The Arts Council Inc
Winstonsalem, NC · EIN 56-0526856. Reported 128 grants totalling $5,144,207 to 59 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 59 distinct organizations, with 19% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 76% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $29,112. Half of what it reported fell between $12,500 and $49,866; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $684,700. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gladness Partners LLC | Winstonsalem, NC | $955,700 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Winston Salem Symphony Assoc | Winston Salem, NC | $318,528 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Black Repertory Company Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $283,494 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Little Theatre of Winston-Salem Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $234,281 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Riverrun International Film Festival | Winston Salem, NC | $190,787 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Secca Foundation | Winston Salem, NC | $189,780 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| 1 Love Festival | Winstonsalem, NC | $168,782 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Piedmont Craftsmen Inc | Winstonsalem, NC | $166,188 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Piedmont Opera Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $164,226 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Sawtooth School for Visual Art | Winston Salem, NC | $155,622 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Authoring Action | Winston Salem, NC | $131,550 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Triad Cultural Arts Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $129,691 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Reynolda House Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $116,264 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Center for Creative Economy | Winston Salem, NC | $115,671 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bookmarks | Winston Salem, NC | $115,576 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Tre 4 Center of Fine Arts Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $98,367 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Piedmont Wind Symphony | Winston Salem, NC | $95,729 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Downtown Winston-Salem Community Cinema | Winston Salem, NC | $95,498 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| ACTION4EQUITY | Winston Salem, NC | $90,737 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts Incorporated | Winston Salem, NC | $88,815 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| High Point Ballet | High Point, NC | $83,300 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Rebeca Segebre Ministries Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $79,994 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dose Collective Corp | Winston Salem, NC | $74,072 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Hispanic League | Winston Salem, NC | $72,649 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Royal Curtain Drama Guild Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $70,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Korners Folly Foundation | Kernersville, NC | $56,975 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Winston-Salem Mixxer Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $55,400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Winston Salem Theatre Alliance Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $53,331 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Senior Services Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Cmpnd | Winstonsalem, NC | $49,995 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Afas Group | Winston Salem, NC | $43,553 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Creative Center of North Carolina Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $41,145 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arts District of Winston-Salem Association Inc | Winstonsalem, NC | $40,950 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools | Winstonsalem, NC | $37,926 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Old Salem Incorporated | Winston Salem, NC | $37,404 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of North Carolina School of the Arts | Winstonsalem, NC | $34,336 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Dream School | Winston Salem, NC | $30,644 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Songbird Supperclub | Winstonsalem, NC | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cashmere Baby Expo | Jacksonville, FL | $27,980 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Art Shac Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Red Hawks American Indian Educational and Culture Awareness | Kernersville, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Piedmont Jazz Alliance | Winstonsalem, NC | $19,399 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kernersville Little Theatre Inc | Kernersville, NC | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tam Tam Mandigue Academy Winston-Salem | Winstonsalem, NC | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Music Carolina | Winston Salem, NC | $17,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Downtown Winston-Salem Partnership Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Kaleideum | Winston Salem, NC | $15,054 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shallow Ford Foundation Inc | Clemmons, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The North Carolina Writers Network Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| 6AM City Inc | Greenville, SC | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Muse Winston-Salem | Winstonsalem, NC | $12,248 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Arts Council of Greater Greensboro Inc | Greensboro, NC | $12,100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Camel City Playhouse | Winston Salem, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Spring Theatre | Winston Salem, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Happy Hill Neighborhood Association Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $9,278 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation Inc | Winston Salem, NC | $8,298 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Carolina Music Ways Music Heritage Resource Group | Winston Salem, NC | $8,100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Krossroads Playhouse Inc | Kernersville, NC | $7,290 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Enrichment Center An Affiliated Chapter of the Arc | Winston Salem, NC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
36 of 59 (61%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 44 of 59 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 21 | $922,236 | $33,128 |
| 2021 | 23 | $1,298,696 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 40 | $1,223,777 | $20,444 |
| 2023 | 44 | $1,699,498 | $33,196 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $29,112 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Arts Council Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 41 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 3 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 251 North Spruce St, Winstonsalem, NC, 27101.
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