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The Lee County Arts Council

The Lee County Arts Council (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$53k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$3k
Net assets
$4k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What The Lee County Arts Council does

Mission

The Lee County Arts Council is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that is committed to supporting artists and arts organizations in our community by providing grant opportunities and funding for performances art exhibitions and other arts programs activities and events that benefit the adults and children in our community.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. The Lee County Arts Council is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that is committed to supporting artists and arts organizations in our community by providing grant opportunities and funding for performances art exhibitions and other arts programs activities and events that benefit the adults and children in our community. This year over 17,000 participants were reached through these programs.

    $59,612 spentof which $45,077 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $59,612.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($28k) Expenses 100 ($33k) Net assets 100 ($2k)2023 Revenue 228 ($64k) Expenses 187 ($61k) Net assets 266 ($5k)2024 Revenue 317 ($89k) Expenses 256 ($83k) Net assets 765 ($14k)2025 Revenue 190 ($53k) Expenses 183 ($60k) Net assets 241 ($4k)
2022202320242025
Revenue (190)Expenses (183)Net assets (241)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $14k to $4k (−69%).

$2k
$5k
$14k
$4k
2022202320242025
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.

2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$4k
’22
$3k
’23
$6k
’24
−$6k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'20
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of The Lee County 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.

Where its funders are

100% of The Lee County Arts Council's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like The Lee County 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

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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 The Lee County 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 The Lee County Arts Council?
The Lee County Arts Council (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Lee County Arts Council have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to The Lee County Arts Council.
Who is the largest funder of The Lee County Arts Council?
DUKE ENERGY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Lee County 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 2022–2025), 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