· Public charity
The Durham Arts Council Inc
Durham arts council, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 96 grants below total $382,218 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $685,518 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $303,300 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 $10k95 grants · $325k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAROLINA THEATRE OF DURHAM | $57,352 |
| ZENZALAI GROUP INC(FISCAL SPONSOR ST JOSEPH'S HISTORIC FOUNDATION) | $9,800 |
| EMPOWER DANCE STUDIO LLC | $9,800 |
| HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF DURHAM INC DBA PRESERVATION DURHAM | $7,700 |
| THE STAGVILLE MEMORIAL PROJECT | $6,000 |
| CHORAL SOCIETY OF DURHAM | $6,000 |
| VAULT THEATRE LIMITED | $5,800 |
| THE ARTISAN MARKET AT 305 | $5,440 |
| PARTY ILLEGAL LLC | $5,120 |
| DURHAM ARTS PLACE | $5,000 |
| HUMANITIES APPLIED | $5,000 |
| ISET EXCELSIOR DBA BE CON | $5,000 |
| SHALEIGH DANCE WORKS | $5,000 |
| GIRLS ROCK NC | $5,000 |
| SUTCHILEE PRODUCTIONS | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +51% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 21 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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
Carolina Theatre of Durham Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $583k · revenue +103%- SJSt Josephs Historic Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $84k · revenue +26%
- SDSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +423%
Funded once
- MFMAYA FREELON LLCone grant, 2024 · $9k
- TCTRIANGLE CULTURAL AWARENESS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $9k
- BLBLANKSPACE LLCone grant, 2024 · $9k
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.
Dance Project's mission is to cultivate the field of modern dance in North Carolina, nuturing a community of artists, audiences and students by providing opportunities for training, performance, collaboration and employment.
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 Cabarrus Arts Council is to present, promote and inspire creativity in our community.
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…
Provide cultural and artistic programs for the public of Wilkes County, NC and the surrounding area
SIFAA is dedicated to preserving and promoting the rich heritage of South Indian classical arts while fostering cultural enrichment and community engagement. Our mission is to provide premier platforms for renowned South Indian performing…
Durham arts council, inc. is a catalyst in the cultural development of durham it leads, inspires, and promotes excellence in and access to the creation, experience, and active support of the arts for all the people of our community.
Cain center for the arts' mission is to provide exceptional visual arts, performing arts, and social experiences to the lake norman region.
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 educate, promote and create performing arts.
JazzArts Charlotte's (JazzArts) mission is connecting the cultural community and developing an audience for jazz through quality education, performance and musician support. JazzArts' vision is to be a catalyst for cultural enrichment and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Triangle Youth Ballet and the most unlike its peers is Tkdubs Productions. 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 17 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 123 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 Carolina Theatre of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds St Josephs Historic Foundation ↗
- Who funds KIDZNOTES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND ↗
- Who funds MALLARME CHAMBER PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds WALLTOWN CHILDRENS THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Durham Art Guild ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR CHURCH OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Shaleigh Dance Works ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA ARTS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds The Carolina Wren Press Inc ↗
- Who funds The Beautiful Project Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds BUMP Inc ↗
- Who funds CHORAL SOCIETY OF DURHAM INC ↗
- Who funds The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle ↗
- Who funds DURHAM BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds DURHAM SYMPHONY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM SAVOYARDS LTD ↗
- Who funds SCRAP EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Claymakers Arts Community Inc ↗
- Who funds DURHAM CHILDRENS CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds SPANISH DANCE ARTS CO INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY ↗
- Who funds UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF RALEIGH AND WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Empower Dance Foundation ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ROCK NC INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Triangle ArtWorks Inc ↗
- Who funds GASPARD&DANCERS INC ↗
- Who funds Manbites Dog Theater Company ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Duke University · South Arts Inc · The Forest At Duke Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Bin Charitable Foundation % Sarah Fish · Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundation · Devonwood Foundation 009606-007 · United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Inc · Fox Family Foundation Inc · Duke University Health System 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 Durham 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.