How much does The Durham Arts Council Inc give?

The Durham Arts Council Inc reported 96 itemized grants totaling $382,218, out of $685,518 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 72 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Durham Arts Council Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (87%), Youth Development (3%), Health (2%).

Who are The Durham Arts Council Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Carolina Theatre of Durham Inc ($583k), African American Community Collaborative ($85k), St Josephs Historic Foundation ($84k).

Does The Durham Arts Council Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Durham Arts Council Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101, Duke University.

Where is The Durham Arts Council Inc based?

The Durham Arts Council Inc is based in NC.

The Durham Arts Council Inc

The Durham Arts Council Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

The Durham Arts Council Inc

Durham arts council, inc.

$686k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$57k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.1MYouth Development$65kHealth$55kCommunity Improvement$40kEnvironment$38kHuman Services$27kReligion$22kRecreation & Sports$19kOther$0

02FY2025 · 96 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 96 grants below total $382,218, the rows itemized in this filing. The $685,518 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $303,300 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k95 grants · $325k
$50k–250k1 grant · $57k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
CHORAL SOCIETY OF DURHAM	$6,000
THE STAGVILLE MEMORIAL PROJECT	$6,000
VAULT THEATRE LIMITED	$5,800
THE ARTISAN MARKET AT 305	$5,440
PARTY ILLEGAL LLC	$5,120
PARTY ILLEGAL LLC	$5,000
NUEVO SOUTH LLC	$5,000
FUSION GALLERY	$5,000
ISET EXCELSIOR DBA BE CON	$5,000
TRIANGLE FRIENDS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTS	$5,000
DURHAM ARTS PLACE	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.2M · 65 repeat orgs$218k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.2M

$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+9%

Still filing today

72%

16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationReligionEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

Carolina Theatre of Durham Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $583k · revenue +103%
SJ
St Josephs Historic Foundation
5× · 2021–2025 · $84k · revenue +26%
SD
SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND
9× · 2017–2025 · $74k · revenue +423%

Funded once

MF
MAYA FREELON LLC
one grant, 2024 · $9k
TC
TRIANGLE CULTURAL AWARENESS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $9k
BL
BLANKSPACE LLC
one grant, 2024 · $9k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Dance Project Inc

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.

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African American Cultural Festival of Raleigh Wake County Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

Cabarrus Arts Council

The mission of Cabarrus Arts Council is to present, promote and inspire creativity in our community.

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North Carolina History Theater

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…

Arts & Culture

Wilkes Playmakers Inc

Provide cultural and artistic programs for the public of Wilkes County, NC and the surrounding area

Arts & Culture

South Indian Fine Arts Academy - Sifaa

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…

Arts & Culture

The Durham Arts Council Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

Cornelius Arts Community Center Inc

Cain center for the arts' mission is to provide exceptional visual arts, performing arts, and social experiences to the lake norman region.

Arts & Culture

North Carolina Presenters Consortium

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.

Arts & Culture

Stewart Owen Dance Inc

To educate, promote and create performing arts.

Arts & Culture

Greenville Theatre Arts Center

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Jazzarts Charlotte

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…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Triangle Youth Ballet; 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.

04the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

59/61

Grantees still filing

43/61

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$1,518,355Other$688,418Youth Development$65,633Religion$55,173Environment$33,708Human Services$32,887Recreation & Sports$26,667

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC64.4× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Durham Arts Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Durham Arts Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home