Texas · Nonprofit
Art Colony Association Inc
Art Colony Association Inc (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $404,458 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($395,871). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Art Colony Association Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Arts Connect Houstonshared fundersportfolio match
- Kinder Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Cullen Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 29% · 2021 6% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of Art Colony Association Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $61k → $65k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Art Colony Association Inc’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
Art Colony Association Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Art Colony Association Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 89% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
98% of Art Colony Association Inc's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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.
- Arts Connect Houstonshared fundersportfolio matchTX · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Kinder Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchTX · backs 12 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Cullen Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchTX · backs 18 organizations that share your funders · funds 71 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Susan Vaughan Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchTX · backs 13 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Cullen Trust for the Performing Artsshared fundersTX · backs 42 organizations that share your funders
- The Wortham Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oshman Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alvin & Lucy Owsley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The RR Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Melbern G & Susanne M Glasscock Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anchorage Foundation of Texasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jbd Foundationportfolio 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 Art Colony Association Inc
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Art Colony Association Inc: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Art Colony Association Inc?
- Art Colony Association Inc (Texas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $404,458 to it, the largest being Houston Arts Alliance ($395,871). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Art Colony Association Inc have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $404,458 in grants to Art Colony Association Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Art Colony Association Inc?
- Houston Arts Alliance is the largest funder on record, with $395,871 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Art Colony Association Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 3funders 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