South Carolina · Nonprofit
CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART
CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART (South Carolina) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,568,580 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,165,387). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Carolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art does
Mission
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide opportunities to learn, to discover, to enjoy, and to be inspired by the creative process.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Collections/exhibitions/scholarship: the art collection housed at the gibbes constitutes the single greatest cultural asset in the lowcountry region of south carolina. Few collections in the united states match its depth, breadth and quality in american art that touches charleston. The gibbes aims to present an innovative series of special exhibitions and permanent collection installations of superior quality, variety, and scope. Exhibitions are designed as an experimental platform for engaging with art in new and exciting ways and challenging established interpretations. The program strives to promote creativity, introduce new art forms, provide perspective on larger community issues, encourage freedom of thought, and connect with the broadest possible audience.
$1,165,838 spent$166,306 earned by the program30% of program spendingEducation/public programs: education and public programs are central to the mission and vision of the gibbes and stem from the museum's purpose to connect people of all backgrounds to ideas and creativity through art. We work to provide a cultural experience for everyone by connecting artists, the creative process, and works of art to improve our quality of life and stimulate dialogue and innovation. The gibbes is committed to: providing high- uality training to all staff and volunteers whose responsibility involves implementation of this policy; encouraging access to the curatorial department and industry leaders for the purpose of study and training; implementing national and regional standards and recommendations for museum education; applying the state curriculum standards for the visual arts for all programs throughout the tri-county schools; and implementing the state curriculum standards for the visual arts to enhance other disciplines: social studies, english language arts, science and math.
$2,034,051 spent$290,157 earned by the program53% of program spendingVisitor services/gift shop/art sales gallery: the museum is ideally positioned to tell the stories of the american youth to its visitors and community. Education is central to its mission and its programs and designed for learners of all ages. Our visitor services and retail amenities cater to all ages and compliment the mission driven activities of the museum. The museum store showcases the creativity of regional artists, and collaborates with artists on exclusive products only available at the gibbes. Featured products include jewelry, gifts, art supplies, books, and specialty tems - introducing art into everyday life. Every tax-free purchase directly supports the gibbes museum's mission to enhance lives through art by helping to fund our exhibition and educational programming. The ruth and bill baker art sales gallery provides career support to artists selected for the visiting artist program through the professional display and sale of recent works. Presenting up to eight exhibitions annually, the art sales gallery provides an insightful, contemporary art experience that connects emerging as well as established collectors with artists at all levels of artistic endeavor.…
$630,023 spent$89,872 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,829,912.
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 2024 to 2025, from $20M to $23M (+19%).
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: 2017 19% · 2018 12% · 2019 11% · 2020 9% · 2021 18% · 2022 21% · 2023 26% · 2024 19% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART’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. 4 of the last 9 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
Angela Mack
President/CEO
Board chair
Spencer Lynch
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $340k → $661k.
10 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 funders by total. 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
CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
39% 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 CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 31% · 2019 16% · 2020 62% · 2021 49% · 2022 45% · 2023 43% — 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
57% of CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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.
Organizations like CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART
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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Gibbes Museum LLC · corp_trust
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART?
- CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART (South Carolina) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,568,580 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,165,387). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $4,568,580 in grants to CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,165,387 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CAROLINA ART ASSOCIATION DBA GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 65 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