· 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…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 38 grants below total $1,190,897 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,753,724 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $562,827 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 $10k7 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $752k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $383k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINSTON-SALEM FORSYTH COUNTY | $125,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN CENTER FOR CONTEMPORAR | $101,749 |
| MUSE WINSTON-SALEM | $89,425 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL | $67,211 |
| WINSTON-SALEM MIXXER INC | $35,000 |
| TRIAD CULTURAL ARTS INC | $35,000 |
| ROYAL CURTAIN DRAMA GUILD INC | $35,000 |
| COMMUNIDAD MUJER VALIOSA | $35,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $34,500 |
| CREATIVE CENTER OF NORTH CAROLINA | $34,003 |
| HYMNS FOR HIM CONFERENCE | $34,000 |
| AUTHORING ACTION | $33,500 |
| BOOKMARKS | $33,400 |
| HISPANIC LEAGUE | $33,000 |
| WINSTON-SALEM SYMPHONY | $32,700 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WSWINSTON-SALEM SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION6× · 2020–2025 · $412k · revenue +47%
- NCNORTH CAROLINA BLACK REPERTORY COMPANY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $365k · revenue +422%
- SFSECCA Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $320k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTSone grant, 2024 · $34k
- CBCASHMERE BABY EXPOone grant, 2024 · $28k
- RHRED HAWKS AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATIONAL AND CULTUREone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -55% · 33% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide cultural and artistic programs for the public of Wilkes County, NC and the surrounding area
To promote, preserve and celebrate African American cultural and heritage through artistic expression and education culminating in a cultural festival held in downtown Raleigh, see schdule O for more info.
The mission of the North Carolina Presenters Consortium is to advance the performing arts by bringing artists and audiences together through collaboration and shared resources.
To provide experiences in the visual and performing arts
To support the cultural arts programs of its members by providing educational information as well as conferences and workshops.
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…
The ICAA advances the appreciation of the priciples of traditional architecture and it's allied arts by engaging educators, students and enthusiats in NC.
North raleigh arts and creative theatre seeks to engage all members of our community by offering high quality entertainment and theatre education. we encourage the development of life skills while providing opportunities to develop a…
Our mission is to sponsor and encourage cultural education and activities in Caswell County and the surrounding areas by increasing art awareness, educating our citizenry, providing positive opportunities for exposure to the arts, and…
To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc
The North Carolina History Theater, Inc., is a qualified 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to expressing and exploring the unique history of North Carolina through the performing arts, and celebrating the rich diversity of our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rebeca Segebre Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
51 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. 51 of the 67 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WINSTON-SALEM SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BLACK REPERTORY COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds SECCA Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE THEATRE OF WINSTON-SALEM INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAWTOOTH SCHOOL FOR VISUAL ART ↗
- Who funds RIVERRUN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT CRAFTSMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Authoring Action ↗
- Who funds Triad Cultural Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds BOOKMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds REYNOLDA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Downtown Winston-Salem Community Cinema ↗
- Who funds Winston Salem Delta Fine Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds Center for Creative Economy ↗
- Who funds ACTION4EQUITY ↗
- Who funds Rebeca Segebre Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Hispanic League ↗
- Who funds MUSE WINSTON-SALEM ↗
- Who funds High Point Ballet ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT WIND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds Winston-Salem Mixxer Inc ↗
- Who funds University of North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE CENTER OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds DOSE COLLECTIVE CORP ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KORNER'S FOLLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINSTON-SALEM THEATRE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AFAS GROUP ↗
- Who funds OLD SALEM INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HYMNS FOR HIM CONFERENCE ↗
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.
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
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 The Arts Council 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.
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.