Virginia · Nonprofit
ARTS ALIVE INC
ARTS ALIVE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,071 to it, the largest being ELIS OLSSON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($120,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $144k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $120k
- Net assets
- $274k
What Arts Alive Inc does
Mission
To promote & stimulate an awareness & love of the arts by instituting, funding, supporting, and administering arts programs. We serve the virginia counties of king and queen, king william, and new kent, and the town of west point.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Season performances, art exhibits, and art openings during the 2022-2023 season. See the attachment for more details.
$80,259 spent$36,423 earned by the program81% of program spendingChildrens' arts camp - camp alive summer camp.
$4,070 spent$37,693 earned by the program4% of program spendingMissoula drama camp.
$7,999 spent$4,990 earned by the program8% of program spendingD. Visual arts fees
$6,983 spent$2,131 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $99,311.
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 2020 to 2021, from $195k to $264k (+36%).
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: 2017 11% · 2018 13% · 2019 11% · 2020 13% · 2021 13% · 2022 16% · 2023 6% · 2024 8% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of ARTS ALIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $20k → $20k.
1 of 2 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 ARTS ALIVE 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
ARTS ALIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
100% of ARTS ALIVE INC's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ARTS ALIVE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ARTS ALIVE INC
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% 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 ARTS ALIVE 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARTS ALIVE INC?
- ARTS ALIVE INC (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $120,071 to it, the largest being ELIS OLSSON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ($120,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS ALIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $120,071 in grants to ARTS ALIVE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS ALIVE INC?
- ELIS OLSSON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS ALIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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