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CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC

CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,975 to it, the largest being TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($166,850). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$537k
Revenue FY2025
11
Funders on record
$314k
Grants received
$376k
Net assets
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($140k) Expenses 100 ($123k) Net assets 100 ($45k)2019 Revenue 125 ($175k) Expenses 128 ($157k) Net assets 135 ($61k)2020 Revenue 142 ($199k) Expenses 158 ($195k) Net assets 144 ($66k)2021 Revenue 254 ($355k) Expenses 231 ($284k) Net assets 301 ($137k)2022 Revenue 197 ($276k) Expenses 204 ($252k) Net assets 354 ($161k)2023 Revenue 235 ($329k) Expenses 273 ($336k) Net assets 360 ($164k)2024 Revenue 337 ($472k) Expenses 328 ($404k) Net assets 509 ($231k)2025 Revenue 384 ($537k) Expenses 318 ($392k) Net assets 827 ($376k)
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Revenue (384)Expenses (318)Net assets (827)

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.

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2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 55% · 2022 38% · 2023 46% · 2024 63% · 2025 29%. 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
17
$18k
19
$4k
20
$71k
21
$24k
22
$7k
23
$68k
24
$145k
25
5.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $19k → $47k.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)59% 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 CHATHAM 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

CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

67% 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 CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC.

53%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 51% · 2019 91% · 2020 79% · 2021 45% · 2022 45% · 2023 33%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

60% of CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

59% of CHATHAM 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 $130k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from North Carolina funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $184k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In North Carolina

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 8%Fundraising 7%

Governance

8
board members
88%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

92%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHATHAM 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 CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC?
CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $313,975 to it, the largest being TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($166,850). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $313,975 in grants to CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHATHAM ARTS COUNCIL INC?
TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $166,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHATHAM 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing