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GREATER CHARLOTTE CULTURAL TRUST

EIN 82-0576292 CHARLOTTE, NC

Revenue 2023
$1,560,264
Expenses 2023
$12,985,027

Program services were 96.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Street
220 NORTH TRYON STREET

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).

Other organizations at this address

4 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

GROWING AND SUSTAINING A VIBRANT CULTURAL COMMUNITY IN CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG BY PROVIDING ENDOWMENT MANAGEMENT AND OVERSIGHT AND INVESTMENT EXPERTISE TO BUILD AND GROW PERMANENT FUNDS FOR THE AREA'S ARTS, SCIENCE, AND HISTORY ORGANIZATIONS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE GREATER CHARLOTTE CULTURAL TRUST MANAGES CHARITABLE PERMANENT FUNDS IN SUPPORT OF THE ARTS & SCIENCE COUNCIL CHARLOTTE/MECKLENBURG AND ITS CULTURAL PARTNERS.

  • HISTORIC, ARTS & SCIENCES: THE TRUST OVERSEES THE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT TO HELP SUSTAIN AND GROW THE PERMANENT FUNDS OF THE ARTS & SCIENCE COUNCIL OF CHARLOTTE/MECKLENBURG AND ITS CULTURAL PARTNERS THROUGH INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT. BY AGGREGATING THE ENDOWMENTS OF ALL CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS WITH THE ASSETS OF FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS, THE TRUST PROVIDES COMPETITIVE FEES AND ACCESS TO INVESTMENT MANAGERS AND EXPERTISE.

    Expenses $12,507,939 · Grants $12,107,382

As filed on the 2023 return.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Doug Benson

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $422,326
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $375,935
    Other
    $46,391
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 50 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $247,558 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $127,150 related
    Other
    $0 + $1,227 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $34,680 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $11,711 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $422,326 related

  • Adam Santalla

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $73,077
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $71,849
    Other
    $1,228
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Richard Nichols

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Baker Burleson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Torrey Feimster

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Kelly Lineberger

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Joy Kenefick

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Brad Kutrow

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • John Nurkin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Dick Payne

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • Eugene Young

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,560,264
    Expenses
    $12,985,027
    Contributions
    $1,555,232
    Grants paid
    $12,107,382
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,358,257
    Expenses
    $8,415,178
    Contributions
    $1,358,238
    Grants paid
    $7,536,316

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

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,859,147
    Expenses
    $5,689,377
    Assets (EOY)
    $187,755,408

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,795,412
    Expenses
    $8,175,961
    Assets (EOY)
    $215,607,180

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,357,736
    Expenses
    $14,679,534
    Assets (EOY)
    $173,742,321

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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 on its 2023 return

Declared as related by

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.