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ATHENS ARTS LEAGUE

ATHENS ARTS LEAGUE (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,448 to it, the largest being DEKKO FOUNDATION INC ($42,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$54k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$52k
Net assets
$102k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Athens Arts League does

Mission

To provide art education and cultural events to our community.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Art After Hours by providing live music and art activities to the community. Held each month from May through September

    $1,600 spentof which $1,200 as grants
    10% of program spending
  2. Readings by local authors and corresponding art activity.

    $482 spentof which $200 as grants
    3% of program spending
  3. Dia De Les Muertos - Event to include the art and music of the Hispanic community in order to include an event for our Hispanic neighbors.

    $736 spentof which $730 as grants
    4% of program spending
  4. Other activities including a drum circle and art camp for local Boys and Girls Club, free art classes to foster children and special needs adults and expanded music program to provide ukelele camps and lessons in the technology of the recording and production of music.

    $13,735 spentof which $3,750 as grants
    83% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,553.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($98k) Expenses 100 ($37k) Net assets 100 ($79k)2023 Revenue 74 ($73k) Expenses 160 ($59k) Net assets 117 ($92k)2024 Revenue 55 ($54k) Expenses 117 ($43k) Net assets 130 ($102k)
202220232024
Revenue (55)Expenses (117)Net assets (130)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $95k to $102k (+8%).

$91k
$95k
$102k
202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

70% of ATHENS ARTS LEAGUE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$60k
’22
$13k
’23
$10k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $44k → $21.

1 of 4 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 ATHENS ARTS LEAGUE’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

ATHENS ARTS LEAGUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% 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

82%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 97% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

ATHENS ARTS LEAGUE draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Alabama, across 3 states in all.

IN
NC
AL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’21
’22
Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ATHENS ARTS LEAGUE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−26% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like ATHENS ARTS LEAGUE

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

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

AL

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Questions and answers

Who funds ATHENS ARTS LEAGUE?
ATHENS ARTS LEAGUE (Alabama) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,448 to it, the largest being DEKKO FOUNDATION INC ($42,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ATHENS ARTS LEAGUE have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $52,448 in grants to ATHENS ARTS LEAGUE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ATHENS ARTS LEAGUE?
DEKKO FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $42,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ATHENS ARTS LEAGUE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 4 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