North Carolina · Nonprofit
Arteria Collective
Arteria Collective (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,042,763 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($302,788). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $335k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $8k
What Arteria Collective does
Mission
Asheville Writers in the Schools and Community ignites social change through the power of the arts, culture and restorative self-expression.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2021 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Asheville Writers in the Schools added arts intensive activities to its programs.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
We currently operate two programs: a teaching artist residency program and Word On The Street/Voz De Les Jvenes (WOTS/VDLJ). The programming year for WOTS/VDLJ began in July with a 3-day overnight retreat for existing participants. This was followed by an orientation session for new participants, which was conducted by existing participants, as well as an orientation session for new parents, which was conducted by staff. After the retreat and orientation sessions, participants engaged in a 10-day arts intensive with activities led by staff and visiting artists of color. Programming during the rest of the year took place in two periods, September-December and January-June. During this time, program staff assisted participants to collectively set a goal for the year, which was to produce a public exhibit of their original art. During
$310,789 spent$35,273 earned by the program100% of program spendingregular monthly meetings, participants worked with support from staff and visiting artists to create eight original murals for the exhibit, which they titled "A Bad Idea". The exhibit took place in March 2022 for the entire month at Revolve Art Gallery in the River Arts District. . Participants also hosted a movie night for BIPOC teens at the exhibit space and staff worked with local BIPOC artists to host a social gathering and dance party at the gallery. These activities helped raise awareness of the organization and more than $1,500 in organizational revenue via art sales and donations. Our teaching artist residency program engaged artists of color to conduct residencies in school and community settings. Through collaboration with the Asheville City Schools Foundation, three teaching artists conducted a four session music education residency
with fifth grade students at Claxton Middle School. During these sessions, students learned about song creation and had the opportunity to produce an original collaborative song and video. In addition, the artist residency program conducted a cycle of Family Voices for the first time since 2019. A total of 11 sessions were conducted between March and June with participants from the Youth Transformed for Life Training Program(YTL). This included an introductory session, five writing sessions with just the youth, 4 writing sessions with their families and a final celebration. Completed writing and artwork was used to create an anthology titled "The Amazing Book of Kids' Thoughts". All participants and their families received a copy of the anthology and additional copies were printed for sharing with funders or other interested persons. Program activities and participants were featured in an on-air and online segment produced by Blue Ridge Public Radio.
The 3 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $310,789.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $87k to $15k (−82%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 40% · 2020 23% · 2021 8% · 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Sekou Coleman
Executive Director
Board chair
Marisa Blake
Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $15k → $415k.
5 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 Arteria Collective’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
Arteria Collective leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
60% 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 Arteria Collective.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 35% · 2021 40% · 2022 37% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“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
29% of Arteria Collective's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
76% of Arteria Collective'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. $511k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
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 Arteria Collective: 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 Arteria Collective?
- Arteria Collective (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,042,763 to it, the largest being DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST ($302,788). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Arteria Collective have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,042,763 in grants to Arteria Collective, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Arteria Collective?
- DOGWOOD HEALTH TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $302,788 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Arteria Collective 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 15 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