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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.

$734k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$4.1MHuman Services$158kHealth$103kRecreation & Sports$88kEducation$51kCommunity Improvement$46kYouth Development$33kCivil Rights$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $528,093, the rows itemized in this filing. The $734,418 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $206,325 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 $10k6 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $491k
$18,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GREENSBORO DOWNTOWN PARKS INC$19,950
ROYAL EXPRESSIONS CONTEMPORARY BALLET$19,950
GREENSBORO LITERARY ORGANIZATION$19,660
ART ALLIANCE OF GREENSBORO INC$18,000
DANCE PROJECT INC$18,000
TRIAD INTERNATIONAL BALLET$18,000
GREENSBORO BALLET INC$18,000
GREENSBORO OPERA COMPANY$18,000
GREEN HILL CENTER FOR NORTH CAROLINA ART INC$18,000
MUSIC FOR A GREAT SPACE$18,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CREATIVE AGING NETWORK-NC: $36k → 16%CREATIVE AGING NETWORK-NC: $23k → 16%CREATIVE AGING NETWORK-NC: $21k → 16%CREATIVE AGING NETWORK-NC: $20k → 16%GUILFORD NATIVE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC: $11k → 16%GUILFORD NATIVE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION INC: $8k → 16%CREATIVE AGING NETWORK-NC: $7k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 31% of United Arts Council of Greensboro Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 71%.

United Arts Council of Greensboro Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 47 repeat orgs$209k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
21

Total granted

$4.4M
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+50%

Still filing today

89%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • HP
    HIGH POINT ARTS COUNCIL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $446k · revenue +72%
  • GS
    GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $276k · revenue +78%
  • AA
    AFRICAN AMERICAN ATELIER INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $157k · revenue +46% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • ML
    MONIQUE LUCK ART LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $24k
  • IT
    IN TUNE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
  • AE
    ACTIVATE ENTERTAINMENT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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.

1
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
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2
Wilkes Playmakers Inc

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

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
North Atlanta Dance Theatre Inc

Enrichment of cultural environment by providing the North Atlanta area community with high quality performances and opportunities for young and gifted performers.

Arts & Culture
5
Vault Theatre Limited

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Cultural Voice of North Carolina

Provide Calendars and Reviews of NC Arts

Arts & Culture
7
Stewart Owen Dance Inc

To educate, promote and create performing arts.

Arts & Culture
8
Acting Up Nc Acting Up Nc

Community arts instruction

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Charlotte Concerts

To bring the finest in internationally acclaimed performing artists to the Charlotte area and to provide educational opportunities to students of all ages.

—
11
Creative Arts Community in Greenville aka Greenville Theatre Works

Community theatre

Arts & Culture
12
Colleton County Arts Council

Promote cultural activities in colleton county, south carolina

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carolina Theatre of Greensboro Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 69 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
36/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGH POINT ARTS COUNCIL INC: $446,488 · Arts & CultureHIGH POINT ARTS COUNCIL INCEASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $303,571 · Arts & CultureEASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL INCGREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $275,964 · Arts & CultureGREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCTRIAD STAGE INC: $270,393 · Arts & CultureTRIAD STAGE INCGREEN HILL CENTER FOR NORTH CAROLINA ART: $228,714 · Arts & CultureGREEN HILL CENTER FOR NORTH CAROLINA ARTCAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC: $195,132 · Arts & CultureCAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INCCOMMUNITY THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC: $172,497 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INCGREENSBORO OPERA COMPANY: $137,377 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $136,491 · Arts & CultureRoyal Expressions Contemporary Ballet: $109,589 · Arts & CultureGREENSBORO BALLET INC: $107,210 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $740,059 · Arts & Culture+18 moreAFRICAN AMERICAN ATELIER INC: $156,909 · OtherAFRICAN AMERICAN ATELIER I…Piedmont Blues Preservation Society: $114,912 · OtherPiedmont Blues Preservatio…Dance Project Inc: $114,465 · OtherDance Project IncMUSIC FOR A GREAT SPACE: $111,459 · OtherMUSIC FOR A GREAT SPACENORTH CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL INC: $81,823 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA INTERNATION…Casa Azul of Greensboro: $60,829 · OtherCasa Azul of GreensboroTRIAD INTERNATIONAL BALLET: $58,433 · OtherTRIAD INTERNATIONAL BALLETGANT SCHOOL OF MUSIC & JAZZ: $42,991 · OtherChoral Arts Collective Inc: $42,681 · Other+24 more: $286,098 · Other+24 moreCREATIVE AGING NETWORK - NC: $107,979 · Human ServicesGuilford Native American Association: $18,550 · Human ServicesGREENSBORO DOWNTOWN PARKS INC: $88,434 · Community ImprovementForge Greensboro: $30,803 · Community ImprovementRECONSIDERED GOODS INC: $67,312 · EnvironmentHIRSCH WELLNESS NETWORK INC: $58,004 · HealthMAGNOLIA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $32,850 · Education
Arts & Culture$3,123,485Other$1,070,600Human Services$126,529Community Improvement$119,237Environment$67,312Health$58,004Education$32,850

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHIGH POINT ARTS COUNCIL INC: $446,488 over 9y, 18% of budgetEASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $303,571 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetGREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $275,964 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetTRIAD STAGE INC: $270,393 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetGREEN HILL CENTER FOR NORTH CAROLINA ART: $228,714 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetCAROLINA THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC: $195,132 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY THEATRE OF GREENSBORO INC: $172,497 over 8y, 11% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN ATELIER INC: $156,909 over 8y, 40% of budgetGREENSBORO OPERA COMPANY: $137,377 over 9y, 13% of budgetTHE MUSIC ACADEMY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $136,491 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetPiedmont Blues Preservation Society: $114,912 over 6y, 30% of budgetDance Project Inc: $114,465 over 9y, 8.9% of budgetMUSIC FOR A GREAT SPACE: $111,459 over 9y, 19% of budgetRoyal Expressions Contemporary Ballet: $109,589 over 5y, 15% of budgetCREATIVE AGING NETWORK - NC: $107,979 over 5y, 12% of budgetGREENSBORO BALLET INC: $107,210 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetCENTER FOR VISUAL ARTISTS GREENSBORO INC: $103,496 over 7y, 20% of budgetGREENSBORO LITERARY ORGANIZATION: $95,117 over 6y, 12% of budgetGREENSBORO DOWNTOWN PARKS INC: $88,434 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA INTERNATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL INC: $81,823 over 4y, 19% of budgetTab Arts Center Non-Profit Inc: $74,372 over 6y, 11% of budgetRECONSIDERED GOODS INC: $67,312 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetELSEWHERE INC: $65,422 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetART ALLIANCE OF GREENSBORO INC: $63,845 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetCasa Azul of Greensboro: $60,829 over 5y, 45% of budgetHIRSCH WELLNESS NETWORK INC: $58,004 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetCHORAL ARTS INITIATIVE: $56,028 over 4y, 12% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA BRASS BAND INC: $54,921 over 4y, 13% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA THEATRE CONFERENCE: $53,977 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetChoral Arts Collective Inc: $42,681 over 3y, 15% of budgetiAlign Dance Company: $40,485 over 2y, 29% of budgetMAGNOLIA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $32,850 over 2y, 15% of budgetForge Greensboro: $30,803 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetSHARED RADIANCE PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY: $26,442 over 2y, 24% of budgetKids Poetry Basketball Inc: $23,598 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetTHEATRE ART GALLERIES INC: $19,303 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTriangle ArtWorks Inc: $19,193 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetTOURING THEATRE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $18,678 over 2y, 53% of budgetGuilford Native American Association: $18,550 over 2y, 11% of budgetCANDID: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRIAD PRIDE PERFORMING ARTS: $16,990 over 2y, 20% of budgetHIGH POINT COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $16,531 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE POETRY PROJECT LTD: $15,094 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMAD (MATHARTSDESIGNS): $8,937 over 1y, 93% of budgetHigh Point Ballet: $8,786 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF JOHN COLTRANE INC: $8,585 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSOUTHWEST RENEWAL FOUNDATION OF HIGH POINT INC: $8,559 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetGREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $7,817 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Tannenbaum-Sternberge…The Cemala Foundation…Lincoln Financial Fou…Weaver Foundation IncMoses Cone - Wesley L…Co Tua Marion S Covin…Greensboro Jewish Fed…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro IncNC38.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 United Arts Council of Greensboro Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Arts Council of Greensboro Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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