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South Indian Fine Arts Academy - Sifaa
South Indian Fine Arts Academy - Sifaa (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300 to it, the largest being AbbVie Foundation ($300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $134k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $300
- Net assets
- $69k
What South Indian Fine Arts Academy - Sifaa does
Mission
SIFAA is dedicated to preserving and promoting the rich heritage of South Indian classical arts while fostering cultural enrichment and community engagement. Our mission is to provide premier platforms for renowned South Indian performing artists to showcase their excellence while also supporting and nurturing aspiring community artists in North Carolina. Through high quality concerts from professional musicians collaboration and performance opportunities for community artists we aim to celebrate tradition inspire creativity and build a rich artistic community. While our goal has always been to strive to bridge and create cultural awareness through Carnatic music SIFAA has also been keen to support and strengthen our younger generation and their love for this genre of music. The RTP area has been blessed to have a lot of practitioners and teachers who call this area home. SIFAA has conducted yearly music competitions with judges invited from India and across the US to provide ad
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Fall concert series - This series of concerts from visiting artists performing Vocal and Instrumental concerts from Sept 2025 to Dec 2025
$43,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants48% of program spendingSpring concert series - This series of concerts from visiting artists performing Vocal and Instrumental concerts from March 2025 to June 2025
$35,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants39% of program spendingSIFAA provides the platform for the community in Indian classical traditional folk dance music and art forms. We provide avenues and platforms for the artists in the community to perform learn and spread the knowledge. The goal is to facilitate learning in an engaging manner hands on learning of visual art. This continuous learning serves our goal to help the art thrive and increase the quality of performances .We plan on bringing these new aspects to showcase this year compared to last year. Triangle area has seen an explosion of people moving in from other parts of the country where a subset of people are interested in the Indian art forms.2023 Participation:- Fall Festival artists 112 Livestream Viewing 2800 On-premise foot traffic 1000+,Participants demographics 90% Adults 10% Kids Mostly Americans of Indian Origin2024 Participation goals:-Fall Festival artists 97,Livestream Viewing 3000+,On-premise foot traffic 1500+,Participants demographics 90% Adults 10% KidsMostly Americans of Indian Origin
$12,000 spentof which $12,000 as grants13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $90,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $25k to $69k (+172%).
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.
68% of South Indian Fine Arts Academy - Sifaa’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of South Indian Fine Arts Academy - Sifaa’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.
Where its funders are
South Indian Fine Arts Academy - Sifaa draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
South Indian Fine Arts Academy - Sifaa runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
55%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds South Indian Fine Arts Academy - Sifaa?
- South Indian Fine Arts Academy - Sifaa (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300 to it, the largest being AbbVie Foundation ($300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does South Indian Fine Arts Academy - Sifaa have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $300 in grants to South Indian Fine Arts Academy - Sifaa.
- Who is the largest funder of South Indian Fine Arts Academy - Sifaa?
- AbbVie Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like South Indian Fine Arts Academy - Sifaa 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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