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Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated

Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $347,587 to it, the largest being FREDERICK LOEWE FOUNDATION INC ($61,009). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$4.3M
Revenue FY2025
20
Funders on record
$348k
Grants received
$3.7M
Net assets
10/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%

Against its field

Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin45% · top quartile
Months of reserve10.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($705k)2018 Revenue 102 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 98 ($693k)2019 Revenue 102 ($1.3M) Expenses 96 ($1.3M) Net assets 102 ($722k)2020 Revenue 96 ($1.3M) Expenses 95 ($1.3M) Net assets 99 ($697k)2021 Revenue 58 ($771k) Expenses 61 ($840k) Net assets 108 ($764k)2022 Revenue 181 ($2.4M) Expenses 119 ($1.6M) Net assets 213 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 128 ($1.7M) Expenses 113 ($1.6M) Net assets 235 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 149 ($2.0M) Expenses 136 ($1.9M) Net assets 251 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 326 ($4.3M) Expenses 174 ($2.4M) Net assets 527 ($3.7M)
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Revenue (326)Expenses (174)Net assets (527)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 10% · 2018 10% · 2019 10% · 2020 21% · 2021 36% · 2022 39% · 2023 9% · 2024 8% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

62% of Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$50k
17
$17k
18
$26k
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$27k
20
$68k
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$757k
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$152k
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$104k
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$1.9M
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11
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $35k.

7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)25% 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 Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated’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

Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

56% 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 Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated.

18%
largest funder
43%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 59% · 2020 36% · 2021 38% · 2022 39% · 2023 43%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

50% of Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 7 states in all.

MN
NY
MA
DE
NC
GA
TX

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

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In North Carolina

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 19%Fundraising 9%

Governance

23
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated?
Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $347,587 to it, the largest being FREDERICK LOEWE FOUNDATION INC ($61,009). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $347,587 in grants to Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated?
FREDERICK LOEWE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $61,009 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts Incorporated 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.

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 20funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing