· Public charity
United Arts Council of Greensboro Inc
The arts council of greater greensboro (the acgg) is dedicated to fostering creativity and enriching the cultural lives of all residents.
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 32 grants below total $528,093 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $734,418 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $206,325 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 $10k6 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $491k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIGH POINT AREA ARTS COUNCIL INC | $35,673 |
| CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTISTS INC | $23,625 |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN ATELIER | $22,735 |
| CONE HEALTH HEART AND VASCULAR | $21,500 |
| CREATIVE AGING NETWORK-NC | $21,250 |
| ROYAL EXPRESSIONS CONTEMPORARY BALLET | $19,950 |
| GREENSBORO DOWNTOWN PARKS INC | $19,950 |
| GREENSBORO LITERARY ORGANIZATION | $19,660 |
| ART ALLIANCE OF GREENSBORO INC | $18,000 |
| GREENSBORO BALLET INC | $18,000 |
| THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA | $18,000 |
| RECONSIDERED GOODS | $18,000 |
| CAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC | $18,000 |
| THE CHORAL ARTS COLLECTIVE (BEL CANTO COMPANY INC) | $18,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA BRASS BAND | $18,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 31% of United Arts Council of Greensboro Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 71% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
47 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- HPHIGH POINT ARTS COUNCIL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $446k · revenue +72%
- GSGREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC6× · 2017–2023 · $276k · revenue +78%
- AAAFRICAN AMERICAN ATELIER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $157k · revenue +46% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
- MLMONIQUE LUCK ART LLCone grant, 2024 · $24k
- ITIN TUNE INCone grant, 2024 · $12k
- AEACTIVATE ENTERTAINMENT INCone grant, 2024 · $10k
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 mission of the North Carolina Presenters Consortium is to advance the performing arts by bringing artists and audiences together through collaboration and shared resources.
Provide cultural and artistic programs for the public of Wilkes County, NC and the surrounding area
Production of arts performances
Our mission is to sponsor and encourage cultural education and activities in Caswell County and the surrounding areas by increasing art awareness, educating our citizenry, providing positive opportunities for exposure to the arts, and…
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…
The mission of Cabarrus Arts Council is to present, promote and inspire creativity in our community.
Community theatre
Vault Theatre creates high-quality theatre programming with, for, and by young artists in North Carolina. We help students explore their creative potential through arts-integration in schools, onstage performances, and innovative theatre…
Enrichment of cultural environment by providing the North Atlanta area community with high quality performances and opportunities for young and gifted performers.
To support the cultural arts programs of its members by providing educational information as well as conferences and workshops.
The Carolina Theatre welcomes everyone. We enrich the experience of audiences through programming that drives the cultural, educational, and economic vitality of the region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carolina Theatre of Greensboro Inc and the most unlike its peers is Creative Aging Network - Nc. 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 27 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 69 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 HIGH POINT ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds TRIAD STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN HILL CENTER FOR NORTH CAROLINA ART ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN ATELIER INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Piedmont Blues Preservation Society ↗
- Who funds Dance Project Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSIC FOR A GREAT SPACE ↗
- Who funds Royal Expressions Contemporary Ballet ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE AGING NETWORK - NC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTISTS GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO LITERARY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds GREENSBORO DOWNTOWN PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Tab Arts Center Non-Profit Inc ↗
- Who funds RECONSIDERED GOODS INC ↗
- Who funds ELSEWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds ART ALLIANCE OF GREENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds Casa Azul of Greensboro ↗
- Who funds HIRSCH WELLNESS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CHORAL ARTS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BRASS BAND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA THEATRE CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds Choral Arts Collective Inc ↗
- Who funds iAlign Dance Company ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Forge Greensboro ↗
- Who funds SHARED RADIANCE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Kids Poetry Basketball Inc ↗
- Who funds CONE HEALTH PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Weaver Foundation Inc · Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community Health Foundation · Co Tua Marion S Covington Fdn · Greensboro Jewish Federation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Greensboro 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.