Tennessee · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS
ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,089 to it, the largest being Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $534k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $102k
- Net assets
- $-25586
What Association for Visual Artists does
Mission
To connect visual arts and the community in personal and experiential ways because art makes communities better
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Festivals and events: presentation of art in a public forum
$297,299 spent$335,287 earned by the program78% of program spendingExhibits: production of various exhibits of local, regional and national artists in various forms.
$29,392 spent$33,992 earned by the program8% of program spendingPrograms, classes and workshops: production programs, classes and workshops for members and public for free or nominal fee.
$55,359 spent$30,520 earned by the program14% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $382,050.
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 $116k to $316k (+172%).
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 5% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2021 23% · 2022 21% · 2023 16% · 2024 16% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS’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. 5 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Lindsay Hill
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $3k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $102k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Artsbuild). These are real filings, and they are not money ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS raised.
From the IRS filings of ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS’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
ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 83% · 2022 92% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 30% 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
55% of ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k 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
ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS's revenue grew 29% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS: 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 ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS?
- ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS (Tennessee) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $102,089 to it, the largest being Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation ($45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $102,089 in grants to ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS?
- Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION FOR VISUAL ARTISTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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