How much does The Arts Council Inc give?

The Arts Council Inc reported 38 itemized grants totaling $1,190,897, out of $1,753,724 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Arts Council Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (69%), Community Improvement (20%), Human Services (4%).

Who are The Arts Council Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Gladness Partners LLC ($956k), Winston-Salem Symphony Association ($412k), North Carolina Black Repertory Company Inc ($365k).

Does The Arts Council Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Arts Council Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Winston-Salem Foundation, Reynolds American Foundation, Twin City Development Foundation.

Where is The Arts Council Inc based?

The Arts Council Inc is based in NC.

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North Carolina · Public charity

The Arts Council Inc

The organizational mission is to support and advance the legacy of innovation in and access to the arts as a core community value, by providing grants and venues for artists and art organizations to practice and execute their art form in facilties that are efficiently and effectively operated, and to create an environment in which the…

$1.8M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 38
Itemized grants FY2025: 43
Organizations funded FY2024: 23%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.2M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $29,685
Largest grant, FY2025: $125,000
Organizations funded a year: 21 to 43; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $11M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations The Arts Council Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEducationReligionHuman ServicesOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	38	$1.2M	16%
FY2024	43	$1.7M	23%
FY2023	40	$1.2M	40%
FY2022	23	$1.3M	26%
FY2021	21	$922k	29%
FY2020	22	$479k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$3.9MCommunity Improvement$1.1MHuman Services$226kEducation$171kYouth Development$147kEmployment$55kPublic Benefit$50kPhilanthropy$21k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Gladness Partners LLC	$955,700	3	n/a
Winston-Salem Symphony Association	$411,808	6	3%
North Carolina Black Repertory Company Inc	$365,394	6	12%
SECCA Foundation	$320,029	6	8%
The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem Inc	$285,113	5	20%
The Sawtooth School for Visual Art	$240,953	5	8%
Riverrun International Film Festival	$217,037	5	11%
Piedmont Opera Inc	$213,542	6	6%
Piedmont Craftsmen Inc	$204,104	6	16%
Authoring Action	$180,550	6	17%

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All grantees of The Arts Council Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Gladness Partners LLC	$955,700	3	n/a
Winston-Salem Symphony Association	$411,808	6	3%
North Carolina Black Repertory Company Inc	$365,394	6	12%
SECCA Foundation	$320,029	6	8%
The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem Inc	$285,113	5	20%
The Sawtooth School for Visual Art	$240,953	5	8%
Riverrun International Film Festival	$217,037	5	11%
Piedmont Opera Inc	$213,542	6	6%
Piedmont Craftsmen Inc	$204,104	6	16%
Authoring Action	$180,550	6	17%
Winston Salem Forsyth County Schools	$178,746	5	n/a
1 Love Festival	$168,782	2	n/a
Triad Cultural Arts Inc	$164,691	4	26%
Bookmarks Inc	$161,972	5	3%
Reynolda House Inc	$157,846	6	1%
Downtown Winston-Salem Community Cinema	$133,092	6	5%
Winston Salem Delta Fine Arts Inc	$131,000	6	20%
Center for Creative Economy	$125,001	3	22%
Action4equity	$115,297	3	2%
Rebeca Segebre Ministries Inc	$114,994	3	78%
Hispanic League	$111,899	4	17%
Royal Curtain Drama Guild Inc	$105,000	3	n/a
Muse Winston-Salem	$101,673	2	1%
High Point Ballet	$100,800	4	22%
Tre 4 Center of Fine Arts Inc	$98,367	2	n/a
Piedmont Wind Symphony	$95,729	3	18%
Winston-Salem Mixxer Inc	$90,400	4	8%
University of North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation Inc	$82,489	3	1%
Creative Center of North Carolina	$75,148	2	61%
Dose Collective Corp	$74,072	2	31%
Arts District of Winston-Salem	$73,450	3	n/a
Senior Services Inc	$69,305	2	0%
The Cmpnd	$65,995	2	n/a
Korner's Folly Foundation Inc	$56,975	3	3%
Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance Inc	$53,331	4	3%
The Afas Group	$50,000	2	n/a
Old Salem Inc	$47,820	2	1%
Wake Forest University	$34,500	1	0%
University of North Carolina School of the Arts	$34,336	1	n/a
Hymns for Him Conference	$34,000	1	88%
The Enrichment Center an Affiliated Chapter of the Arc	$32,400	2	1%
The Dream School	$30,644	2	n/a
Songbird Supperclub	$30,000	2	n/a
Cashmere Baby Expo	$27,980	1	n/a
Thankful Heritage Museum Inc	$26,300	1	n/a
Kernersville Little Theatre Inc	$25,500	2	15%
Piedmont Jazz Alliance	$25,000	2	n/a
Kaleideum	$25,000	2	0%
Carolina Music Ways Music Heritage Resource Group	$24,820	3	n/a
Creative Corridors Coalition	$24,357	1	n/a
Music Carolina	$22,700	3	21%
Happy Hill Neighborhood Association INC	$20,001	2	24%
Mona Associates Design LLC	$20,000	1	n/a
Art Shac Inc	$20,000	2	13%
Red Hawks American Indian Educational and Culture	$20,000	1	33%
Living Rhythms	$18,000	2	n/a
Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership Inc	$16,000	2	1%
The North Carolina Writers' Network Inc	$15,000	1	6%
6AM City LLC	$12,500	1	n/a
United Arts Council of Greensboro Inc	$12,100	1	1%
Spring Theatre	$10,000	1	16%
Camelcity Playhouse	$10,000	1	10%
North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation	$8,500	1	0%
Artpop	$8,500	1	4%
Krossroads Playhouse Inc	$7,290	1	67%
Associated Artists of Winston-Salem Inc	$6,030	1	29%

The Arts Council Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 47.

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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.

The Winston-Salem FoundationNC60.6× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · Twin City Development Foundation · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · Strickland Family Foundation Cynthia a S Graham · Flow Foundation Inc · Reynolds Foundation 186-8803582 · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Kurtz Family Foundation · Handson Northwest North Carolina · The Kooken Family Foundation · Forsyth Memorial Hospital 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 The Arts Council Inc

How much does The Arts Council Inc give?: The Arts Council Inc reported 38 itemized grants totaling $1,190,897, out of $1,753,724 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Arts Council Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (69%), Community Improvement (20%), Human Services (4%).
Who are The Arts Council Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Gladness Partners LLC ($956k), Winston-Salem Symphony Association ($412k), North Carolina Black Repertory Company Inc ($365k).
Does The Arts Council Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Arts Council Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Winston-Salem Foundation, Reynolds American Foundation, Twin City Development Foundation.
Where is The Arts Council Inc based?: The Arts Council Inc is based in NC.