· Public charity
The Arts Council of Fayetteville Cumberland County Inc
The arts council connects our communities, embraces diversity, promotes individual creativity, advances economic development, and fosters lifelong learning through the arts.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $1,182,608 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,214,328 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $31,720 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $666k
- $250k+1 grant · $314k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE | $314,441 |
| VARIOUS | $207,310 |
| FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $135,000 |
| COOL SPRING DOWNTOWN DISTRICT | $133,000 |
| CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDENS | $106,287 |
| SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE | $84,000 |
| GILBERT THEATER | $42,000 |
| CULTURAL AND HERITAGE ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| CUMBERLAND CHORAL ARTS | $17,570 |
| CROSSROADS OUTREACH ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM MINISTRIES | $16,200 |
| CAPE FEAR VALLEY MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE CAPE FEAR HITORICAL COMPLEX | $15,000 |
| FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY | $14,000 |
| GROUNDSWELL PICTURES | $10,800 |
| COMMUNITY CONCERTS | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 0% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- CFCAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE AT FAYETTEVILLE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +524%
- FSFAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $719k · revenue +13% · 30% of their budget
- CFCAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN5× · 2020–2024 · $553k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- DFDOGWOOD FESTIVAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue +58%
- COCITY OF FAYETTEVILLEone grant, 2020 · $15k
- MUMETHODIST UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +15%
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
Cultural enrichment through arts programs
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A theater for community theatrical groups, cultural, performance and other cultural or historical activities.
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Production of arts performances
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Fear Regional Theatre At Fayetteville Inc and the most unlike its peers is Culture and Heritage Alliance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 29 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 CAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE AT FAYETTEVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds COOL SPRING DOWNTOWN DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET TEA SHAKESPEARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GILBERT THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONCERTS OF FAYETTEVILLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CAPE FEAR STUDIOS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Ellington White Community Developme ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND CHORAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CAPE FEAR HISTORICAL COMPLEX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDSWELL PICTURES INC ↗
- Who funds DOGWOOD FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds METHODIST UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURE AND HERITAGE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Cumberland Community Foundation Inc · Youth Growth Stock Trust · Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc · The Golden Leaf Inc · Riddle Family Foundation · Cumberland County Hospital System Inc · Florence Rogers Charitable Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 of Fayetteville Cumberland County 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.