How much does United Arts of Central Florida Inc give?

United Arts of Central Florida Inc reported 71 itemized grants totaling $13,406,813, out of $14,015,874 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 66 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Arts of Central Florida Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (70%), Science & Tech (5%), Community Improvement (1%).

Who are United Arts of Central Florida Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra Inc ($8.9M), Orlando Ballet Inc ($7.0M), Orlando Shakespeare Theater Inc ($6.2M).

Does United Arts of Central Florida Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Arts of Central Florida Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Florida Foundation, Universal Orlando Foundation Inc, The Dr P Phillips Foundation.

Where is United Arts of Central Florida Inc based?

United Arts of Central Florida Inc is based in FL.

United Arts of Central Florida Inc

United Arts of Central Florida Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$14M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$8.8M

Largest

01What it funds

0199% 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$51MScience & Tech$3.9MCommunity Improvement$1.0MEducation$565kYouth Development$450kRecreation & Sports$172kPublic Benefit$62kEnvironment$15kOther$0

02FY2025 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 71 grants below total $13,406,813, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,015,874 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $609,061 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 $10k4 grants · $31k
$10k–50k48 grants · $919k
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
$250k+5 grants · $11M

$17,189

Median grant

States reached

$20M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

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 (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 its grants land in higher-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.

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$71M · 82 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$71M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+23%

Still filing today

82%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPublic BenefitOther

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

OP
ORLANDO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $8.9M · revenue +52% · 33% of their budget
OB
ORLANDO BALLET INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $7.0M · revenue +47%
OS
Orlando Shakespeare Theater Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $6.2M · revenue +42% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

GS
Girl Scouts of Citrus Council Inc
one grant, 2022 · $216k · revenue -12%
GL
GRANTS LESS THAN 5000
one grant, 2017 · $214k
RC
ROLLINS COLLEGEgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $155k · revenue +32%

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.

Orlando Philharmonic

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Me Dance Inc

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.

Arts & Culture

Arts Ballet Theatre of Florida Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Florida Classical Ballet Inc

Ballet instruction - students up to the age of 18

Arts & Culture

Creative Kids Srq

Arts & Culture

Conecta Miami Arts Inc

Arts & Culture

Florida Cultural Group Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Ridge Art Association Inc

At Ridge Art Association, we believe in the power of art to bring people from diverse backgrounds together in a positive and collaborative environment. Our mission is to inspire confidence, unleash creativity, and foster expression in all…

Arts & Culture

Ocala Symphony Orchestra Inc

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.

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Florida Education and Arts Trust

Philanthropy

Gateway Center for the Arts Inc

Promote art education and instruction in West Volusia County and the surrounding areas through classes, events, exhibits, festivals and other cultural and civic activities.

Arts & Culture

Florida Ballet At Jacksonville Inc

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.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Creative City Project Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

92 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. 92 of the 116 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)

85/92

Grantees still filing

62/92

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$47,937,021Other$23,839,546Education$439,200Recreation & Sports$182,897Public Benefit$61,590Human Services$42,416Crime & Legal$19,025

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.

Central Florida FoundationFL46.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

33get no government money at all

35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home