Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION
AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being Seidman Family Foundation ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION's revenue fell 38% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trustshared funders
- The Frk Foundation D/B/A Frederick R Koch Foundationportfolio match
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
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.
0% of AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $11k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Americans for the Arts Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Louis and Gloria Flanzer Philanthropic Trustshared fundersFL · backs 25 organizations that share your funders
- The Frk Foundation D/B/A Frederick R Koch Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fractured Atlas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Funding Arts Broward Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leon Smith Polk Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Al Held Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Broad Art Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Poss Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Music Matters Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Play on Shakespeareportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION: 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 AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION?
- AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being Seidman Family Foundation ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION?
- Seidman Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICANS FOR THE ARTS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing