlement School Inc$180,15052%
Art2action Inc$175,812337%
Appalshop Inc$160,00045%
State of Tennessee$147,3005n/a
Junior Appalachian Musicians Inc$147,000516%
Asia Institute Inc$146,991320%
Alabama Dance Council$142,063914%
Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame Inc$133,546314%
South Sudanese Foundation$130,0001n/a
Wyandotte Nation of Kansas$130,000160%
Ballet After Dark Incorporated$130,0001n/a
Border Youth Tennis Exchange Inc$126,9721n/a
Indy Convergence Inc$122,000132%
Commonwealth of Kentucky$118,4405n/a
The Laundromat Project Inc$117,0001n/a
American Dance Festival Inc$108,54382%
Dancing Grounds$108,16922%
Nashville Opera Association$100,00014%
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc$100,00010%
National Performance Network Inc$100,00017%
Mississippi Museum of Art Inc$100,00012%
The Beautiful Project Inc$98,7501n/a
Phamaly Theatre Company$97,5001n/a
Ko-Thi Inc$97,5001n/a
Indigenous Performance Productions$97,500124%
Working Classroom Inc$96,7061n/a
Prismid Inc$96,3591n/a
Northstar Church of the Arts$94,889126%
East Tennessee State University$94,1005n/a
National Association of Black Storytellers Inc$94,000319%
Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc$89,11811%
Montgomery County Council for the Arts$88,9811n/a
Koreatown Youth and Community Center$87,75210%
Indigo Arts Alliance$87,26314%
Pack Place Performing Arts Inc$86,11991%
Positive People Association$84,3591n/a
Fourth Arts Block Inc$84,232115%
Southern Documentary Fund$83,82136%
Arts Connect Houston$83,62016%
Florida Cultural Education Alliance Inc$83,100343%
Tidewater Arts Outreach$82,597118%
North Carolina Folklife Institute$82,000444%
The Bottom$81,2121n/a
National Black Arts Festival Inc$80,20925%
Drawchange Inc$79,565139%
Community Building Art Works$76,0651n/a
Miami Dade Community Action & Human Services$73,4016n/a
Arts Center of Coastal Carolina$71,41980%
The Mundi Project$71,2951n/a
Rsa of Dance and Performing Arts$70,9911n/a
Native American Indian Association of Tennessee$70,84121%
Nc State University$70,4067n/a
New Orleans Film & Video Society Inc$69,27324%
Mississippi Arts Commission$67,5002n/a
Oakwood Arts Inc$67,4321n/a
New Dialect$67,000318%
Dimensions Dance Theater of Miami Inc$67,000310%
Marion Voices Folklife & Oral History$65,0001n/a
Latino Center of Art and Culture$65,000123%
Iowa Arts in Education Dba Artforce Iowa$65,0001n/a
Community Partners in Action Inc$65,00010%
Babes Fest Inc$65,0001n/a
Indigenous Roots$65,0001n/a
Healing Broken Circles Inc$65,0001n/a
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc$65,0001n/a
Griot Arts Inc$65,00016%
Afromundo$65,000116%
Clemmons Family Farm Inc$65,0001n/a
GUMA Guam Unique Merchandise Art Inc$65,0001n/a
Southern Fried Queer Pride Inc$65,000138%
Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc$65,000123%
Kute Inc Dba Ksut Public Radio$65,00012%
Visionaries of the Creative Arts$65,000117%
Mana Maoli$65,00015%
Nxthvn Inc$65,00014%
Laramie Public Art Coalition$65,000124%
Art as Mentorship Inc$65,0001n/a
Mattie Rhodes Memorial Society D/B/A Mattie Rhodes Center$65,0001n/a
Mahogany Black Arts & Cultural Center$65,0001n/a
Pai Foundation$65,0001n/a
Creative Reaction Lab$65,0001n/a
RACE Dance Company$65,000118%
Global Lounge Incorporated$65,000121%
Front Porch Arts Collective of Boston Inc$65,00019%
Tricycle Theatre for Youth$65,0001n/a
Company One Inc$65,0001n/a
Musicambia Inc$62,953113%
Cape Fear Community College Foundation Inc$62,51351%
Western Kentucky University Foundation$61,00020%
Commonwealth Theatre Center Inc$61,00015%
Bezerk Productions$60,4001n/a
Castle of Our Skins Inc$60,25013%
Helen Simoneau Danse Inc$59,500330%
Penland School Of Craft$58,75021%
Philadelphia Folklore Project$58,5001n/a
Southeast Asian Coalition of Central Ma$58,5001n/a
Sam & Devorah Foundation For Trans Youth$58,500111%
Lion Haven St Croix Community Center Inc$58,5001n/a
Centro de Cultura Arte Trabajo y Educacion$58,500111%
Ridgelines Inc$58,5001n/a
Hopi School Inc$58,1681n/a
University of Alabama at Birmingham$57,5895n/a
Savannah Music Festivalinc$57,33322%
The Welman Project$57,2061n/a
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center$56,2001n/a
Cheyenne River Youth Project Inc$55,00012%
Sacred Pipe Resource Center$55,0001n/a
Free Spirit Media Nfp$55,00014%
First Peoples Fund$55,0001n/a
Delta State University$54,5016n/a
Art Spark Texas$52,95219%
Juneau Alaska Music Matters$52,805116%
West Michigan Center for Arts & Technology$51,75012%
Alternate RootsInc$51,08211%
Coker University$51,00070%
Puerto Rican Institute for the Arts and Advocacy Inc$50,700148%
Pine Mountain Settlement School$50,50041%
Jefferson Community & Technical College$50,1007n/a
Spoleto Festival USA Inc$50,00011%
Azubuike African American Council for the Arts$50,0001n/a
Nomadstudio Inc$50,0001n/a
Arca Images Inc$50,0001n/a
Hartbeat Ensemble Inc$50,0001n/a
North Carolina Black Repertory Company Inc$50,00015%
Freedom Quilting Bee Legacy$48,82117%
Kentucky Center for the Arts Foundation Inc$48,58340%
Studio by the Tracks Inc$47,7541n/a
Special Needs Support Center of the Upper Valley$47,65018%
Creative Citizen Studios$47,500123%
Wideman Davis Dance of New York Inc$47,000313%
Kimbilio$46,2501n/a
New Orleans Ballet Association$46,01951%
The Paramount Theatre Foundation the Paramount Theatre Foundation$45,890544%
International Bluegrass Music Association Inc$45,00024%
Walter Anderson Museum of Art Inc$44,62534%
4youth Productions Inc$44,595111%
The Watering Hole Poetry Organization$44,150115%
City of Charleston South Carolina$43,9004n/a
Kori Art$43,625164%
Arts4all Florida Inc$43,10025%
Artmix Inc$42,50015%
Western Alliance of Arts Administrators Foundation$42,00032%
Iroquois Indian Museum$41,670110%
Contemporary Arts Center$41,64750%
Fundarte Inc$41,31638%
Hub City Writers Project$40,00023%
Cucalorus Film Foundation$40,00025%
The Myrna Loy$40,00014%
Hidden Voices$40,000231%
Florida Professional Presenters Consortium Inc$40,0004n/a
Intertwine Arts Inc$38,7131n/a
Arts for All Nevada$38,10019%
Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire Inc$38,03514%
Black Belt Treasures$38,00028%
Gloster Arts Project$37,8211n/a
Orpheum Theatre Group$37,80120%
Floyd J McRee Theatre$37,5001n/a
Staibdance Inc$37,000219%
Teatro Hispano de Dallas$37,0001n/a
East Carolina University$35,6634n/a
Art Maker LLC$35,0261n/a
Taller Comunidad la Goyco Inc$35,0001n/a
International Storytelling Center$35,00013%
The Alliance for American Quilts Inc$35,00028%
Douglas Manship Sr Theatre Complex Holding Inc$34,87541%
Caldwell Fine Arts Series Inc$34,299113%
Acadiana Center for the Arts Inc$34,09141%
Duke University$34,00040%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$33,9632n/a
University of Florida$33,7564n/a
South Carolina Arts Alliance$33,60044%
Pinedale Fine Arts Council Inc$33,50019%
Social Cirkish Foundation$32,96317%
Arts Council of Central Louisiana$32,95042%
Louisiana Partnership for the Arts$32,5002n/a
Equinox Theatre Company Dba Verge Theater$32,500122%
The Union for Contemporary Art Inc$32,5001n/a
Kentuckians for the Arts$32,5002n/a
Next Generation Foundation for Street & Club Dance Culture$32,5001n/a
Queer Spectra Arts Festival$32,5001n/a
Mid Atlantic Arts Inc$32,00010%
Auburn University$30,8003n/a
Arts North Carolina Inc$30,60043%
Art Papers Inc$30,00018%
Soulsville Foundation$30,00011%
Appalachian Community Fund$30,00021%
C4 Atlanta Inc$30,0001n/a
Burnaway Inc$30,00019%
Centre College$29,78530%
Paint Memphis Inc$29,006414%
Georgia State University Foundation$28,7693n/a
Mississippi State University$28,3004n/a
Arts Access South Carolina$27,500211%
Big Ears Festival$26,50641%
Global Education Center$25,62531%
Mississippi Alliance for Arts Education$25,0001n/a
Mondo Bizarro Productions$25,00032%
Cherokee Historical Assoiciation Inc$25,0001n/a
Clinton Community Christian Corp$25,00012%
Friends of Georgians for the Arts$25,0001n/a
Cowan Community Action Group Inc$25,00022%
Germantown Performing Arts Center$24,65240%
St Mary's Episcopal School$23,36740%
North Carolina Presenters Consortium$23,32526%
Tennesseans for the Arts$23,100311%
Miami Dade College$22,5002n/a
Arts Midwest Incorporated$22,00010%
Berea College$22,00010%
New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated$22,00010%
Mid-America Arts Alliance$22,00010%
Seven Stages Inc$21,89131%
Louisville Story Program$21,25023%
New Orleans Video Access Center Inc$21,25021%
Oz Arts Inc$20,36630%
Midlands Technical College-Harbison Thea$20,2843n/a
Fox Theatre Inc F/K/A Atlanta Landmarks Inc$20,00030%
Music Maker Foundation Inc$20,00012%
The North Carolina Public Television Foundation Inc$20,00020%
Port Royal Sound Foundation$20,00011%
Statewide Organizing for Community Empowerment Resource Project$20,00021%
Berea Arts Council Inc$19,250115%
Rivercenter Inc$18,30030%
Chamber Music Raleigh Inc$18,00024%
Florida State University$18,0001n/a
Borderless Arts of Tennessee$17,50029%
Alabama Alliance for Arts Education$17,50024%
Alabama Writers Forum Inc$16,98422%
The Porch Writers Collective Inc$16,20014%
Que-Os$16,00025%
Tennessee Performing Arts Center (Tpac) Management Corporation$15,59420%
Act Up Drama$15,0001n/a
Narrative Arts$15,00015%
Pike School of Art - Mississippi$15,00012%
Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc$15,00011%
Delta Compass$15,0001n/a
Brunswick Family Assistance Agency Inc$15,00011%
Performing Arts Center Authority$15,0002n/a
21 Dreams Arts & Culture$15,0001n/a
Flux Projects Inc$15,0001n/a
Create Appalachia$15,0001n/a
Oxfilm$15,00026%
University of North Carolina School of the Arts$15,0001n/a
Blues City Cultural Center Inc$15,000116%
Actors Theatre of Louisville Inc$15,00010%
Create Birmingham$15,0001n/a
Asheville Creative Arts Inc$15,0001n/a
Tennessee Presenters Corporation$15,0002n/a
Miami Symphony Orchestra Inc$15,00011%
Arts Council of Wilson Inc$15,00021%
City of Boynton Beach$15,0001n/a
Springer Opera House Arts Associationinc$15,00010%
The Film Collaborative Inc$15,00020%
Actors Bridge Ensemble Theater of Nashville Inc$15,00015%
Out of Hand Theater$15,00012%
The Childrens Theatre of Charlotte Inc$14,70020%
City of Pompano$13,8752n/a
Jessye Norman School of the Arts Inc$13,50013%
Create Princeton$13,1252n/a
Arts for All Kentucky Inc$13,10024%
Mississippi Presenters Network$13,000111%
Miami Light Project Inc$12,80021%
Performing Arts Serving Acadiana Inc Pasa$12,75023%
Alabama School of Fine Arts Foundation$12,62521%
Broward Performing Arts Foundation Inc$12,31920%
Black Creek Arts Council Inc$12,00016%
Carolina Performing Arts Theater Group$12,0001n/a
Hilton Head Choral Society Inc$12,00016%
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Foundation$11,95420%
USA International Ballet Competition$11,66321%
International Society for the Performing Arts Foundation$11,5051n/a
South Florida State College$11,3722n/a
The Walls Project$11,25010%
The Current Media Inc$11,25012%
Vaughn Newman Dance$11,2501n/a
Shaleigh Dance Works$11,25018%
Atlanta Pride Committee Inc$11,25011%
Gilmer Arts & Heritage Association$10,00014%
Griot Collective of West Tennessee$10,0001n/a
The Carolina Wren Press Inc$10,00012%
Charlotte Center for Literary Arts Inc$10,00013%
Colaborativa La Milpa$10,00010%
Young Authors Greenhouse Inc$10,00014%
Riverrun International Film Festival$10,00012%
Cultural Arts Alliance of Walton County Inc$10,00010%
The Pat Conroy Literary Center Inc$10,00012%
Maiden Alley Cinema$10,00015%
Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc$10,00010%
Milledgeville-Baldwin County Allied Arts Inc$10,00015%
Melungeon Heritage Association Inc$10,0001n/a
Dashboard Co-Op Inc$10,00012%
Luminal Theater Corp$10,000112%
Arteria Collective$10,00013%
Desert Island Supply Co$10,00015%
Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc$10,00012%
Alabama Folklife Association Inc$10,00018%
Global Peace Film Festival Inc$10,00014%
Louisville Film Society Inc$10,0001n/a
Rare Bird$10,00016%
The Plaza Arts Center Inc$10,00012%
Desoto Arts Institute$10,0001n/a
Memphis FilmWorks Inc$10,0001n/a
Wits End Poetry$10,0001n/a
Freedom Park Conservancy$10,000127%
Downtown Winston-Salem Community Cinema$10,00011%
Carnegie Literacy Center Inc Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning$10,00011%
After School Film Institute Inc$10,00016%
Green Streets Inc$10,0001n/a
Keep Durham Beautiful Inc$10,0001n/a
The Ella Project$10,00014%
Cultural Arts Council Douglasville Douglas County$10,0001n/a
Young Aspirations Young Artists Inc$10,00011%
Florida Film Institute Inc$10,00013%
Lincoln Memorial University$10,00010%
Macon Film Festival Inc$10,00019%
Golden Isles Arts & Humanities Association Inc$10,00015%
Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema Inc$10,00011%
Bullets and Bandaids$10,0001n/a
Calhoun Gordon Arts Council Inc$10,00012%
Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival$10,00013%
O Miami Inc$10,00011%
On Location Memphis Inc$9,548113%
Clemson University$9,5001n/a
Art Section Inc$9,5001n/a
Save the Grand Theatre Inc Dba Grand Theatre-Frankfort$9,07511%
Louisville Children's Film Festival$9,0001n/a
Saint Augustine Film Society$8,1781n/a
Delta Resource Educational Associat of Mobile Foundation Inc$8,075124%
Walnut Gallery Inc$8,0001n/a
Huntsville Community Drumline Inc$8,00015%
The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation Incorporated$8,00010%
Alabama Blues Project$8,00018%
Chattanooga State Community College$7,5001n/a
Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc$7,50011%
Riverpark Center Inc$7,50010%
NC Project LEAD INC$7,50015%
Shreveport Regional Arts Council$7,50010%
Enable of Georgia Inc$7,50010%
The Bakehouse Art Complex Inc$7,5001n/a
Boyle County Schools$7,5001n/a
Art for All Mississippi$7,5001n/a
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia Inc$7,50010%
Arts Access Incorporated$7,50014%
Red River Revel Arts Festival$7,50010%
Luther F Carson Four Rivers Center Inc$7,50010%
Charleston Gaillard Management Corporation$7,50010%
Memphis Library Foundation$7,50010%
The Florida Theatre Performing Arts Cent$7,50010%
WorkingFilms Inc$7,18111%
The President Theatre Inc$7,04416%
Theater With a Mission$7,0221n/a
Nashville Jazz Workshop$7,00011%
Christian Brothers University$7,00010%
St Petersburg College Foundation Inc$7,00010%
Locate Arts TN$6,96613%
Chatterbird$6,938110%
Stove Works$6,89113%
University of Mississippi$6,7001n/a
City of Tarpon Springs$6,7001n/a
Karen Peterson and Dancers Inc$6,66614%
Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta Inc$6,54410%
North Carolina Folk Festival$6,50011%
Emerge Gallery Art Center Inc$6,50011%
Tada Foundation Inc$6,46914%
Charleston Jazz$6,37510%
The Armory Art Center Inc$6,37510%
Historic Tennessee Theatre Foundation$6,37510%
Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated$6,37510%
Carolina Theatre of Durham Inc$6,32810%
University of Southern Mississippi$6,2001n/a
Pennyroyal Arts Council Inc$6,04711%
Centennial Park Conservancy$6,02310%
Veterans Memorial & Multicultural Histories Incorporated$6,0001n/a
Dance Levels$6,0001n/a
Mickee Faust Alternative Performance Club Inc$6,00018%
South Carolina Artisans Center$6,00013%
Tupelo Ballet Inc$6,00013%
Palmetto & Luna$6,0001n/a
New Orleans Poetry Festival Inc$6,0001n/a
The Bascom Corporation$6,00010%
Ursula Smith Dance$6,0001n/a
The Wallace Center for Arts And$6,00012%
Pasco County Fine Arts Council$6,0001n/a
Rhinoleap Productions$6,00012%
Walltown Childrens Theatre$6,00012%
Highlands Art League Inc$6,0001n/a
The Arts Empowerment Project Inc$6,00012%
Goldsboro West Side Community Hist Assn Inc$6,00017%
Beaches Fine Arts Series Inc$6,00012%
Eyes on Mainstreet Inc$6,00014%
The Tuskegee Repertory Theatre Inc$6,000110%
Flagler Playhouse Inc$6,000131%
Andalusia Ballet Association$6,00012%
TheGifted Arts Inc$6,00011%
Culture Mill Inc$6,00013%
Okaloosa Arts Alliance Inc$6,0001n/a
Drum the Program Inc$6,0001n/a
Havana History & Heritage Society$6,00018%
Art Forms & Theatre Concepts$6,0001n/a
Highway Park Neighborhood Preservation & Enhance Dist Inc$6,0001n/a
Quincy Music Theatre Inc$6,00013%
Click Photography Festival$5,9501n/a
Harrisburg Cultural & Social Servic$5,91612%
Georgia Tech Research Corporation$5,90110%
University of Georgia$5,9011n/a
Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Inc$5,88810%
Uncw Research Foundation$5,87811%
Latin Community Services Inc$5,85013%
Tigertail Productions Inc$5,7751n/a
Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art Inc$5,77511%
African American Community Collaborative$5,72017%
The University of Tennessee$5,7111n/a
Bethune-Cookman University$5,66310%
Craftsmans Guild of Mississippi Inc$5,60011%
North Carolina Pottery Museum Inc$5,60012%
Arts Council of Chester County$5,56819%
Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center Inc$5,55011%
Mars Hill University$5,52710%
Page 15 Inc$5,50011%
Artspace Inc$5,42311%
Trillium Arts Inc$5,38116%
Winston Salem Delta Fine Arts Inc$5,22714%
Kentucky State Poetry Society$5,2001n/a
Djoli Kelen Inc$5,1401n/a
Newberry Opera House Foundation Inc$5,10010%
Savannah State University Foundation Inc and Subsidiaries$5,08310%
Artsrevive Community Development Co$5,05811%
Lexarts Inc$5,00010%
Hispanic League$5,0001n/a
The Museum of Art Deland Florida Inc$5,00011%
Appalachian State University3$5,0001n/a
Louisville Folk School$5,00011%
Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Inc$5,00011%
Davidson College$5,00010%
Savvy Organization Inc$5,0001n/a
The University of Al in Huntsville$5,0001n/a
Tennessee Technological University$5,0001n/a
Appalachian Artisan Center Inc$5,00010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($190k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

South Arts Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 16 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetHighlander Research & Education Center Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Performance Network Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetMississippi Museum of Art Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 budgetDrawchange Inc: $79,565 over 1y, 39% 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 budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

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

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.

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About South Arts Inc

How much does South Arts Inc give?
South Arts Inc reported 233 itemized grants totaling $9,253,512, out of $10,400,732 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 124 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does South Arts Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (92%), Education (2%), Environment (1%).
Who are South Arts Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: True Colors Theatre Company ($398k), Deep Center Incorporated ($364k), North Carolina Arts Foundation ($359k).
Does South Arts Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as South Arts Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101.
Where is South Arts Inc based?
South Arts Inc is based in GA.

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 459 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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