North Carolina · Nonprofit
OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER INC
OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $449,307 to it, the largest being BERNARD A EGAN FOUNDATION INC ($257,150). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $449k
- Net assets
- $685k
What Open Hearts Art Center Inc does
Mission
Open hearts art center is supportive studio and art gallery dedicated to representing and empowering adults with varied abilities to connect to and reach their potential through the arts
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided a habilitative day program environment in person and via telehealth for approximately 51 individuals living with intellectual and developmental and developmental disabilities to work on set goals for the accomplishment of independence. These set goals included but are not limited to their social, physical, and intrapersonal well being. In this environment, visual, performance, multi-dimensional, and linguistical arts classes are held 5 days a week, 6 hours a day, approximately 248 days of the year. Open hearts is the only program in the community that provides college level arts classes at a pace designed for this population.
$1,041,786 spent99% of program spendingThe boundless art project is an initiative project is an initiative project of open hearts to integrate our clients deeper with its local arts community. This project made it possible for client artists to take art related, educational, and local trips. This is also the time where client artists helped to maintain their booths at various vending locations, make contacts in their art communities and practice the necessary social and business skills needed to turn their art into a meaningful living.
$11,003 spent1% of program spendingProvided the supplies, guidance, and marketing of arts and held live events and 12 opportunities throughout the year to sell their work to the public. Open hearts art center artists sold $79,442 in artwork.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,052,789.
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 2019 to 2020, from $356k to $650k (+82%).
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: 2020 15% · 2021 3% · 2022 19% · 2023 19% · 2024 6% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $12k → $83k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER 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
OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 59% · 2019 45% · 2020 78% · 2021 100% · 2022 95% · 2023 71% — 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
11% of OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER INC draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER INC?
- OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $449,307 to it, the largest being BERNARD A EGAN FOUNDATION INC ($257,150). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $449,307 in grants to OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER INC?
- BERNARD A EGAN FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $257,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER 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 13 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