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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 71 grants below total $2,056,541, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,522,317 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,465,776 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 · 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
Islamic Arts Society$50,000
Mulberry Arts Inc$50,000
Outside The Lens$50,000
No Divide KC$50,000
Diaz Music Institute$50,000
East Lubbock Art House$50,000
Anastasis Theatre Company$50,000
Local Environmental Action Demanded Inc$50,000
ECHO Collective$50,000
Exit 12 Dance Company$50,000
The Big Red Barn Retreat$50,000
Community Building Art Works$50,000
Ra-Ve Cultural Foundation Inc$50,000
The Black Actor's League LLC$50,000
Armed Services Arts Partnership$50,000
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:

Its 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 its 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
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

AK
WA
ID
MT
IL
WI
NY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
AR
TN
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

+20%
+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
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

  • 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 +23%

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%
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
Southwest Washington Center for the Arts
Philanthropy
2
State of the Arts Productions
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
Art Explorium
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5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Connecting Through the Arts and Edu
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9
Mizner Park Cultural Arts Association Inc
Philanthropy
10
Seward Arts Council
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11
The Tank Ltd

The Tank is a small, Manhattan-based non-profit arts presenter and producer serving emerging artists. Our goal is to remove economic barriers from the creation of new work for artists launching their careers or experimenting within their…

Arts & Culture
12
Theatre Artibus

Artibus is dedicated to strengthening community through the experience of live performance. We are a hub in Denver for intimate, original performances that explore important social themes and for building community through shared space,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Justice Dance Performance Project Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

268 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
56
Early backer (in before they grew)
263/268
Grantees still filing
165/268
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · EducationDECOLONIZING THE MUSIC ROOM: $50,000 · EducationECHO COLLECTIVE: $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 · EnvironmentST LOUIS ART PLACE INITIATIVE INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentLOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION DEMANDED AGENCY 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 the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERURBAN ARTHOUSE: $120,115 over 3y, 17% of budgetDALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE INC: $100,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGREENWOOD CULTURAL CENTER INC: $100,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetOklahoma Visual Arts Coalition: $97,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetBRUSHWOOD CENTER AT RYERSON WOODS: $90,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetArmed Services Arts Partnership: $90,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LATINO ARTS AND CULTURE: $90,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCARA MIA THEATRE CO: $90,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetOUTSIDE THE LENS: $90,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetEL MUSEO LATINO: $90,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetTHE UNION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $90,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetNORMAN ARTS COUNCIL: $90,000 over 2y, 8.0% 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 budgetISLAMIC ARTS SOCIETY: $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetDELTAARTS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetMuseum of Deaf History Arts and Culture: $50,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetMONTHAVEN ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM: $50,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCreative Movement Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetSOUL REP THEATRE COMPANY: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBIG RED BARN RETREAT: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% 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
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 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

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 Mid-America Arts Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mid-America Arts Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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 275 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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