Vermont · Nonprofit
ARTS BUS INC
ARTS BUS INC (Vermont) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,854 to it, the largest being MITTLER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($84,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $203k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $364k
- Net assets
- $112k
What Arts Bus Inc does
Mission
Empowering children to find joy & authentic self-expression through the arts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The arts bus made direct connections to over 1,500 children and 200,000 people during the year through art educators, materials, supplies, classes and kits. The big bus and its minibus travel year-round to afterschool programs, daycares, schools, summer camps, public libraries, art facilities, farms and public events to empower children to find joy and authentic self-expression through the arts. The arts bus services an area of 4,500 elementary-aged children and regularly engages one-third of them each year with several mediums and art educators. It is a highly efficient nonprofit with 65% of costs and labor committed to program expenses, operating as a 2-person, 2-vehicle team.
$167,965 spent$102,717 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $167,965.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $59k to $96k (+63%).
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: 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of ARTS BUS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $4k → $43k.
2 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 BUS 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 BUS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
44% 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 ARTS BUS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 79% · 2019 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 51% · 2022 27% · 2023 44% — 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
50% of ARTS BUS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
56% of ARTS BUS INC's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ARTS BUS INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ARTS BUS 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
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 BUS 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 BUS INC?
- ARTS BUS INC (Vermont) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $363,854 to it, the largest being MITTLER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($84,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS BUS INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $363,854 in grants to ARTS BUS INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS BUS INC?
- MITTLER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $84,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS BUS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 14 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