Pennsylvania · Public charity
The Arts Council of Erie
Erie arts and culture (eac) provides social and financial resources and services for artists, arts and culture organizations, and culture bearers through endowments and its partnership with pennsylvania council on the arts (pca). Eac grants funds to individual artists and arts and culture organizations through its endowments and…
- $634k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $427k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $283,294
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Arts Council of Erie funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $427k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $272k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $145k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $78k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $158k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $206k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $171k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $242k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erie Art Museum | $497,042 | 7 | 28% |
| Erie Philharmonic Inc | $424,283 | 8 | 4% |
| Erie County Historical Society | $93,179 | 5 | 1% |
| Erie Civic Theatre Association | $90,368 | 6 | 2% |
| Flagship Niagara League | $79,382 | 6 | 2% |
| ExpERIEnce Children's Museum | $79,237 | 6 | 2% |
| Dafmark Dance Theater | $50,166 | 7 | 4% |
| Gannon University | $36,683 | 1 | 0% |
| Downtown Edinboro Art & Music Festival | $33,250 | 4 | 14% |
| Public Broadcasting of Northwest Pennsylvania Inc | $26,548 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($76k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Arts Council of Erie supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Erie Community Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · Kern Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Wabtec Foundation · Merwin Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Pierre and Kathryn McCormick Family Foundation Inc · McBrier Foundation · Vorsheck Family Foundation Inc · The Britton Family Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Arts Council of Erie
- How much does The Arts Council of Erie give?
- The Arts Council of Erie reported 11 itemized grants totaling $426,848, out of $634,447 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Arts Council of Erie fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (95%), Food & Nutrition (2%), Philanthropy (1%).
- Who are The Arts Council of Erie's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Erie Art Museum ($497k), Erie Philharmonic Inc ($424k), Erie County Historical Society ($93k).
- Does The Arts Council of Erie fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Arts Council of Erie?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Erie Community Foundation, M J Surgala Tr, Kern Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Arts Council of Erie based?
- The Arts Council of Erie is based in PA.
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