North Carolina · Nonprofit
GASTON ARTS COUNCIL
GASTON ARTS COUNCIL (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,378 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GASTON COUNTY INC ($90,060). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
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.
- Gaston Memorial Hospital Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- National Arts Strategies Incportfolio match
- John K and Thirza F Davenport Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 92% · 2022 71% · 2023 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $14k → $11k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 96% 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 GASTON ARTS COUNCIL’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
GASTON ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 GASTON ARTS COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% — 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
95% of GASTON ARTS COUNCIL'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 321 organizations that share them.
- Gaston Memorial Hospital Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchNC · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · funds 28 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- National Arts Strategies Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John K and Thirza F Davenport Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lake Placid Association for Music Drama and Art Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wilhelm Family Foundation Co Cascade Wilhelmportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cricket Fdn Jennifer L Grigg Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cec Artslink Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vermont Council on the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Arts Council of Greensboro Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 GASTON ARTS COUNCIL
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 GASTON ARTS COUNCIL: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GASTON ARTS COUNCIL?
- GASTON ARTS COUNCIL (North Carolina) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,378 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GASTON COUNTY INC ($90,060). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GASTON ARTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $94,378 in grants to GASTON ARTS COUNCIL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GASTON ARTS COUNCIL?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GASTON COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $90,060 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GASTON ARTS COUNCIL 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 6funders 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