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Mid-America Arts Alliance

Guided by the vision of "More Art for All People," Mid-America Arts Alliance partners with and supports artists, cultural organizations, and communities to expand access to the arts, culture, and creativity across the region and beyond.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
71
Grants FY2025still arriving
26
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$8.1MHealth$79kHuman Services$71kEnvironment$50kYouth Development$40kEducation$23k
02FY2025 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 71 grants below total $2,056,541 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,522,317 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,465,776 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $575k
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $1.4M
$23,958
Median grant
26
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Museum of Deaf History Arts and Culture Inc$50,000
Outside The Lens$50,000
Armed Services Arts Partnership$50,000
The Black Actor's League LLC$50,000
ECHO Collective$50,000
Great Promise for American Indians$50,000
Decolonizing the Music Room$50,000
ENTRE LLC$50,000
Ra-Ve Cultural Foundation Inc$50,000
Diaz Music Institute$50,000
Community Building Art Works$50,000
Mulberry Arts Inc$50,000
Islamic Arts Society$50,000
The Big Red Barn Retreat$50,000
St Louis Art Place Initiative Inc$50,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $267k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Killeen Creators: $25k → 14%The Big Red Barn Retreat: $50k → 16%Caregivers on the Homefront Inc: $8k → 8%Dancing Well The Soldier Project Inc: $8k → 15%Caregivers on the Homefront Inc: $11k → 8%Dancing Well The Soldier Project Inc: $20k → 15%Art Spark Texas: $20k → 10%Greenwood Cultural Center: $80k → 15%Greenwood Cultural Center: $20k → 15%Art Spark Texas: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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MO
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.8M · 74 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

74 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
145

Total granted

$3.8M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+10%

Still filing today

93%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • IA
    INTERURBAN ARTHOUSE
    3× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +15%
  • OV
    Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition
    2× · 2021–2022 · $98k · revenue +7%
  • BC
    BRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS
    2× · 2022–2025 · $90k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • CO
    CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
    one grant, 2017 · $114k
  • PR
    Project Row Houses
    one grant, 2022 · $85k · revenue -74%
  • BA
    BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +6%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Southwest Washington Center for the Arts
Philanthropy
2
Center for Contemporary Arts

The mission is to provide enriching and educational experiences for the communities of the region through the promotion and support of artists.

Arts & Culture
3
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture
4
State of the Arts Productions
Arts & Culture
5
On the Boards

On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.

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6
Occidental Center for the Arts

Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…

Arts & Culture
7
Contemporary Arts Center

To provide public access to contemporary art. The Contemporary Arts Center is a multi-disciplinary arts center that is dedicated to the presentation, production, and promotion of the arts of our time.

Arts & Culture
8
Mid-America Arts Alliance

Guided by the vision of "More Art for All People," Mid-America Arts Alliance partners with and supports artists, cultural organizations, and communities to expand access to the arts, culture, and creativity across the region and beyond.

Arts & Culture
9
Art Explorium
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10
Texas International Theatrical Arts Society

We entertain, educate, and inspire by curating and commissioning extraordinary dance and perfomance art from around the world.

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11
Atlanta Contempory Art Center Inc

Dedicated to the creation, presentation and advancement of contemporary art through its exhibitions, educational programming and studio art program.

Arts & Culture
12
District of Columbia Arts Center

The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Justice Dance Performance Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Claude and Donalda Stauth Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Local History MuseumsCommunity FoundationsImmigrant Worker SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Military Veterans SupportChristian Missionary Organi…Affordable Housing Developm…Community FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity College Foundatio…Public Library OperationsYouth Sports ProgramsDance Arts Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%2/315
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,250

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 268 of the 275 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
59
Early backer (in before they grew)
263/268
Grantees still filing
167/268
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+124 more — $4,730,012 · Arts & Culture+124 moreCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — $114,160 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSIT…City of Mesa — $105,205 · OtherCity of MesaASC FOR SE ARKANSAS — $75,000 · Other+47 more — $1,445,921 · Other+47 moreArmed Services Arts Partnership — $90,000 · EducationBLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC — $70,000 · EducationECHO COLLECTIVE — $50,000 · EducationDECOLONIZING THE MUSIC ROOM — $50,000 · EducationThird Space Foundation — $50,000 · EducationAMPLIFY ARTS — $41,000 · EducationPegasus Media Project — $20,000 · EducationUniversity of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Foundation Inc — $20,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationHouston Metropolitan Dance Center Inc — $15,000 · Education+1 more — $12,000 · EducationGREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesBIG RED BARN RETREAT — $50,000 · Human ServicesArt Spark Texas — $45,000 · Human ServicesDancing Well The Soldier Project — $28,000 · Human ServicesKILLEEN CREATORS — $25,000 · Human ServicesCAREGIVERS ON THE HOMEFRONT INC — $19,016 · Human ServicesBRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS — $90,000 · EnvironmentTHE CENTER FOR URBAN PEDAGOGY INC — $67,424 · EnvironmentLOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION DEMANDED AGENCY INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentST LOUIS ART PLACE INITIATIVE INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentOUTSIDE THE LENS — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentSAY SI — $63,900 · Youth DevelopmentNEO Philanthropy Inc — $50,000 · Public BenefitMODERN WARRIOR LIVE — $40,000 · Public BenefitDE-CRUIT INC — $30,308 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$4,730,012Other$1,740,286Education$433,000Human Services$267,016Environment$257,424Youth Development$153,900Public Benefit$120,308

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINTERURBAN ARTHOUSE — $120,115 over 3y, 17% of budgetGREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER INC — $100,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetDALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC — $100,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOklahoma Visual Arts Coalition — $97,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetBRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS — $90,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $90,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetNORMAN ARTS COUNCIL — $90,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetCARA MIA THEATRE CO — $90,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetArmed Services Arts Partnership — $90,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetEL MUSEO LATINO — $90,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetOUTSIDE THE LENS — $90,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LATINO ARTS AND CULTURE — $90,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBlack Liberated Arts Center Inc — $89,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSt Louis ArtWorks — $86,610 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetProject Row Houses — $85,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEBRASKA WRITERS COLLECTIVE — $80,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE ENSEMBLE THEATRE — $75,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMEXIC-ARTE MUSEUM — $75,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetNATIONAL BLUES MUSEUM — $72,500 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetBLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC — $70,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetRA-VE CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetDEEP CENTER INCORPORATED — $67,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetJUSTICE DANCE PERFORMANCE PROJECT INC — $67,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR URBAN PEDAGOGY INC — $67,424 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetHARVESTER ARTS — $67,150 over 5y, 14% of budgetARTSCONNECT INC — $66,150 over 4y, 19% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF JOHNSON COUNTY — $66,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSpacetaker — $65,150 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetOKLAHOMANS FOR THE ARTS INC — $65,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetSAY SI — $63,900 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetEXIT 12 DANCE COMPANY INC — $58,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetFORT WAYNE DANCE COLLECTIVE INC — $56,700 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetPATH WITH ART — $52,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetECHO COLLECTIVE — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCreative Movement Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetDELTAARTS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetAMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM — $50,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetMONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMuseum of Deaf History Arts and Culture — $50,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetSOUL REP THEATRE COMPANY — $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBIG RED BARN RETREAT — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetISLAMIC ARTS SOCIETY — $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetPRISON PERFORMING ARTS — $48,375 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetMuseum of Glass — $48,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetResounding Joy Inc — $48,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetBLIXT LOCALLY GROWN — $47,200 over 2y, 23% of budgetArt Spark Texas — $45,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $42,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Houston Arts AlliancePeter Kiewit Foundati…Houston Endowment IncRegional Cultural and…Nac Development Corpo…Greater Austin Perfor…The Francis Family Fo…Rea Charitable TrustWindgate Charitable F…The Brown Foundation …Better Business BureauWeitz Family Foundati…
Houston Arts AllianceTX44× affinity22 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Houston Arts Alliance · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · Nac Development Corporation · Greater Austin Performing Arts Center Inc · The Francis Family Foundation · Rea Charitable Trust · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · Better Business Bureau · Weitz Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Mid-America Arts Alliance funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Community Building Art Works — 18% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Justice Dance Performance Project Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
72report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 275 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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