Texas · Nonprofit
AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS
AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS (Texas) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $361,258 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($66,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $385k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $361k
- Net assets
- $577k
What Austin Area Art From the Streets does
Mission
To provide a safe and encouraging environment where creativity of homeless individuals is nurtured through artistic expression that produces a positive spirit and source of pride and income for these individuals through the sale of their artwork.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provide art studio 3 times per week for homeless and at-risk individuals. Art studio is attended by 80+ different individuals during the year and is conducted at is conducted in our space at canopy austin. All supplies are provided to individuals and the studio is staffed by a team of volunteers.
$155,826 spent30% of program spendingPresent annual show & sale of artwork created during the year in art studio. All artist work created during the year, in addition to work remaining from prior years, is displayed and pieces are available for sale over a two-day period
$155,827 spent30% of program spendingPresent artist work for sale via afts website and via short-term pop-up events to allow potential artist earnings beyond the annual show and sale to provide a portal for online donations.
$155,827 spent$97,506 earned by the program30% of program spendingCollectors lease program
$51,942 spent$3,000 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $519,422.
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 2021 to 2022, from $268k to $451k (+68%).
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: 2019 29% · 2020 26% · 2021 18% · 2022 3% · 2023 3% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (54% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Kelley Warden
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $1k → $37k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS’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
AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
65% 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 AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 28% · 2021 33% · 2022 65% · 2023 40% — 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.
How long its funders stay
30% of AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
93% of AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $126k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,276 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS: 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 AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS?
- AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS (Texas) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $361,258 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($66,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $361,258 in grants to AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS?
- GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $66,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSTIN AREA ART FROM THE STREETS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 21 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