· Public charity
United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Inc
The united arts council of raleigh and wake county, inc.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF RALEIGH AND WAKE 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 33 grants below total $368,241 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,227,501 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $859,260 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 $10k8 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $313k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARTSPACE INC | $25,751 |
| PINECONE INC | $16,397 |
| ARTS ACCESS | $16,372 |
| DIAMANTE INC | $15,666 |
| VISUAL ART EXCHANGE | $15,125 |
| RALEIGH LITTLE THEATRE | $14,035 |
| THE JUSTICE THEATER PROJECT | $11,785 |
| HUM SUB INC | $11,735 |
| ARTS TOGETHER | $11,735 |
| ARTSPLOSURE | $11,723 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $11,698 |
| RALEIGH YOUTH CHOIR | $11,648 |
| NORTH CAROLINA MASTER CHORALE INC | $11,524 |
| TRIANGLE YOUTH MUSIC | $11,462 |
| AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL FESTIVAL | $11,362 |
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 (FY17–25, $207k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 12% of United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County 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, 95% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 85% — 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- DTDAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO9× · 2017–2025 · $227k · revenue +41%
ARTSPACE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $218k · revenue +52%- ATARTS TOGETHER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $168k · revenue +32%
Funded once
MARBLES KIDS MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $41k · revenue +227%- TITHEATRE IN THE PARK INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $41k · revenue +215%
- EGEDUCATIONAL GROWTH ACROSS OCEANSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $41k · revenue ×42
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.
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.
The Carolina Theatre welcomes everyone. We enrich the experience of audiences through programming that drives the cultural, educational, and economic vitality of the region.
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
Greensboro opera is a community-based company dedicated to fostering the growth of opera and to presenting professional productions of the highest artistic caliber for the enjoyment, education, and enrichment of the triad region of north…
To bring the finest in internationally acclaimed performing artists to the Charlotte area and to provide educational opportunities to students of all ages.
Enrichment of cultural environment by providing the North Atlanta area community with high quality performances and opportunities for young and gifted performers.
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…
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 primary objective of Durham Ballet Theatre is to offer complimentary community performances in dance, encompassing both ballet and aerial disciplines, to individuals who are underserved due to physical abilities or financial…
Qc concerts is a charlotte, nc based theatre company committed to presenting concert-style productions of plays and musicals. with a focus on preserving the work, qc concerts seeks to push the envelope on live theatre, expanding the…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Theatre Raleigh Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest Community Youth Orchestra. 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 24 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 114 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 RALEIGH LITTLE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO ↗
- Who funds ARTSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK BOX DANCE THEATER ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE YOUTH MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds African American Cultural Festival of Raleigh Wake County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JUSTICE THEATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Visual Art Exchange Inc ↗
- Who funds EL PUEBLO INC ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH YOUTH CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS ACCESS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NORTH RALEIGH ARTS & CREATIVE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT COUNCIL OF TRADITIONAL MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MASTER CHORALE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA OPERA ↗
- Who funds CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUM SUB INC ↗
- Who funds TheGifted Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTSPLOSURE THE RALEIGH ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CONCERT SINGERS OF CARY INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds KIDZNOTES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMOTION - COMMUNITY IN MOTION ↗
- Who funds North Carolina Chamber Music Instit ↗
- Who funds DIAMANTE INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE RALEIGH INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS THEATRE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds TOWNE PLAYERS OF GARNER INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC RALEIGH 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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · John William Pope Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Executive Service Corps of the Greater Triangle Inc · John Rex Endowment · Duke Energy Foundation · Aj Fletcher Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Ella Ann L and Frank B Holding Foundatio · The Durham Arts Council Inc · Fenwick 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 Raleigh and Wake 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.
- Story Tapestries Inc — 16% of income from government
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.