· Public charity
United Arts of Central Florida Inc
The mission of united arts of central florida is to inspire and enrich communities by strengthening arts, science, history, and culture through strategic collaborations and investments.
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 71 grants below total $13,406,813 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,015,874 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $609,061 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 $10k4 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $919k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+5 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $8,773,738 |
| ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $796,206 |
| ORLANDO BALLET | $556,378 |
| ORLANDO SHAKESPEARE THEATER | $361,075 |
| ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTER | $336,272 |
| ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART | $236,142 |
| ORLANDO FAMILY STAGE | $225,738 |
| OPERA ORLANDO | $216,184 |
| BACH FESTIVAL SOCIETY OF WINTER PARK | $157,165 |
| ENZIAN THEATER INC | $116,459 |
| HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL RESOURCE & EDUCATION CENTER | $93,246 |
| CREALDE SCHOOL OF ART | $87,943 |
| CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY ARTS | $84,991 |
| ORANGE COUNTY REGIONAL HISTORY CENTER | $84,540 |
| ART AND HISTORY MUSEUMS OF MAITLAND | $72,453 |
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 (FY21–21, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 9 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k 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
- OPORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $8.9M · revenue +52% · 33% of their budget
- OBORLANDO BALLET INC9× · 2017–2025 · $7.0M · revenue +47%
- OSOrlando Shakespeare Theater Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $6.2M · revenue +42% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- GSGirl Scouts of Citrus Council Incone grant, 2022 · $216k · revenue -12%
- GLGRANTS LESS THAN 5000one grant, 2017 · $214k
- RCROLLINS COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $155k · revenue +32%
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 ME Dance is to introduce innovative ideas through dance to create growth in the arts community. Our goal is to enrich the arts community by providing an outlet to feature talent in art through entertainment.
A charitable ballet company producing professional ballet performances for the public, Arts Ballet Theatre provides accessibility, community involvement & education & training for professional and pre-professional dancers. It also provides…
Ballet instruction - students up to the age of 18
To create cultural experiences and educational opportunities for our community through music. This includes symphony orchestra performances and other live entertainment at the Reilly Arts Center and the Marion Theatre in Downtown Ocala.
Florida Cultural Group, Inc. and its venue, Manatee Performing Arts Center, are the cultural anchor and economic drivers in the Florida Gulf Coast region. We provide for all ages affordable, high-quality and thought-provoking…
Promote art education and instruction in West Volusia County and the surrounding areas through classes, events, exhibits, festivals and other cultural and civic activities.
The mission of the florida ballet is to enrich and inspire the cultural landscape of our community through the education and art of classical ballet.
To train actors and present Shakespeare plays and lectures free or at minimal cost to the public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creative City Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is African Diasporic Arts and Education Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 31% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
92 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. 92 of the 116 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 ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Orlando Shakespeare Theater Inc ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO SCIENCE CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds BACH FESTIVAL SOCIETY OF WINTER PARK ↗
- Who funds ENZIAN THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA COMMUNITY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ORLANDO FAMILY STAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CREALDE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds MAITLAND ART AND HISTORY ASSOCIATION IN ↗
- Who funds GARDEN THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL RESOURCE & EDUCATION CENTER OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE CITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN ARTS DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE WINTER PARK PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ALBIN POLASEK MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds TIMUCUA ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MENNELLO MUSEUM OF AMERIC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL FLORIDA VOCAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds SNAP CULTURAL EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds DR PHILLIPS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Citrus Council Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL PEACE FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE THE EATONVILLE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DORA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds RITZ COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT INC DBA WAYNE DENSCH PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds WINTER GARDEN HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MICHELEE PUPPETS INC ↗
- Who funds FUSIONFEST 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: Central Florida Foundation · Universal Orlando Foundation Inc · The Dr P Phillips Foundation · Mary Palmer Family Foundation Inc · Orlando Health Inc · Florida Humanities Council Inc · Magruder Chesley G Fdn Im · The Lee Foundation · Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation · Pabst Steinmetz Foundation Inc · Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation · The David and Lyn Berelsman Family Charitable Foundation Trust
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 of Central Florida 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Open Scene Inc — 6% of income from government
- Hapco Music Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Orlando Science Centerinc — 4% of income from government
- Enzian Theater Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Leesburg Art Festival Inc — 0% of income from government
- Central Florida Fair Inc — 0% of income from government
- Orlando Museum of Art Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emotions Dance Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Garden Theatre Inc — 0% of income from government
- Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bay Street Players Inc — 0% 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.