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TheGifted Arts Inc

TheGifted Arts Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,306,217 to it, the largest being JOHN REX ENDOWMENT ($382,850). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$407k
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$34k
11/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 84%
01What it does

What TheGifted Arts Inc does

Mission

Our Mission is to transform the lives of youth through culturally responsive art and dismanlting systems of oppression with and through our art We envision a world where young people have the tools they need to successfully navigate life obstacles and ultimately embrace their gifts and purpose.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Giftedacademy - A signature year-round program where 205 students explore dance, Theater, Fashion, Spoken-word, and Music programming. TGA produced a number of different events tha reached 4,890 audience members

    $30,070 spentof which $26,295 as grants$37,645 earned by the program
    10% of program spending
  2. Giftedsummer - A Unique, Ful-Day, Five-week cultural performing arts camp for rising 3rd-10th grade students interested in exploring the performance arts world, with daily educational project-based recreational activities throughout the summer

    $3,107 spent$11,040 earned by the program
    1% of program spending
  3. Other program expense

    $271,107 spent$3,835 earned by the program
    89% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $304,284.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($83k) Expenses 100 ($62k) Net assets 100 ($21k)2019 Revenue 148 ($123k) Expenses 185 ($115k) Net assets 142 ($30k)2020 Revenue 228 ($189k) Expenses 237 ($147k) Net assets 345 ($73k)2021 Revenue 265 ($220k) Expenses 410 ($254k) Net assets 184 ($39k)2022 Revenue 547 ($455k) Expenses 537 ($333k) Net assets 764 ($161k)2023 Revenue 454 ($378k) Expenses 732 ($454k) Net assets 402 ($85k)2024 Revenue 528 ($439k) Expenses 690 ($428k) Net assets 455 ($96k)2025 Revenue 489 ($407k) Expenses 757 ($469k) Net assets 162 ($34k)
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Revenue (489)Expenses (757)Net assets (162)Peer revenue range

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 $118k to $336k (+185%).

$26k
$30k
$73k
$39k
$161k
$85k
$118k
$336k
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

82% of TheGifted Arts Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$21k
’18
$9k
’19
$43k
’20
−$34k
’21
$122k
’22
−$76k
’23
$11k
’24
−$62k
’25
2.4
months of
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

Nichole Morgan

Founder, CEO

Board chair

Rafik Keith

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed85666
Joined·+1+1+0+0
No longer listed·4000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $20k → $254k.

4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 TheGifted Arts Inc’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

TheGifted Arts Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

62% 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 TheGifted Arts Inc.

29%
largest funder
67%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 90% · 2019 51% · 2020 30% · 2021 43% · 2022 31% · 2023 33% — 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

71% of TheGifted Arts Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

95% of TheGifted Arts Inc's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

IL
NY
NC
GA

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. $269k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TheGifted Arts Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like TheGifted Arts Inc

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.

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 35%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

93%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds TheGifted Arts Inc?
TheGifted Arts Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,306,217 to it, the largest being JOHN REX ENDOWMENT ($382,850). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TheGifted Arts Inc have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $1,306,217 in grants to TheGifted Arts Inc, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TheGifted Arts Inc?
JOHN REX ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $382,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TheGifted Arts Inc 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 14 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