Georgia · Nonprofit
GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL INC
GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL INC (Georgia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $534,305 to it, the largest being THE KNOX FOUNDATION ($200,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $534k
- Net assets
- $170k
What Greater Augusta Arts Council Inc does
Mission
To promote arts in the csra through community events, weekly radio show, and marketing campaign. Coordinate diverse community events, manage art grants for the city of augusta. Public art agency for the city of augusta, manages the public art master plan.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Arts in the heart of augusta festival has been in existence for over 25 years. A 2-1/2 day celebration for the area to promote arts, cultural resources and crafts. Approximate attendance of 60,000. Planned by board and community volunteers. Over 600 volunteers work during the 2-1/2 day event. The city of augusta and sponsors contribute to the event. The event features booths from over 15 local ethnic organizations, 70 artist booths, and 4 stages including performances by local singers, dancers, actors, writers and art schools. A free hands on children's area is provided along with numerous ethnic performances that brand our event.
$967,229 spent$549,650 earned by the program85% of program spendingVarious activities that support the organization's goals to develop programs. Goals include strengthening the area's cultural institutions and improving the quality of education in the areas of art and music. They also serve as an advocate for development of new cultural facilities and programs throughout the csra.
$49,647 spent$11,237 earned by the program4% of program spendingRegrant city funds to individual art groups through grant program. The greater augusta arts council acts as the cultural arm of the city of augusta. Each year, we regrant funds designated by the city to non-profit arts organization programs in richmond county.
$117,436 spentof which $104,114 as grants10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,134,312.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $158k to $433k (+175%).
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: 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $20k → $140k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $690k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Augusta Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc Dba Destination Augusta). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER AUGUSTA 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
GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
33% 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 GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 98% · 2019 92% · 2020 96% · 2021 53% · 2022 56% · 2023 53% — 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
25% of GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
73% of GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $95 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.
Government funding GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $320k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$320k
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 GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER AUGUSTA 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 GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL INC?
- GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL INC (Georgia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $534,305 to it, the largest being THE KNOX FOUNDATION ($200,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $534,305 in grants to GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL INC?
- THE KNOX FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER AUGUSTA ARTS COUNCIL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 10 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