Missouri · Nonprofit
ARTS IN TRANSIT INC
ARTS IN TRANSIT INC (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $22,500 to it, the largest being REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ($22,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $0
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $23k
- Net assets
- $78k
What Arts in Transit Inc does
Mission
To support the creation and integration of excellent art and design within the metro st. Louis transit system in order to enhance the transit experience and to connect bi-state area communities to the arts.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Art in motion gives st. Louis organizations the opportunity to create a rolling mural on metrobuses to promote their visions, messages and missions throughout the st. Louis region. Arts in transit has an ever-expanding roster of local artists who are regularly contracted to design bus paintings. Ait works with interested organizations to select an artist to create a design for the bus and help oversee its execution at a public painting event.
Metroscapes was started in 2015 to create a more pleasing atmosphere at area bus shelters and metrolink stations, bring public art to a broad and diverse audience, and support st. Louis artists. Metroscapes brings public art to commuters at bus shelters and metrolink stations throughout st. Louis city and county every day.metroscapes is an annual, juried competition open to regional artists and designers. Ten outstanding images, either new or existing, are selected by a panel of judges and reproduced onto posters that are displayed in bus shelters and metrolink stations throughout the bi-state area for one year. The artists receive a cash award and retain the rights to their artwork. Smaller poster reproductions are available for sale.
$17,437 spent100% of program spendingMetrolines is arts in transit's annual poetry program. It has become one of the premier poetry contests in the st. Louis region. The metrolines poetry contest is announced each spring, and poets of all ages can submit up to three poems for consideration. A professional panel of poets and literary experts review the submissions and select up to fifteen poems for publication. The poets are paid a stipend for the use of their poem. The winning poems are then published in specially designed posters that integrate the text with complementary imagery. The poems are exhibited inside metro buses and trains for at least one year. In the fall, arts in transit hosts the poets at a poetry reading along with a noted guest poet reading a selection of their work.
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,437.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $95k to $78k (−18%).
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.
0% of ARTS IN TRANSIT INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $12k → $11k.
From the IRS filings of ARTS IN TRANSIT 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ARTS IN TRANSIT INC's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 IN TRANSIT INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like ARTS IN TRANSIT 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bi-State Development Agency · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARTS IN TRANSIT 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 IN TRANSIT INC?
- ARTS IN TRANSIT INC (Missouri) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $22,500 to it, the largest being REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION ($22,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS IN TRANSIT INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $22,500 in grants to ARTS IN TRANSIT INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS IN TRANSIT INC?
- REGIONAL CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS IN TRANSIT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2018–2023), and the filings of 1 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