· Public charity
United Arts Council of Catawba County Inc
Advancing the cultural life of catawba county through grants, marketing and fundraising
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $349,188 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $400,983 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $51,795 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
- $10k–50k9 grants · $237k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIOUS SMALLER ORGANIZATIONS | $112,202 |
| CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER | $35,314 |
| WESTERN PIEDMONT SYMPHONY | $33,638 |
| HICKORY COMMUNITY THEATRE | $31,828 |
| HICKORY CHORAL SOCIETY | $31,668 |
| THE GREEN ROOM | $28,055 |
| HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART | $24,033 |
| CATAWBA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $21,570 |
| HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY | $20,880 |
| LENOIR RHYNE UNIVERSITY | $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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of your 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.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CSCATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $291k · revenue +15%
- WPWESTERN PIEDMONT SYMPHONY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $291k · revenue +27%
- HCHICKORY COMMUNITY THEATRE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $273k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- SBSALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $23k · revenue +186%
- HSHART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue -7%
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.
The preservation of the heritage and history of Rockingham County, North Carolina
To provide high quality venues and performing arts for the Highlands - Cashiers community.
Preserving the ongoing heritage of the Town of Huntington
To promote and encourage the understanding, appreciation, and study of the art of music
To promote the arts in caldwell county, nc
Operation and maintenance of a museum to collect, care for, exhibit, interpret and demonstrate artifacts that will serve to illustrate and maintain the history of hancock county and ohio.
Education for grades k thru 12
To advocate for local artists and provide access to inclusive community arts programming in hillsborough, nc.
Advancing the cultural life of catawba county through grants, marketing and fundraising
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
The organization celebrates the environmental and social diversity of the catskill region through performance, film and visual art. hpac presents programs that create shared experiences to inspire, challenge, and connect audiences.
Community Theatre that has Performing Arts education, experience and benefit of community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hickory Community Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Western Piedmont Symphony Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PIEDMONT SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREEN ROOM COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HICKORY CHORAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HICKORY LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SALT BLOCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: George Foundation Inc · Corning Incorporated Foundation · Beaver Family Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · Tsh Charitable Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Hambrick Family Foundation Inc · Underdown Family Foundation · Broyhill Family Foundation Inc · The Bolick Foundation · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · Duke Energy 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 United Arts Council of Catawba 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.