Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ALMA LEWIS
ALMA LEWIS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,424,432 to it, the largest being FLEISCHNER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($335,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $338k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $115k
What Alma Lewis does
Mission
Alma Lewis is a nonprofit organization located in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. The organization's mission is to be an experimental contemporary art platform for critical thinking, constructive dialogue, and creative expression dedicated to black culture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Alma Lewis creates supportive residencies in its art space that encourage the rigorous artistic practice of visual and literary artists, curates world-class exhibitions to present exciting, provocative work from emerging and mid-career artists, and provides access to the black archive, a research and reading space for art historians, scholars, writers, and artists that features rare and non-circulating books, publications, and artifacts of black history, culture, and art.
$300,361 spent$20,450 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $300,361.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $38k to $253k (+573%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
94% of ALMA LEWIS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kilolo Luckett
Executive director
Board chair
Kary Arimoto-Mercer
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $20k → $272k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALMA LEWIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALMA LEWIS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
31% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALMA LEWIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 56% · 2022 30% · 2023 55% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
38% of ALMA LEWIS's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 90% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
93% of ALMA LEWIS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $281k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALMA LEWIS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like ALMA LEWIS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALMA LEWIS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALMA LEWIS?
- ALMA LEWIS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,424,432 to it, the largest being FLEISCHNER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($335,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALMA LEWIS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,424,432 in grants to ALMA LEWIS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALMA LEWIS?
- FLEISCHNER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $335,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALMA LEWIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing