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GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL

GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL (South Carolina) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $969,775 to it, the largest being FRED COLLINS FOUNDATION ($315,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.3M
Revenue FY2024
25
Funders on record
$970k
Grants received
$767k
Net assets
20/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%

Against its field

GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve4.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($283k)2018 Revenue 99 ($1.4M) Expenses 99 ($1.4M) Net assets 94 ($265k)2019 Revenue 105 ($1.5M) Expenses 104 ($1.5M) Net assets 93 ($265k)2020 Revenue 36 ($524k) Expenses 38 ($560k) Net assets 81 ($228k)2021 Revenue 99 ($1.4M) Expenses 87 ($1.3M) Net assets 134 ($381k)2022 Revenue 90 ($1.3M) Expenses 84 ($1.2M) Net assets 145 ($412k)2023 Revenue 118 ($1.7M) Expenses 116 ($1.7M) Net assets 155 ($439k)2024 Revenue 158 ($2.3M) Expenses 135 ($2.0M) Net assets 271 ($767k)
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Revenue (158)Expenses (135)Net assets (271)Peer revenue range

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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2018
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 8% · 2019 10% · 2020 7% · 2021 13% · 2022 6% · 2023 7% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$18k
’17
−$18k
’18
−$387
’19
−$36k
’20
$152k
’21
$61k
’22
$18k
’23
$305k
’24
4.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $73k → $147k.

Funder
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'25*
total
Furman Universityunclassified
$71k
funders
9
9
9
9
10
13
15
14
10

4 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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: $865k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Metropolitan Arts Council). These are real filings, and they are not money GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL raised.

From the IRS filings of GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL’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

GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

32%
largest funder
50%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 26% · 2019 45% · 2020 48% · 2021 31% · 2022 32% · 2023 24% — 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

46% of GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

85% of GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL's grant income comes from South Carolina funders.

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SC

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

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’23
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 25 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 GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL

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 South Carolina

Fall for Greenville Inc82%Greenville Theatre82%Greenwood Performing Arts Inc Sanders81%Greenwood Community Theatre Inc80%Greenville Concert Band80%Arts Center of Coastal Carolina80%Metropolitan Arts Council80%Spoleto Festival USA Inc80%

Nationally

Savannah Music Festivalinc84%North Carolina Folk Festival83%Cultural Festivals83%Greenville Arts Council83%Fall for Greenville Inc82%Thomasville Cultural Center Inc82%Greenville Theatre82%Carolina Theatre of Greensboro Inc81%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 2%Fundraising 1%

Governance

56
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL: 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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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 GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL?
GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL (South Carolina) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $969,775 to it, the largest being FRED COLLINS FOUNDATION ($315,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $969,775 in grants to GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL?
FRED COLLINS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $315,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREENVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25funders 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