North Carolina · Nonprofit
Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation
Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,958,881 to it, the largest being GREATER CHARLOTTE CULTURAL TRUST ($5,937,714). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation does
Mission
The bechtler museum of modern art seeks to add significantly to the cultural landscape through exhibitions and programs that celebrate and explore the bechtler collection of 20th-century modern art as well as the personal materials related to the collection that illuminate the unique role of the bechtler family as patrons of the period's most innovative and influential artists.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The bechtler museum of modern art offers an array of innovative opportunities for the community at large to enrich their cultural experiences, social engagement and personal self-discovery. During the 2023-24 fiscal year, the museum offered the following programs: a variety of exhibitions of art dedicated to modern and contemporary art, and public programs, such as jazz at the bechtler (offered new perspectives on modern jazz composers, legendary artists, and musical styles that grew in popularity in the mid-to-late 20th century), and music and museum (offered classical ensemble performances in the galleries and lobby to complement the art on view). In addition, guest lectures from artists, curators, and art historians explored the many facets of modern art and architecture. Continuing in fy24 was the highly popular wednesday night live. This weekly program of free admission and planned programs on wednesday evenings was in partnership with the mint museum and gantt center for afro-american art + culture. The museum launched new tour programs for k-12 audiences and offered these tours free of charge. The museum presented the following special exhibitions: teresa hubbard/alexander…
$3,227,367 spent$1,422,849 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,227,367.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $39M to $35M (−11%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
64% of Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Todd Smith
Executive Director
Board chair
Robert Stolz
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $644k → $1.5M.
7 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
97% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 71% · 2019 70% · 2020 55% · 2021 69% · 2022 52% · 2023 67% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
36% of Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
98% of Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $93k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$70k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$23k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
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In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation?
- Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,958,881 to it, the largest being GREATER CHARLOTTE CULTURAL TRUST ($5,937,714). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $13,958,881 in grants to Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation?
- GREATER CHARLOTTE CULTURAL TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $5,937,714 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Andreas H Bechtler Arts Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 30 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing