North Carolina · Nonprofit
ASHE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC
ASHE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,530 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($111,297). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $563k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $126k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Ashe County Arts Council Inc does
Mission
The ashe county arts council exists to enrich the cultural life of ashe county by nurturing and supporting the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The ashe county arts council, sponsors community concerts and programs, school arts assembly programs, and the junior appalachian musicians program in all 3 elementary schools as well as many other events. The gallery and gallery shop featured work of many local and regional artists and crafts people.
$354,821 spent80% of program spendingThroughout the 2024-2025 Fiscal Year, we continued to promote arts programs for community members of all ages. Many of these programs took place at our Civic Center location. We successfully completed our annual Missoula Childrens Theatre Residency. Additionally, we continued our Junior Appalachian Musician classes and expanded our Appalachian Tunes music lessons for adult learners. We sought to make concerts more accessible to members of the public who were financially impacted by the hurricane by offering a series of Live Radio concerts in partnership with our local WKSK The Farm radio station. These Live Radio shows were free to attend in-person at the Civic Center. We hosted additional concerts from musicians including but not limited to Buffalo Nichols, Take3, and Martha Spencer. An educational workshop with Soul Street Dance taught students about rhythm and percussion.
$90,836 spent20% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $445,657.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $548k to $1.4M (+151%).
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: 2020 22% · 2021 36% · 2022 23% · 2023 48% · 2024 23% · 2025 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Joni Ray
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $17k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 ASHE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC’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
ASHE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 ASHE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 87% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 96% · 2022 99% · 2023 66% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of ASHE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $123k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Organizations like ASHE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASHE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC: 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 ASHE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC?
- ASHE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $125,530 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($111,297). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASHE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $125,530 in grants to ASHE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASHE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $111,297 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASHE COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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