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LEAF GLOBAL ARTS

LEAF GLOBAL ARTS (North Carolina) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,027,830 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($253,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.1M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$2.4M
16/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Leaf Global Arts does

Mission

Leaf Global Arts is a non-profit organization focusing on building community, connecting cultures, and enriching lives through the arts, locally and globally, with festivals, community events, and arts education programs.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Leaf events leaf festival is leaf's founding event. An inter- generational community gathers at lake eden in black mountain, north carolina for a dynamic experience of music, art, and culture from around the globe. Leaf downtown celebrates creativity, diversity, and families in the heart of asheville, north carolina. This signature and inclusive community event encourages interpersonal exchange, cultural awareness, artistic excellence, and welcoming spaces for all walks of life.

    $1,362,521 spent$765,712 earned by the program
    76% of program spending
  2. Leaf in schools and streets a local cultural arts program that ises the arts to bridge cultures and create life-affirming, community building experiences, and empowering youth to become global citizens, leaders, and agents of positive change.

    $195,398 spent$139,986 earned by the program
    11% of program spending
  3. Leaf international a collaboration dedicated to cultural preservation, exchange, and fostering global citizenship. Leaf collaborates with communities to support culture-keepers who teach local youth their traditional arts.

    $84,050 spent$30,173 earned by the program
    5% of program spending
  4. Leaf global: the Leaf Global Arts experience is a creative immersive and interactive experience that weaves together elements of an interactive museum and an arts center.

    $153,141 spent$27,091 earned by the program
    9% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,795,110.

02The 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 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.0M) Net assets 100 ($974k)2018 Revenue 98 ($2.2M) Expenses 110 ($2.2M) Net assets 99 ($964k)2019 Revenue 116 ($2.6M) Expenses 114 ($2.3M) Net assets 154 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 67 ($1.5M) Expenses 111 ($2.2M) Net assets 218 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 108 ($2.5M) Expenses 68 ($1.4M) Net assets 329 ($3.2M)2022 Revenue 74 ($1.7M) Expenses 95 ($1.9M) Net assets 291 ($2.8M)2023 Revenue 73 ($1.7M) Expenses 95 ($1.9M) Net assets 273 ($2.7M)2024 Revenue 50 ($1.1M) Expenses 70 ($1.4M) Net assets 248 ($2.4M)
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Revenue (50)Expenses (70)Net assets (248)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.0M to $2.4M (+136%).

$980k
$1.0M
$2.4M
$2.9M
$3.8M
$3.0M
$2.8M
$2.8M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 16% · 2021 52% · 2022 4% · 2023 8% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

70% of LEAF GLOBAL ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 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.

$299k
’17
$53k
’18
$379k
’19
−$672k
’20
$1.1M
’21
−$188k
’22
−$217k
’23
−$255k
’24
3.1
months of
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.

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Listed2118192220181919
Joined·+2+2+5+5+9+5+0
No longer listed·51271140
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $59k → $60k.

7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 LEAF GLOBAL ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 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

LEAF GLOBAL ARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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

49% 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 LEAF GLOBAL ARTS.

25%
largest funder
57%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 65% · 2019 86% · 2020 71% · 2021 77% · 2022 55% · 2023 33% — broadly stable.

“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

43% of LEAF GLOBAL ARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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

71% of LEAF GLOBAL ARTS's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

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

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $321k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LEAF GLOBAL ARTS's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 8 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−23% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−10% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding LEAF GLOBAL ARTS receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $233k on record.

Federal$233k
grants $233kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$233k

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 LEAF GLOBAL 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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEAF GLOBAL 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 LEAF GLOBAL ARTS?
LEAF GLOBAL ARTS (North Carolina) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,027,830 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($253,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEAF GLOBAL ARTS have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $1,027,830 in grants to LEAF GLOBAL ARTS, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEAF GLOBAL ARTS?
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $253,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEAF GLOBAL ARTS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 29 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