California · Nonprofit
Art League of Lincoln
Art League of Lincoln (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,510 to it, the largest being Lincoln Community Foundation ($21,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $57k
- Net assets
- $75k
What Art League of Lincoln does
Mission
To promote, foster and support the arts in the greater Lincoln area through exhibits, shows, tours, education and other activities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Art League of Lincoln provided an extensive array of art enrichment activities to the Lincoln community in 2024: Presented 20+ different art shows in our 6th Street, Rotunda and Spotlight Galleries. Offered a full schedule of art classes for adults and children in a variety of art mediums and methods.Presented the Clay Fest Event to the Lincoln Community with artisans conducting live demonstrations and providing an opportunity for attendees of all ages to create ceramic art of their own.Collaborated with the City of Lincoln Parks and Recreation Department to conduct weeklong art camps for children during school breaks. Handmade gifts created by our artist members were offered for sale in our 6th Street gift shop. Volunteer committees made significant organizational improvements including beautification and functional enhancements to our 6th Street Gallery property and implemented a new point of sale system in our gift shop.
$27,172 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $27,172.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $134k to $74k (−45%).
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.
37% of Art League of Lincoln’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $38 → $46.
4 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 League of Lincoln’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 League of Lincoln leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 League of Lincoln.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 70% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
69% of Art League of Lincoln's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $18k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $39k 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
Art League of Lincoln has grown faster than three-quarters of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Art League of Lincoln
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
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 Art League of Lincoln: 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 Art League of Lincoln?
- Art League of Lincoln (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,510 to it, the largest being Lincoln Community Foundation ($21,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Art League of Lincoln have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $56,510 in grants to Art League of Lincoln, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Art League of Lincoln?
- Lincoln Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $21,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Art League of Lincoln find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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