North Carolina · Nonprofit
UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC
UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,982 to it, the largest being GEORGE FOUNDATION INC ($60,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $704k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $268k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What United Arts Council of Catawba County Inc does
Mission
Advancing the cultural life of catawba county through grants, marketing and fundraising
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Allocation of affiliates and other arts programs including grassroots operating funds provided through joint fund raising activities for local 501 (c) (3) organizations which promote the arts, and grants received from state and matched locally to provide assistance to local organizations for promotion of the arts, typically this is used to fund special productions which provide local residents with opportunity to view north carolina dance, theatre and other quality artist performances and to educate students on the importance and forms of art
$588,027 spentof which $514,178 as grants$8,788 earned by the program100% of program spendingScholarships and grants to assist individual artist in developing their skills and promotion of their arts
Building maintenance services-the united arts council previously provided employment staffing for the maintenance and upkeep of the building where affiliated organizations are housed. This cost covers the ending cost of maintaining the various facilities owned by the salt block foundaiton inc
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $588,027.
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.
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 $1.3M to $2.0M (+56%).
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: 2017 51% · 2018 50% · 2019 51% · 2020 53% · 2021 61% · 2022 39% · 2023 54% · 2024 68% · 2025 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC’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. 1 of the last 9 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
Ingrid Keller
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $7k → $58k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY 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
UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 100% · 2020 43% · 2021 31% · 2022 37% · 2023 34% — 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
22% of UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
96% of UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC'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. $65k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half 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
Organizations like UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC?
- UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,982 to it, the largest being GEORGE FOUNDATION INC ($60,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $267,982 in grants to UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY INC?
- GEORGE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF CATAWBA COUNTY 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.
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 16 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