New Jersey · Nonprofit
Arts for Kids Inc
Arts for Kids Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $178,066 to it, the largest being NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL ($118,910). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $160k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $178k
- Net assets
- $71k
What Arts for Kids Inc does
Mission
Arts education, training, appreciation and recreation for students, educators and communities.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Arts-in-education residencies, performances and professional development in music, drama, dance and visual art and technology that are presented to children, families and educators in schools, community centers and public spaces.
$189,285 spent$75,750 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $189,285.
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 2025 to 2026, from $155k to $112k (−28%).
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: 2021 31% · 2022 32% · 2023 9% · 2024 14% · 2025 27% · 2026 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of Arts for Kids 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. 4 of the last 10 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.
Chief executive
Vincent Ector
Executive Director
Board chair
Ronald Cope
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $7k → $41.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 for Kids 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 for Kids Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
98% 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 for Kids Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 72% · 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 for Kids Inc's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k 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 for Kids Inc's revenue grew 30% between 2017 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 335 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Government funding Arts for Kids Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $411k on record — $60k federal, $351k state.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
- GRANT IN AID$300k
- FEDERAL$39k
- TRUST FUND$12k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Arts for Kids 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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Arts for Kids 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 for Kids Inc?
- Arts for Kids Inc (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $178,066 to it, the largest being NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL ($118,910). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Arts for Kids Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $178,066 in grants to Arts for Kids Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Arts for Kids Inc?
- NEWARK ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $118,910 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Arts for Kids Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), 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