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Artist Communities Alliance

Believing the cultivation of new art and ideas is essential to human progress, our mission is to advocate for and support artists' communities, in order to advance the endeavors of artists.

$543k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$459kHousing & Shelter$35kEducation$30kCommunity Improvement$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $331,018, the rows itemized in this filing. The $542,801 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $211,783 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $199k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$15,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANCING IN THE STREETS INC$70,018
THE ANDERSON CENTER$31,000
LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL$31,000
FSU FOUNDATION$30,000
HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS$20,000
MONTALVO$20,000
ART OMI$19,000
CROSSTOWN ARTS$18,000
THE STUDIOS AT MASS MOCA$15,000
KALA ART INSTITUTE$15,000
BOOM CONCEPTS$9,000
PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFT$9,000
HEDGEBROOK$9,000
HYDE PARK ART CENTER$9,000
SURF POINT FOUNDATION$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE STUDIOS AT MASS MOCA: $15k → 12%THE ANDERSON CENTER: $31k → 9%CAMARGO FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%BOOM CONCEPTS: $9k → 11%DJERASSI RESIDENT ARTISTS PROGRAM: $10k → 7%HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $20k → 8%KALA ART INSTITUTE: $15k → 10%WASSAIC PROJECT: $9k → 9%ART OMI: $19k → 11%WOMEN'S STUDIO WORKSHOP: $6k → 16%LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL: $31k → 17%DANCING IN THE STREETS INC: $70k → 28%FSU FOUNDATION: $30k → 19%CROSSTOWN ARTS: $18k → 17%AS220: $4k → 14%HEDGEBROOK: $9k → 7%HYDE PARK ART CENTER: $9k → 14%UCROSS FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%THE NEW QUORUM: $6k → 23%SURF POINT FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%THE STUDIOS AT MASS MOCA: $8k → 12%CAMARGO FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%BOOM CONCEPTS: $6k → 11%DJERASSI RESIDENT ARTISTS PROGRAM: $5k → 7%HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $14k → 8%KALA ART INSTITUTE: $6k → 10%WASSAIC PROJECT: $8k → 9%CIVITELLA RANIERI FOUNDATION: $17k → 17%CROSSTOWN ARTS: $6k → 17%CAMARGO FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $9k → 8%CIVITELLA RANIERI FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%CAMARGO FOUNDATION: $9k → 14%HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $7k → 8%CAMARGO FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%CAMARGO FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
WY
PA
RI
CA
NM
TN
NC
LA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$298k · 11 repeat orgs$247k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$298k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+536%

Still filing today

91%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HC
    HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    4× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +76%
  • TC
    THE CAMARGO FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +59%
  • CR
    CIVITELLA RANIERI FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $32k · revenue +128%

Funded once

  • UF
    UCROSS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +536%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • A2
    AS 220
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +5%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Galveston Artist Residency
Arts & Culture
2
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
3
Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation
Arts & Culture
4
California Institute of Contemporary Art
—
5
The Kranzberg Arts Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
The Florence Center for Contemporary Music
Arts & Culture
7
Berggruen Institute
Education
8
Willapa Bay AiR
Arts & Culture
9
International Contemporary Art Foundatio
Arts & Culture
10
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
11
San Francisco Art Studio Foundation
—
12
(402) Arts Collective

Cultivating a vibrant network of artists who create community and impact culture.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hyde Park Art Center; the most unlike its peers is The Camargo Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DANCING IN THE STREETS INC: $70,018 · Arts & CultureDANCING IN THE STREETS INCHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $49,500 · Arts & CultureHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTSMONTALVO ASSOCIATION: $34,500 · Arts & CultureMONTALVO ASSOCIATIONLOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC: $31,000 · Arts & CultureLOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INCCrosstown Arts: $24,250 · Arts & CultureCrosstown ArtsKala Art Institute: $21,250 · Arts & CultureKala Art InstituteTHE WASSAIC PROJECT INC: $16,250 · Arts & CultureTHE WASSAIC PROJECT INC+6 more: $45,470 · Arts & Culture+6 moreTHE CAMARGO FOUNDATION: $49,500 · OtherTHE CAMARGO FOUNDATIONCIVITELLA RANIERI FOUNDATION INC: $31,500 · OtherCIVITELLA RANIERI FOUNDAT…THE STUDIOS AT MASS MOCA: $22,500 · OtherTHE STUDIOS AT MASS MOCADJERASSI RESIDENT ARTISTS PROGRAM: $15,000 · OtherDJERASSI RESIDENT ARTISTS…Individual grant recipient: $6,250 · OtherANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC: $31,000 · EducationANDERSON CENTER …The Florida State University Foundation Inc: $30,000 · EducationThe Florida Stat…SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE INC: $18,750 · EducationSANTA FE ART INS…ART OMI INC: $19,000 · InternationalUCROSS FOUNDATION: $14,500 · PhilanthropyBLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION: $14,500 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$292,238Other$124,750Education$79,750International$19,000Philanthropy$14,500Community Improvement$14,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDANCING IN THE STREETS INC: $70,018 over 1y, 13% of budgetHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $49,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CAMARGO FOUNDATION: $49,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetMONTALVO ASSOCIATION: $34,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCIVITELLA RANIERI FOUNDATION INC: $31,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC: $31,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES INC: $31,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrosstown Arts: $24,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKala Art Institute: $21,250 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetART OMI INC: $19,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA FE ART INSTITUTE INC: $18,750 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE WASSAIC PROJECT INC: $16,250 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDJERASSI RESIDENT ARTISTS PROGRAM: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUCROSS FOUNDATION: $14,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION: $14,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHEDGEBROOK: $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPenland School Of Craft: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHYDE PARK ART CENTER: $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSURF POINT FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWomen's Studio Workshop Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAS 220: $4,470 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Andy Warhol Found…Sustainable Arts Foun…The William & Flora H…The Ford FoundationThe Chicago Community…Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts IncNY24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Sustainable Arts Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Artist Communities Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Artist Communities Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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