North Carolina · Nonprofit
McColl Center for Art Innovation
McColl Center for Art Innovation (North Carolina) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,280,849 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($4,238,694). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $9.3M
- Net assets
- $14M
What McColl Center for Art Innovation does
Mission
We envision a community where contemporary artists and an engaged public enhance their creative capacity through relevant, diverse, and accessible experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Studios, co-op, + labsthe studios at mccoll center is a studio rental program designed to build a creative community and support emerging local artists in the region. Our studios are available for rent by artists at subsidized rates, while offering access to our communal labs for printmaking, 3d printing and laser cutting, digital media, ceramics, woodworking, and sculpture fabrication. Artist studios at mccoll center maintain a thriving community of artists who participate in public events, share their practices and ideas, and enrich fellow artists both within the building and in the local community.the co-op program is an additional way to offer tangible, direct options that empower artists and creatives to thrive by opening flexible access to mccoll center labs, tools, space and resources. Our co-op program was created to give local artists access to our facilities and join our community. We looked for artists who received a grant and needed facilities and space to create the work, were expanding their current concept in scale or medium, needed temporary access to our labs to create new work or develop an idea, and were proficient in their chosen medium but wanted to have…
$698,045 spent49% of program spendingPublic engagementcreativity camps (july-august 2024, june 2025) are a series of week-long, full day art camps designed for young artists to spark imagination, encourage self-discovery, and make lifelong connections to many expressions of art. Camps included ceramics, digital illustration, mixed media, fashion, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, and painting.young artist studio series (6-week series) is designed for young artists in grades 2nd through 8th who want to delve into and master the basics of a specific medium. Participants chose from several exciting courses: fashion, digital illustration and ceramic sculpture. Teaching artists guided students through the fundamentals of their chosen medium; fostering creativity and encouraging exploration.adult artist studio series (6-week series) is for artists of any skill level who want to learn new techniques and expand their practice. Whether they are just beginning their journey or looking to try a new medium, our teaching artists guided them through the process and helped them make it their own. Rather than focusing on specific projects or a finished product, these classes helped artists apply new skills to play and take risks and…
$442,342 spent31% of program spendingArtists-in-residencemccoll centers nationally acclaimed artist-in-residence program provided space and time to 13 artists to develop their practice, take risks, and explore ideas within the context of charlotte: ioannis anastasiou (poland/greece), balam bartolom (mexico), chakaia booker (ny), jen clay (fl), majka dokudowicz (poland), claire keister (nc), andrew leventis (nc), cathy mcclure (wa), jlia ponts (ny/brazil), oswaldo ruiz chapa (mexico), phil sanders (nc), sepideh tajalizadeh dashti (tn/iran), michael webster (nc).in addition, mccoll center partnered with the mint museum to host two artists-in-residence who received studio space, lab access, and professional support: maya goded (mexico0 and laura walkingstick (nc).
$276,328 spent20% of program spendingExhibitionsmccoll center presented fourteen exhibitions during the year, all offered to the public with no admission fee. These exhibitions showcased local, national, and international artists and presented a wide range of perspectives, material approaches, and themes.summer exhibitions included the 2024 artist-in-residence showcase, featuring work by the parent and educator artists-in-residence, and splinter and seed, which explored the creative and conceptual potential of wood through the work of local and regional artists. Liminal divine brought together fellowship artists working in media ranging from documentary photography and sound to metalwork, sculpture, and fiber, examining the sacred moments found in the everyday.fall exhibitions included american honey, featuring ten queer artists reimagining americana across multiple media; the audacity, a group exhibition that interrogated the goldilocks dilemma and the conflicting expectations placed on women; the fall 2025 artist-in-residence showcase; and two pop-up exhibitions featuring additional work by the artists-in-residence.winter exhibitions included the ties that bind, a photographic series documenting mccoll center…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,416,715.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $15M to $14M (−12%).
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 4% · 2018 9% · 2019 7% · 2020 3% · 2021 31% · 2022 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of McColl Center for Art Innovation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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 broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $645k → $1.0M.
9 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 McColl Center for Art Innovation’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
McColl Center for Art Innovation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 McColl Center for Art Innovation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 74% · 2019 57% · 2020 52% · 2021 51% · 2022 72% · 2023 47% — 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
53% of McColl Center for Art Innovation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
52% of McColl Center for Art Innovation'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 $4.4M that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
McColl Center for Art Innovation receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $9.3M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding McColl Center for Art Innovation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $210k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$185k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$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 McColl Center for Art Innovation
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
61% 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 McColl Center for Art Innovation: 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 McColl Center for Art Innovation?
- McColl Center for Art Innovation (North Carolina) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,280,849 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($4,238,694). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does McColl Center for Art Innovation have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $9,280,849 in grants to McColl Center for Art Innovation, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of McColl Center for Art Innovation?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $4,238,694 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like McColl Center for Art Innovation 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 25 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