North Carolina · Nonprofit
SURRY ARTS COUNCIL
SURRY ARTS COUNCIL (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,388,163 to it, the largest being NCFIBARNHARDT FOUNDATION ($492,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $6.6M
What Surry Arts Council does
Mission
To provide opportunities for all the people of our community to experience high-quality performances and instruction in the performing and visual arts, while ensuring continuity through financially responsible leadership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Amphitheatre - provides the community with an opportunity to enjoy outdoor performances by a variety of performing artists.
$181,916 spent$146,263 earned by the program14% of program spendingMuseum - provides the community and visitors with the opportunity to see the andy griffith collection and siamese twins exhibit.
$439,138 spent$694,516 earned by the program34% of program spendingCinema - provides community members with the opportunity to see movies
$132,721 spent$122,637 earned by the program10% of program spendingCommunity theatreclasses and workshopsin-school programstraditional musicspecial needsmayberry daysauctionperforming arts seriesscholarshipsendowmentsubgrants
$543,985 spent$528,484 earned by the program42% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,297,760.
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.
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 $4.7M to $7.0M (+49%).
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 7% · 2022 13% · 2023 4% · 2024 28% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Chief executive
Tanya Jones
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $30k → $218k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 SURRY ARTS COUNCIL’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
SURRY ARTS COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 56% · 2020 47% · 2021 55% · 2022 34% · 2023 57% — 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
45% of SURRY ARTS COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
92% of SURRY ARTS COUNCIL'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. $140k 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.
Organizations like SURRY ARTS COUNCIL
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 SURRY ARTS COUNCIL: 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 SURRY ARTS COUNCIL?
- SURRY ARTS COUNCIL (North Carolina) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,388,163 to it, the largest being NCFIBARNHARDT FOUNDATION ($492,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SURRY ARTS COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,388,163 in grants to SURRY ARTS COUNCIL, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SURRY ARTS COUNCIL?
- NCFIBARNHARDT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $492,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SURRY ARTS COUNCIL 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 15 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