Georgia · Nonprofit
BACKSTREET COMMUNITY ARTS INC
BACKSTREET COMMUNITY ARTS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,547 to it, the largest being Abraham J and Phyllis Katz Foundation ($250,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $331k
- Net assets
- $24k
What Backstreet Community Arts Inc does
Mission
Backstreet community arts is a free open arts studio for adults 18 and over. We provide a safe, welcoming, creative environment, at no cost, to any adult who may benefit from the proven healing powers of art and community. Last year's highlights included project ukulele, a buoyant musical program for adults with developmental disabilities, the long- awaited addition of stained glass to our open studio program, the launch of our modernized, user-friendly website, and the debut of backstreet&..., a zine celebrating original work by backstreet's own participants and volunteers. In 2025 we logged 411 participants and 2,887 visits, a 20% increase from 2024's totals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Providing a safe, welcoming, creative environment to anyone who may benefit from the healing powers of art and community. In 2025, we logged 411 participants and 2,887 visits, a 20% increase from 2024's totals.
$99,796 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $99,796.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $92k to $48k (−48%).
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.
100% of BACKSTREET COMMUNITY ARTS 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. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $2k → $33k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 BACKSTREET COMMUNITY ARTS 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
BACKSTREET COMMUNITY ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 74% · 2020 93% · 2021 86% · 2022 75% · 2023 60% — 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
97% of BACKSTREET COMMUNITY ARTS 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. $32k 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
BACKSTREET COMMUNITY ARTS INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BACKSTREET COMMUNITY ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 BACKSTREET COMMUNITY ARTS 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.
Public support
100%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BACKSTREET COMMUNITY ARTS INC: 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 BACKSTREET COMMUNITY ARTS INC?
- BACKSTREET COMMUNITY ARTS INC (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,547 to it, the largest being Abraham J and Phyllis Katz Foundation ($250,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BACKSTREET COMMUNITY ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $330,547 in grants to BACKSTREET COMMUNITY ARTS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BACKSTREET COMMUNITY ARTS INC?
- Abraham J and Phyllis Katz Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BACKSTREET COMMUNITY ARTS 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing