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RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC

RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $420,415 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($183,640). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$381k
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$420k
Net assets
$2.5M
13/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Raleigh Fine Arts Society Inc does

Mission

To cultivate, produce and engage in the arts and create a flourishing arts community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The choral celebration allows elementary school students the opportunity to perform in public venues and to be critiqued by adjudicators. The society had 11 participating schools, including 2 new schools. Over 500 students were involved in this two-night event and over 1,800 people attended (including the students).

    $42,980 spent
    9% of program spending
  2. The artists' exhibition is an annual statewide event that offers artists an opportunity to present their work and be juried by a renowned art professional. The exhibit featured 57 artists and 58 works from 420 artists who applied from all over north carolina.

    $85,648 spent$17,330 earned by the program
    19% of program spending
  3. The literary contest is open to students in wake county, public or private. Students present a spoken word creation, and winners are chosen by a noted spoken word artist. Winners present their works at an awards ceremony, and cash prizes are given.

    $20,739 spent
    5% of program spending
  4. The society has various other programs and services which encourage involvement in and promotion of fine arts in the community.

    $306,660 spent$57,846 earned by the program
    67% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $456,027.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($273k) Expenses 100 ($229k) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 129 ($353k) Expenses 102 ($234k) Net assets 110 ($1.7M)2019 Revenue 149 ($407k) Expenses 107 ($245k) Net assets 122 ($1.9M)2020 Revenue 144 ($393k) Expenses 79 ($182k) Net assets 131 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 108 ($294k) Expenses 49 ($114k) Net assets 167 ($2.6M)2022 Revenue 106 ($288k) Expenses 74 ($170k) Net assets 145 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 99 ($270k) Expenses 116 ($267k) Net assets 153 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 107 ($293k) Expenses 124 ($285k) Net assets 165 ($2.6M)2025 Revenue 140 ($381k) Expenses 251 ($576k) Net assets 158 ($2.5M)
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Revenue (140)Expenses (251)Net assets (158)

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 $2.1M to $2.7M (+29%).

$1.6M
$1.7M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$2.7M
$2.3M
$2.4M
$2.6M
$2.5M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$43k
’17
$119k
’18
$162k
’19
$211k
’20
$180k
’21
$118k
’22
$3k
’23
$7k
’24
−$195k
’25
4.0
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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Listed252527252826251515
Joined·+9+13+11+13+12+14+10+13
No longer listed·911131014152013
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $10k → $108k.

2 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY 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

RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

44% 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 RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC.

44%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 30% · 2019 14% · 2020 79% · 2021 56% · 2022 61% · 2023 57% — growing more concentrated.

“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

50% of RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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

96% of RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

MI
VA
DE
NC

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Organizations like RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

76%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC?
RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $420,415 to it, the largest being NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($183,640). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $420,415 in grants to RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC?
NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $183,640 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY 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 19 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