South Carolina · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE TAPPS ARTS CENTER
FRIENDS OF THE TAPPS ARTS CENTER (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,809 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($20,000). 2 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 FY2020
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $47k
- Net assets
- $10k
What Friends of the Tapps Arts Center does
Mission
A nonprofit community art center
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Visual Culture series supports artists and makers to develop entrepreneurship skills through hands-on experience in exhibition production, film screening and film production. The program serves up to 75 artists a year in the greater Columbia area.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $16.
4 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 FRIENDS OF THE TAPPS ARTS CENTER’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
FRIENDS OF THE TAPPS ARTS CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 FRIENDS OF THE TAPPS ARTS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 72% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 FRIENDS OF THE TAPPS ARTS CENTER'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47k 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF THE TAPPS ARTS CENTER receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $47k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,352 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Government funding FRIENDS OF THE TAPPS ARTS CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $40k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$40k
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 FRIENDS OF THE TAPPS ARTS CENTER
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRIENDS OF THE TAPPS ARTS CENTER: 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 FRIENDS OF THE TAPPS ARTS CENTER?
- FRIENDS OF THE TAPPS ARTS CENTER (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,809 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($20,000). 2 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 FRIENDS OF THE TAPPS ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $46,809 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE TAPPS ARTS CENTER, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE TAPPS ARTS CENTER?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE TAPPS ARTS CENTER 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 FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing