North Carolina · Nonprofit
UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC
UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,978,459 to it, the largest being THE JOSEPH M BRYAN FOUNDATION ($350,250). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What United Arts Council of Greensboro Inc does
Mission
The arts council of greater greensboro (the acgg) is dedicated to fostering creativity and enriching the cultural lives of all residents. The acgg strives to support, promote, and elevate local arts and cultural organizations, making a lasting impact in the community. Founded in 1960, the acgg is focused on the sustainability of the arts ecosystem across guilford county, promoting the arts as an economic driver and innovative programs that build partnerships, collaboration, and cooperation across the sector. Key programs include shared services, grants, marketing support, advocacy, and professional development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The arts council of greater greensboro, founded in 1960, was initially established as a steward of funding for the arts community. Today, the arts council of greater greensboro not only invests in more than 50 arts organizations, projects, teachers, and artists by awarding resources through a variety of competitive grant programs, but also provides strategic leadership, advocacy, collaborative initiatives, marketing, and promotional services, and has served as an "incubator" for many emerging arts organizations such as the north carolina folk festival and casa azul. The arts council of greater greensboro managed the van dyke performance space located in the greensboro cultural center and the historic sternberger artists center.
$1,277,820 spentof which $734,418 as grants$6,772 earned by the program89% of program spendingShared services provides back-office support including financial statements, budget development, cash flow analysis and contract negotiations, at below-market rates for non-profit arts organizations. The program is a means of building internal capacity within small and emerging arts organizations, assisting in their growth and long-term sustainability, and providing affordable access to financial planning tools.
$114,746 spent$17,500 earned by the program8% of program spendingSternberger artists center - owned and operated by the arts council of greater greensboro to provide low cost studios for artists. The arts council of greater greensboro is responsible for the operating expenses and capital improvements to the facility, funded in part by rental income from the studios.
$48,428 spent$35,760 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,440,994.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.0M to $991k (−51%).
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 28% · 2018 16% · 2019 27% · 2020 12% · 2021 59% · 2022 40% · 2023 70% · 2024 70% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Laura Way
President/CEO
Board chair
Lindsay Morgan
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $103k → $318k.
8 of 52 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $601k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. 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 GREENSBORO INC 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
31% 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 UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 64% · 2019 49% · 2020 37% · 2021 26% · 2022 27% · 2023 24% — 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
39% of UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
74% of UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO 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. $482k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 GREENSBORO INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $185k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$185k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO 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
79% 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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- 17 Days Festival LLC · disregarded
- Shared Services to Build Financial Capacity LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC: 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 UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC?
- UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,978,459 to it, the largest being THE JOSEPH M BRYAN FOUNDATION ($350,250). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $1,978,459 in grants to UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC?
- THE JOSEPH M BRYAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $350,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO 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 52 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing