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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 233 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 233 grants below total $9,253,512, the rows itemized in this filing. The $10,400,732 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,147,220 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
South Sudanese Foundation$130,000
Ballet After Dark Inc$130,000
Wyandotte Nation of Kansas Inc$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
Indigenous Performance Productions$97,500
Phamaly Theatre Company$97,500
Ko-Thi Inc$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

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:

Its 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. Its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

+18%
+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
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

  • TC
    TRUE COLORS THEATRE COMPANY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $398k · revenue +1%
  • DC
    DEEP CENTER INCORPORATED
    3× · 2023–2025 · $364k · revenue +2%
  • NC
    North Carolina Arts Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $359k · revenue +392%

Funded once

  • NO
    NASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +83%
  • HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -30%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +66%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Atlantic Arts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

381 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. 381 of the 459 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
95
Early backer (in before they grew)
375/381
Grantees still filing
187/381
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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
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.

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

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 South Arts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Arts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 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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