How much does United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Inc give?

United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Inc reported 33 itemized grants totaling $368,241, out of $1,227,501 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 65 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (95%), Youth Development (2%), Education (1%).

Who are United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Raleigh Little Theatre Inc ($234k), Davner Theatricals Inc Dba Burning Coal Theatre Co ($227k), Artspace Inc ($218k).

Does United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101, John William Pope Foundation.

United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Inc

United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Inc

Q: Where is United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Inc based?

United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Inc is based in NC.

The united arts council of raleigh and wake county, inc.

$1.2M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$26k

Largest

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$5.8MYouth Development$145kEducation$73kCommunity Improvement$40kPublic Benefit$32kEmployment$16kRecreation & Sports$7k

02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 33 grants below total $368,241, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,227,501 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $859,260 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 $10k8 grants · $56k
$10k–50k25 grants · $313k

$11,300

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 12% of United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 85%.

United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.6M · 73 repeat orgs$508k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.6M

$473k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+24%

Still filing today

62%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

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DAVNER THEATRICALS INC DBA BURNING COAL THEATRE CO
9× · 2017–2025 · $227k · revenue +41%
ARTSPACE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $218k · revenue +52%
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ARTS TOGETHER INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $168k · revenue +32%

Funded once

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EDUCATIONAL GROWTH ACROSS OCEANSgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $41k · revenue ×42
TI
THEATRE IN THE PARK INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $41k · revenue +215%
MARBLES KIDS MUSEUMgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $41k · revenue +227%

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.

Dance Project Inc

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.

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Carolina Theatre of Durham Inc

The Carolina Theatre welcomes everyone. We enrich the experience of audiences through programming that drives the cultural, educational, and economic vitality of the region.

Arts & Culture

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

Wilkes Playmakers Inc

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

Arts & Culture

Greensboro Opera Company

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…

Arts & Culture

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.

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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

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

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

Durham Ballet Theatre

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…

Arts & Culture

Queen City Concerts Corporation

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…

Arts & Culture

South Indian Fine Arts Academy - Sifaa

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…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Theatre Raleigh Inc; 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.

05the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 114 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

66/69

Grantees still filing

46/69

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$3,233,465Other$2,640,721Human Services$207,469Education$39,195

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.

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC54.4× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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.

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The regranting layer

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