South Carolina · Nonprofit
GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS (South Carolina) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,283,820 to it, the largest being Bill and Connie Timmons Foundation ($496,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $526k
- Funders on record
- 34
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Greenville Center for Creative Arts does
Mission
The Greenville Center for Creative Arts exists to enrich the cultural fabric of the communities we serve by providing a nurturing environment for art-education, appreciation and enjoyment, and by establishing a lasting legacy in the visual arts for greenville county and beyond. Located in the village of west greenville in the former historic brandon mill, the Greenville Center for Creative Arts opened its doors to the public on may 1, 2015. The gcca is a year-round art center providing art classes, exhibition space, art studio rentals, and a supportive facility for the larger community and tri-state region to access and experience art in a dedicated creative space. In addition to year-round art classes and workshops, the gcca offers free art activities to the general public to access art lectures, gallery openings and kids art activities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Art education. Year - round art school providing greenville county residents, tourists, and visitors access to art classes and workshops. We offer classes to children to senior adults who desire to learn a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, clay, fiber, and jewelry. We offer after - school programs, weekend workshops, adult classes.
$641,023 spent$166,968 earned by the program96% of program spendingGallery and exhibit space. Year-round art gallery and exhibition space dedicated to showcasing local and regional artists. Volunteer exhibition committee serves as curators of the gallery and coordinates 6-8 exhibits per calendar year that are free and open to the public. Coordinating and accompanying lecture is available monthly and free and open to the public.
$83,183 earned by the programArt studios and collaboration space. Year-round art studio rentals for 15 working artists who have access from 7:30 am to 10:30 pm seven days per week to create, market, sell and showcase their diverse art portfolios. The gcca facility supports increased communication, collaboration and events to support the artists selling their work. Gcca offers a brandon fellowship program to three younger artists who aspire to have a full-time career in art but need a supportive environment that provides a mentor, access to classes, stipends for supplies and paid-for studio for 12-months.
The center makes the facility accessible to the general public for various purposes. All such usage is structured to provide the highest level of exposure to art atmosphere, studio art, and gallery exhibits. This directly enhances the value of the center to the community and raises awareness of visual arts and artists.
$29,808 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $670,831.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.7M to $3.7M (+35%).
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
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.
Chief executive
Jessica Abbott
CEO
Board chair
Bradley Wingate
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $152k → $130k.
5 of 34 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 34 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; 65% 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 68% 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.
Against its field
GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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
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.
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS?
- GREENVILLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS (South Carolina) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,283,820 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 34 organizations giving $1,283,820 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.
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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 34 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