Texas · Nonprofit
AUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE
AUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE (Texas) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $958,595 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($332,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $959k
- Net assets
- $68k
What Austin Creative Alliance does
Mission
The mission of Austin Creative Alliance is to advance, connect, and celebrate Austin's arts, culture, and creative communities in order to nourish and strengthen the character, quality of life, and economic prosperity of our region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Program/Services/Accomplishments: Professional development seminars, community building events, public forums. ACA produces educational programming and teaches business & entrepreneurial skllls to the art and creative sectors in two tracks: (1) covering professional management and economic gain for individual artists for the nonprofit sector, and (2) covering professional management and economic gain for individual artists for the nonprofit sector. ACA hosts community relationship-building events with specialized themes to enhance business knowledge and collaboration within the communlty, as well as public forums to be held on topics of interest to the arts community. Fiscal sponsorship program & Arts Incubator for Emerging Artists and Groups: ACA offers project sponsorship to individuals and organizations that perform artistic and charitable services to the community. The program also offers expert advice and consultation regarding nonprofit best practices, marketing and raising funds. Over 150 organizations or individuals were sponsored through the program in FY 2019-2020. Actors' Equity Association Paymaster Services: ACA, working together with the New York, Chicago, Orlando,…
$1,066,019 spent$1,068,581 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,066,019.
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 2023 to 2024, from $306k to $521k (+70%).
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 17% · 2020 18% · 2021 25% · 2022 13% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of AUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Dewy Brooks
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $13k → $181k.
6 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 CREATIVE ALLIANCE’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 CREATIVE ALLIANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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
81% 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 CREATIVE ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 54% · 2019 63% · 2020 27% · 2021 48% · 2022 54% · 2023 41% — 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
21% of AUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
70% of AUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $292k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $666k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 CREATIVE ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like AUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE?
- AUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE (Texas) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $958,595 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($332,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $958,595 in grants to AUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $332,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSTIN CREATIVE ALLIANCE 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 27 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