New York · Nonprofit
ATHENS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC
ATHENS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,271 to it, the largest being ATHENS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($29,005). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $256k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $60k
- Net assets
- $197k
What Athens Cultural Arts Center Inc does
Mission
The Athens Cultural Center enriches the quality of life in and around Athens through community events-including concerts, annual block party, and the annual Athens Victorian Stroll, year-round art exhibitions, and educational programs for all ages.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Throughout 2025, Athens Cultural Center presented a variety of free community events that fostered civic engagement, celebrated local culture, and increased access to the arts. Signature programs included the free Summer Music Series, monthly First Friday events, the Annual Block Party, Community Day, the Athens Street Festival, and the Annual Athens Victorian Stroll. These events brought together residents and visitors of all ages through live music, visual arts, family activities, local history, and community partnerships, strengthening cultural participation and contributing to the vitality of downtown Athens. Collectively, these events welcomed thousands of residents and visitors throughout the year, supporting community engagement and local economic activity.
$45,088 spent$357 earned by the program34% of program spendingThe Athens Cultural Center presented ten free exhibitions during 2025 featuring the work of regional and emerging artists, community members, and K-12 students. The exhibition program included member-artist and invitational shows, thematic exhibitions, and a collaborative exhibition developed in partnership with Greene Land Trust that explored the intersection of art, local history, and the natural environment. Highlights included Esperanza, Hope: Portraits of Migration and Change in Athens, NY, which documented local immigrant stories through portraiture and oral histories. Two curated shows: Material Girl, curated by Lisa Corinne Davis, featuring abstract painter mentors including Lynda Beglis, Brenda Goodman, and Nanette Carter, and their prodigies; and Goddess: Origins of Wonder, curated by filmmaker Niva Dorell, which explored feminine identities in the 21st century and included Erika DeVries and Portia Munson along with regional artists. Together, these exhibitions expanded public access to the visual arts while supporting artists through exhibition opportunities, public engagement, and educational programming.
$64,016 spent$7,105 earned by the program48% of program spendingACC provided year-round on-site and off-site arts education programs serving 1,558 participants, including 760 youth, through classes, workshops, lectures, and community art experiences led by professional teaching artists. Educational offerings included free youth programs, after-school classes at the local library, a summer arts program presented in partnership with the Village of Athens Summer Recreation Program, and ongoing monthly community art programs offered on a sliding-scale basis. Adult workshops were offered at reduced rates to ensure affordability and expand access to the arts. Through partnerships with local schools, libraries, municipalities, and community organizations, Athens Cultural Center provided inclusive opportunities for children, families, adults, and seniors to engage in creative learning, artistic expression, and lifelong education.
$23,903 spent$3,877 earned by the program18% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $133,007.
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 2024 to 2025, from $193k to $310k (+61%).
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: 2024 16% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of ATHENS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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
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
Jacob Miller
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $9k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 CULTURAL ARTS CENTER 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
ATHENS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 ATHENS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 97% · 2022 96% · 2023 89% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of ATHENS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k 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
ATHENS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ATHENS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ATHENS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC?
- ATHENS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $60,271 to it, the largest being ATHENS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($29,005). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ATHENS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $60,271 in grants to ATHENS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ATHENS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC?
- ATHENS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $29,005 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ATHENS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 6 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