North Carolina · Nonprofit
SECCA Foundation
SECCA Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $843,366 to it, the largest being THE ARTS COUNCIL INC ($320,029). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $843k
- Net assets
- $0
What SECCA Foundation does
Mission
Form 990 - Organizations mission or most significant activities The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art offers numerous ways to experience the art of our time. Through visual art exhibitions, music, dance, theater, and education we start conversations that engage diverse communities and perspectives.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Exhibitions music programs - SECCA presents exhibitions music programs that are international in scope and cognizant of the issues, ideas and technologies influencing the art of today. The exhibit music program presents the arts from a global arena that explores contemporary topics through wide-ranging conversations. SECCA uses thematic group exhibitions and one-person shows, panel discussions, traveling exhibitions, and music to accomplish this objective. SECCA is animated by a series of temporary exhibitions that run anywhere from 3-6 months in duration. SECCA presents exhibitions that vary widely in scope and content from solo exhibitions to large-scale thematic exhibitions.
$516,731 spent$90,991 earned by the program87% of program spendingEducation - SECCA is committed to engaging its diverse public through a variety of educational programs that are offered in a supportive and welcoming environment. As a learning laboratory, SECCA employs dynamic and innovative teaching strategies and tools to connect learners with contemporary art in a broader social context. SECCA actively collaborates with other community organizations to extend the impact of its educational programs through offsite and long-distance outreach programs.
$77,370 spent13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $594,101.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $203k 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: 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of SECCA Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 2 of the last 3 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 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $70k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 SECCA Foundation’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
SECCA Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 SECCA Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 54% · 2021 48% · 2022 71% · 2023 64% — 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 SECCA Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
96% of SECCA Foundation's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $231k 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.
Against its field
SECCA Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,778 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,778 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Organizations like SECCA Foundation
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
47% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
36%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SECCA Foundation: 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 SECCA Foundation?
- SECCA Foundation (North Carolina) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $843,366 to it, the largest being THE ARTS COUNCIL INC ($320,029). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SECCA Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $843,366 in grants to SECCA Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SECCA Foundation?
- THE ARTS COUNCIL INC is the largest funder on record, with $320,029 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SECCA Foundation 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 10 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