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UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION INC

EIN 56-6064850 WINSTON SALEM, NC

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Revenue 2024
$10,536,394
Expenses 2024
$8,262,346

Program services were 80.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B110
Classification
1200
Street
PO BOX 12189

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

UNCSA FOUNDATION'S PRIMARY PURPOSE IS TO FINANCIALLY SUPPORT THE ADVANCEMENT AND ACHIEVEMENT OF THE STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND STAFF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS. THE UNCSA FOUNDATION STRIVES TO SUPPORT THE STRATEGIC INITIATIVES OF THE UNCSA.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the UNCSA.

  • THE UNCSA FOUNDATION, INC. COORDINATES THE FUNDING OF THE UNCSA'S PROGRAMS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND GUEST ARTISTS. THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ("UNCSA") IS DEDICATED ENTIRELY TO THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF THE STUDENTS POSSESSING EXCEPTIONAL TALENTS IN PERFORMING, VISUAL, AND MOVING IMAGE ARTS. UNCSA IS COMMITTED TO THE IDEA THAT ART COMBINES CRAFT, IMAGINATION, PASSION AND INTELLECT. SCHOLARSHIPS CAN BE AWARDED BASED ON TALENT, DEMONSTRATED NEED, OR A COMBINATION OF BOTH. UNCSA PROVIDES STUDENTS WITH THE INVALUABLE EXPERIENCE OF WORKING WITH MANY INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED ARTISTS WHO TEACH MASTER CLASSES, WORK ONE-ON-ONE WITH STUDENTS IN COACHING SESSIONS, AND TEACH CLASSES. UNCSA STRIVES TO IMPROVE THE CULTURE OF NORTH CAROLINA THROUGH COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TO FURTHER THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS.

    Expenses $6,678,049 · Grants $4,043,112 · Revenue $927,883

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Erin Jones Adams

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Howard Upchurch

    Assistant Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • McDara Folan

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Melinda B Mueller

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • William R Watson

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Anne Sessions

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Caroline Munroe

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Christopher J Chapman

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Craig D Cannon

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Doug Henderson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • James Ruffin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jonathan Cochrane

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joseph P Logan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • L Duane Davis

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Laura B Dugan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Laura Ramsay

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Meade Willis

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael L Rogers

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ralph H Womble

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sandlin Douglas

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Scott Cawood

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shelley Holden

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stacy Petronzio

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stephen Berlin

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Cynthia B Liberty

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $211,000
    From this org
    $184,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,000
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $184,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $15,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $12,000
    Filer's total
    $211,000

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $10,536,394
    Expenses
    $8,262,346
    Contributions
    $9,608,511
    Grants paid
    $4,043,112
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $9,736,393
    Expenses
    $7,413,345
    Contributions
    $8,877,350
    Grants paid
    $3,544,615
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,254,667
    Expenses
    $6,762,991
    Contributions
    $6,657,876
    Grants paid
    $3,043,973

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,169,519
    Expenses
    $7,360,858
    Assets (EOY)
    $99,229,839
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,329,579
    Expenses
    $5,265,734
    Assets (EOY)
    $100,114,820
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,701,083
    Expenses
    $7,603,435
    Assets (EOY)
    $76,048,543
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,091,627
    Expenses
    $5,833,418
    Assets (EOY)
    $76,961,641
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $10,826,116
    Expenses
    $6,169,692
    Assets (EOY)
    $64,476,027
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $15,775,900
    Expenses
    $12,522,500
    Assets (EOY)
    $61,207,687
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,221,350
    Expenses
    $3,842,839
    Assets (EOY)
    $47,715,541
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,579,841
    Expenses
    $3,229,349
    Assets (EOY)
    $43,329,726
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,609,164
    Expenses
    $2,810,121
    Assets (EOY)
    $37,733,698
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,891,058
    Assets (EOY)
    $31,335,206

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • UNC SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

    $3,921,921

    2024 PAYMENTS FOR SCHOLARSHIPS, FACULTY SABBATICALS AND GRANTS

  • UNC SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

    $3,439,164

    2023 PAYMENTS FOR SCHOLARSHIPS, FACULTY SABBATICALS AND GRANTS

  • UNC SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

    $2,948,413

    2022 PAYMENTS FOR SCHOLARSHIPS, FACULTY SABBATICALS AND GRANTS

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • UNCSA Foundation Management LLC

    Accepts real estate donations and facilitates real estate purchases · NC · income $109,685 · assets $0

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.