South Carolina · Nonprofit
GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS (South Carolina) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,276,320 to it, the largest being Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation ($496,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS is better cushioned than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Metropolitan Arts Councillocalportfolio match
- United Way of Greenville County Incshared funderslocal
- Canal Charitable Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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.
50% of GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $152k → $130k.
5 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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 CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 39% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 71% · 2019 62% · 2020 52% · 2021 35% · 2022 38% · 2023 35% — 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
44% of GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
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 33 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Metropolitan Arts Councillocalportfolio matchSC · funds 15 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Greenville County Incshared funderslocalSC · backs 75 organizations that share your funders · funds 111 organizations near you
- Canal Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Downtown Greensboro Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Francis Hospital Incshared funderslocalSC · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 21 organizations near you
- Sisk Foundation Buncombe St Methodist Churchshared funderslocalSC · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · funds 33 organizations near you
- Spinks Family Foundationshared funderslocalSC · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · funds 36 organizations near you
- AWT Family Foundationshared funderslocalDE · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 29 organizations near you
- Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundationshared fundersFL · backs 31 organizations that share your funders
- Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolinashared fundersOH · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- Prisma Health-Upstateshared funderslocalSC · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · funds 84 organizations near you
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.
Government funding GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
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 GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: 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 GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS?
- GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS (South Carolina) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,276,320 to it, the largest being Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation ($496,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,276,320 in grants to GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS?
- Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $496,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 33funders 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