North Carolina · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE OF ART THERAPY INC
INSTITUTE OF ART THERAPY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $517,182 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($225,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $517k
- Net assets
- $0
What Institute of Art Therapy Inc does
Mission
To advance the well-being and mental health of diverse communities through accessible, strength-based, culturally-responsive art therapy, education, and research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through the newcomer art therapy project, ati contributes to the health and well-being of the growing population of refugees, immigrants and asylum seekers (collectively "newcomers") relocating to the triangle and triad areas. The newcomer art therapy project (natp) provides arts-based counseling group therapy services to newcomer children and adolescents in local schools and adults at local health clinics, resettlement agencies and community-based support groups. These group art therapy services help newcomers address issues from their past, succeed in their new school and work settings, acculturate to north carolina, and build hopes for the future.
$71,912 spent$258,365 earned by the program20% of program spendingThe art therapy institute as an annual contract with the chapel hill - carrboro city schools to service children in the exceptional children's (ec) program. This program serves all exceptional children's self-contained classrooms in the district, depending on teacher interest. Ec program clients have a variety of life challenges including autism spectrum disorders, developmental disabilities, learning impairments, social skills, emotion regulation, sensory integration and self-expression, as well as gross and fine motor skills.
$14,660 spent$37,090 earned by the program4% of program spendingBeyond the natp and the ec program, ati hosts various other smaller programs within the community.
$269,357 spent$65,721 earned by the program76% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $355,929.
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 2023 to 2024, from $134k to $0 (−100%).
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: 2017 0% · 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2021 15% · 2022 16% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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 held at 3 funders, grant income fell $46k → $20k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 INSTITUTE OF ART THERAPY 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
INSTITUTE OF ART THERAPY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 INSTITUTE OF ART THERAPY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 43% · 2019 49% · 2020 61% · 2021 46% · 2022 39% · 2023 51% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of INSTITUTE OF ART THERAPY INC'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 $16k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $501k 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.
Organizations like INSTITUTE OF ART THERAPY 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF ART THERAPY INC?
- INSTITUTE OF ART THERAPY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $517,182 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($225,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE OF ART THERAPY INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $517,182 in grants to INSTITUTE OF ART THERAPY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE OF ART THERAPY INC?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE OF ART THERAPY INC 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.
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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 7 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