Texas · Nonprofit
AUSTIN BOOK ARTS CENTER
AUSTIN BOOK ARTS CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,149 to it, the largest being BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU ($30,482). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $26k
What Austin Book Arts Center does
Mission
To engage people of all ages in creative, interpretive, and educational experiences related to the arts of the book.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
Abac regularly offers workshops in letterpress printing, bookbinding, papermaking, typography, book history and design, and various arts of the book. In addition, abac provides access to equipment for qualified users to practice their skills during regularly scheduled open studio times.
$68,084 spent$35,493 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $68,084.
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 2020 to 2021, from $24k to $40k (+66%).
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 12% · 2020 36% · 2021 33% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of AUSTIN BOOK ARTS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Amanda Stevenson
Executive director
Board chair
Mary Baughman
Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100 → $27.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 BOOK ARTS CENTER’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 BOOK ARTS CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% 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
99% 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 BOOK ARTS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of AUSTIN BOOK ARTS CENTER's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k 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
AUSTIN BOOK ARTS CENTER has grown faster than half of the 21,195 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,195 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like AUSTIN BOOK ARTS CENTER
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
91%
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 BOOK ARTS CENTER: 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 BOOK ARTS CENTER?
- AUSTIN BOOK ARTS CENTER (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,149 to it, the largest being BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU ($30,482). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AUSTIN BOOK ARTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $40,149 in grants to AUSTIN BOOK ARTS CENTER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSTIN BOOK ARTS CENTER?
- BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU is the largest funder on record, with $30,482 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSTIN BOOK ARTS CENTER 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), 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