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FOUNDATION FOR SPIRITUALITY AND THE ARTS INC

FOUNDATION FOR SPIRITUALITY AND THE ARTS INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $472,250 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($460,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$279k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$472k
Net assets
$64k
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Foundation for Spirituality and the Arts Inc does

Mission

Building on the wisdom of millennia of careful reflection about the divine, the foundation for spirituality and the arts fosters conversations, residencies, and other programs to nurture connections between contemporary art and faith.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The foundation for spirituality and the arts seeks to foster contemplation, imagination, and thoughtful engagement through our curated programing. By encouraging a mutual flow of creativity and faith from both artists and scholars, we hope to initiate fresh channels of spiritual enrichment from new depths of artistic expression. Nurturing innovative and experimental collaborations between a wide range of communities, we aspire to integrate estranged voices together in a spirit of harmony, openness, and inquisitiveness. Our programs are structured into four main arenas; residencies, gatherings, fellowships, and selected resources we call inspirations. At the heart of fsa's programming is our annual series of residencies - two fully-funded, live-work studio spaces located in the heart of charleston's historic district. We welcome visual artists, performers, composers, choreographers, and other makers; as well as curators, writers, and theologians working on projects related to spirituality.

    $208,232 spentof which $45,650 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $208,232.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($151k) Expenses 100 ($113k) Net assets 100 ($38k)2022 Revenue 158 ($238k) Expenses 186 ($209k) Net assets 177 ($67k)2023 Revenue 153 ($230k) Expenses 235 ($264k) Net assets 87 ($33k)2024 Revenue 208 ($314k) Expenses 264 ($297k) Net assets 130 ($49k)2025 Revenue 186 ($279k) Expenses 236 ($265k) Net assets 167 ($64k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (186)Expenses (236)Net assets (167)Peer revenue range

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 $39k to $91k (+131%).

$39k
$91k
$56k
$50k
$66k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of FOUNDATION FOR SPIRITUALITY AND THE ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,618 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$38k
’21
$29k
’22
−$34k
’23
$16k
’24
$14k
’25
3.0
months of
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

Tyler Rollins

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed45555
Joined·+1+0+0+1
No longer listed·0001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 FOUNDATION FOR SPIRITUALITY AND THE ARTS 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

FOUNDATION FOR SPIRITUALITY AND THE ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

100% 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 FOUNDATION FOR SPIRITUALITY AND THE ARTS INC.

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

100% of FOUNDATION FOR SPIRITUALITY AND THE ARTS 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 $2k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 2 states.

NY
SC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $470k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FOUNDATION FOR SPIRITUALITY AND THE ARTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like FOUNDATION FOR SPIRITUALITY AND THE ARTS 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 South Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 22%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
SC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FOUNDATION FOR SPIRITUALITY AND THE ARTS 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 FOUNDATION FOR SPIRITUALITY AND THE ARTS INC?
FOUNDATION FOR SPIRITUALITY AND THE ARTS INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $472,250 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($460,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does FOUNDATION FOR SPIRITUALITY AND THE ARTS INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $472,250 in grants to FOUNDATION FOR SPIRITUALITY AND THE ARTS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOUNDATION FOR SPIRITUALITY AND THE ARTS INC?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $460,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOUNDATION FOR SPIRITUALITY AND THE ARTS INC 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing