· Public charity
United Arts Council of Catawba County Inc
Advancing the cultural life of catawba county through grants, marketing and fundraising
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Arts Council of Catawba County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Arts Council of Catawba County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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