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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Itemized grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$1.2M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$16,200
Largest grant, FY2024
$314,441
Organizations funded a year
13 to 18
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$4.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Arts Council of Fayetteville Cumberland County Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving19$1.2M32%
FY202313$1.2M0%
FY202214$831k0%
FY202118$992k44%
FY202015$758kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$4.9MRecreation & Sports$15kEducation$11kPublic Benefit$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of The Arts Council of Fayetteville Cumberland County Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cape Fear Regional Theatre at Fayetteville Inc$1,423,000517%
Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra Inc$718,517530%
Cape Fear Botanical Garden$553,30456%
Cool Spring Downtown District Inc$340,017334%
Sweet Tea Shakespeare Inc$184,841549%
The Gilbert Theater Inc$161,603530%
City of Fayetteville$151,9605n/a
Community Concerts of Fayetteville Incorporated$109,743535%
Cape Fear Studios Incorporated$66,679530%
Ellington White Community Developme$55,561324%
Cumberland Choral Arts$51,990426%
Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex Foundation Inc$50,120433%
Groundswell Pictures Inc$38,720431%
Dogwood Festival Inc$17,106116%
City of Fayetteville$15,0001n/a
Methodist University Inc$10,56010%
County of Cumberland$9,6001n/a
Fayetteville State University$9,5001n/a
Culture and Heritage Alliance$8,0001n/a
Friends of the Parks Foundation$7,70313%
Town of Hope Mills$7,5701n/a

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($978k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Arts Council of Fayetteville Cumberland County Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCape Fear Regional Theatre at Fayetteville Inc: $1,423,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetFayetteville Symphony Orchestra Inc: $718,517 over 5y, 30% of budgetCape Fear Botanical Garden: $553,304 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetCool Spring Downtown District Inc: $340,017 over 3y, 34% of budgetSweet Tea Shakespeare Inc: $184,841 over 5y, 49% of budgetThe Gilbert Theater Inc: $161,603 over 5y, 30% of budgetCommunity Concerts of Fayetteville Incorporated: $109,743 over 5y, 35% of budgetCape Fear Studios Incorporated: $66,679 over 5y, 30% of budgetEllington White Community Developme: $55,561 over 3y, 24% of budgetCumberland Choral Arts: $51,990 over 4y, 26% of budgetMuseum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex Foundation Inc: $50,120 over 4y, 33% of budgetGroundswell Pictures Inc: $38,720 over 4y, 31% of budgetDogwood Festival Inc: $17,106 over 1y, 16% of budgetMethodist University Inc: $10,560 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Parks Foundation: $7,703 over 1y, 3.3% of budget

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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 15.

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.

Cumberland Community Foundation IncNC34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 of Fayetteville Cumberland County Inc

How much does The Arts Council of Fayetteville Cumberland County Inc give?
The Arts Council of Fayetteville Cumberland County Inc reported 20 itemized grants totaling $1,182,608, out of $1,214,328 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Arts Council of Fayetteville Cumberland County Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (99%), Recreation & Sports (0%), Education (0%).
Who are The Arts Council of Fayetteville Cumberland County Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Cape Fear Regional Theatre at Fayetteville Inc ($1.4M), Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra Inc ($719k), Cape Fear Botanical Garden ($553k).
Does The Arts Council of Fayetteville Cumberland County Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Arts Council of Fayetteville Cumberland County Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cumberland Community Foundation Inc, Youth Growth Stock Trust, Thomas R & Elizabeth E McLean Foundation Inc.
Where is The Arts Council of Fayetteville Cumberland County Inc based?
The Arts Council of Fayetteville Cumberland County Inc is based in NC.

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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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