Georgia · Nonprofit
AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL INC
AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL INC (Georgia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,619 to it, the largest being AUGUSTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA DESTINATION AUGUSTA ($131,475). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $175k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $253k
- Net assets
- $218k
What Augusta Westobou Festival Inc does
Mission
Westobou fosters a vibrant, culturally-rich community by supporting artists and their ideas to present engaging, creative and thought-provoking artistic experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Westobou gallerydesigned as a contemporary venue for a wide variety of exhibitions throughout the year, westobou gallery offers curated exhibitions by national, regional and local artists with a focus on emerging and mid-career contemporary and experimental artists. Westobou gallery opened in may 2015. Since then, the gallery has presented various exhibitions that included work by a multitude of artists. Annually, westobou presents 5-6 exhibitions including curated shows, a local artist feature, student show, and a juried small works show. Exhibitions are typically open for 6-8 weeks and include special events like artist talks, gallery tours, and wine and cheese receptions.project commissionswestobou supports creative, cultural, contemporary and experimental projects including, but not limited to murals, installations, small concerts, short films, workshops, lectures, pop-up exhibitions, spoken word and food events.individuals, groups, and organizations are invited to submit proposals for one or more projects. Those chosen are commissioned up to $5,000 to implement their project.westobou artist in residencewestobou aims to inspire creativity in artistic expression and community…
$215,562 spent$37,852 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $215,562.
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 2019 to 2020, from $64k to $218k (+241%).
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 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Matthew Porter
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $37k → $28k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL 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
AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 66% · 2019 65% · 2020 86% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 71% — 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
97% of AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k 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
AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL INC is better cushioned than half 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 AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL INC?
- AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL INC (Georgia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $252,619 to it, the largest being AUGUSTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA DESTINATION AUGUSTA ($131,475). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $252,619 in grants to AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL INC?
- AUGUSTA CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU INC DBA DESTINATION AUGUSTA is the largest funder on record, with $131,475 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUGUSTA WESTOBOU FESTIVAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 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