North Carolina · Nonprofit
UP YOUR ARTS
UP YOUR ARTS (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $121 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($121). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $121
- Net assets
- $45k
What Up Your Arts does
Mission
Support creative and performing arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
UYA co-sponsored "Raise Up Your Arts" with the City of Southport (and 17 individual sponsors who donated $250 each) and was held from December 2024-November 2025. This project selected 24 Brunswick County artists (out of a submission pool of more than 70) whose work was displayed on banners hanging from utility poles for six months, May 2025-November 2025, in downtown Southport. An estimated 40,000 people had ongoing visual access.
$4,438 spentof which $4,250 as grants20% of program spendingUYA co-sponsored the 2025 Southport Plein Air Festival with the City of Southport on May 1-3, 2025. Over 75 artists registered for the event at $50 for two days or $75 for three days. At least 275 people attended grant-funded activities free of charge on the third day.
$6,255 spentof which $2,300 as grants28% of program spendingUYA broadcasts a calendar of upcoming live performance events in Brunswick County with an email sent to over 3,000 email subscribers and over 2,700 Facebook followers free of charge, year-round, at a cost of approximately $650/month for digital services.
$7,800 spent35% of program spendingUYA co-sponsored Banding Together: Relief for Western NC with the Spruce Pine NC Police Department to raise supplies and funds to benefit those affected by Hurricane Helene. A concert featuring local bands was held on Oak Island on November 3, 2024, uniting the community to raise over $16,800 and a truckload of supplies to support recovery efforts.
$564 spent3% of program spendingNC Relief - Special open mic event where $3,000 was raised to support food truck relief to Western NC.
$48 spent0% of program spendingUYA co-sponsored the annual Winterfest with the City of Southport December 13-14, 2024, providing musicians and audio equipment for the festivities.
$1,200 spent5% of program spendingUYA co-sponsored Opera Sunday with the University of North Carolina Wilmington Music Department in collaboration with The Friends of the Library Southport & Oak Island. Eight operatic vocalists performed for an audience of over 150 people who attended this free open to the public event.
$50 spent0% of program spendingUYA sponsored the Let's Sing Barbershop Quartet performance at the Southport Community Center on May 9, 2025. This event was free and open to the public.
$375 spent2% of program spendingUYA was paid $300/night to sponsor a weekly open mic session at American Fish Company in October 2024 and a monthly session from April-October 2025. UYA paid a master of ceremonies @ $100/night + audio to manage the range of participating local musicians and @ $50/night to the provider of and player on a drum set.
$1,550 spent7% of program spendingUYA co-sponsored the "Southport Concert Series" with the City of Southport, Downtown Southport, Inc. and Cape Fear Radio serving on a committee to plan the series and solicit and vet the musical acts. Performances were held on Thursday evenings at Franklin Square Park from Memorial Day through Labor Day 2025. UYA was in charge of managing the musical groups and directing on-site operations.
$0 spent0% of program spendingUYA ran the community entertainment division of the 2025 North Carolina 4th of July Festival. This involved coordinating with City of Southport staff and festival committee members from January-July 2025, planning and selecting artists, program marketing, and managing the performances of 5 musical groups throughout the annual four-day festival with expected crowds of 50,000.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 11 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $22,280.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2021 to 2022, from $17k to $32k (+87%).
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.
81% of UP YOUR ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Bob Gentile
Board of Directors Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $35 → $44.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 UP YOUR ARTS’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 UP YOUR ARTS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $121 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
UP YOUR ARTS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like UP YOUR ARTS
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.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UP YOUR ARTS: 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 UP YOUR ARTS?
- UP YOUR ARTS (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $121 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($121). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UP YOUR ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $121 in grants to UP YOUR ARTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UP YOUR ARTS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $121 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UP YOUR ARTS 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 2021–2025), 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