Texas · Nonprofit
BAT CITY COMIC PROFESSIONALS
BAT CITY COMIC PROFESSIONALS (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,266 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($5,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $177k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $31k
What Bat City Comic Professionals does
Mission
Bat City Comic Professionals is a non-profit organization that works to produce resources and classes for students, parents, teachers, and life-long learners through comics education, art, and writing showcases, book donations, and comic restoration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
We created a full school year after-school program with Manatee School for the Arts that provided students with a Bachelor's Degree level of knowledge in sequential storytelling and art. We met with the students every other week for the entire school year helping them to expand their knowledge of art and writing with the intent of creating a book. Students then received professional guidance on how to put the book together so that they could display and/or sell their work at a comic con thrown in their honor at the school during the final weeks of the upcoming spring semester (May 2026).
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Books for Schools - Bat City Comic Professionals uses proceeds from our gross sales of product to provide books to teachers and librarians at the elementary through college level. These books include single-issue comic books, trade paperback collections, original graphic novels, early readers, and novels. All books that we donate are brand new and come with supplemental resources for educators, including themed curriculum, reader follow-up questions, conversation starters, writing prompts, etc. Books are delivered to or picked up by educators so that we can ensure that books contain relevant subject matters and themes, age-appropriate reading levels, and preferred titles for teachers. Resources for this program are also made available on our website with monthly themes and book suggestions to make it accessible to others who are too far to travel to our location and vice versa.
$3,550 spent7% of program spendingWriting and Art Educational Opportunities - Bat City Comic Professionals offers comic creation workshops to area schools, libraries, and to local residents (in our on-site classroom). In these workshops, students learn the writing process through the construction of comic books and their scripts. Students are able to grasp complex writing elements and mechanisms in an easier to digest format in order to better tell the story they desire. Students also learn the skills needed to draw their stories in sequential form using the basics of artistic expression and figure drawing, as well as learning comic-specific techniques like paneling, guttering, and lettering. In 2022, we expanded the program to the Girl Scouts of Central Texas and the Suncoast of Florida, as well as the Cub and Boy Scouts. In these workshops, Scouts are able to earn a badge by creating a comic story through our workbooks. We also hosted local artists and comic publishing companies to do portfolio review and development classes for advanced artists in our community who wanted to learn where they could improve their technique and build on already developed skills. In this workshops, participants were able to bring…
$30,605 spent60% of program spendingBooks for Kids/Story Spelunkers program- In addition to providing books to area schools and libraries, Bat City Comic Professionals also works to incentivize and encourage reading in young people by providing them with a free single-issue comic book every time they come into Bat City. Bat City also creates events to spark a love for reading in young people such as Superhero Storytime (featuring both adult and young readers), Story Spelunkers Book Club (rewarding accomplishments and completion in reading activities), and free comic days where community members can come receive free books, play games, and hear booktalks about titles they may like in a variety of genres. We also worked with area schools and in-store for booktalks and creating content that helped young people discover new books that would be of interest to them and help them find a space in books that they were comfortable. In 2025, we expanded this to include family fun days that were themed around certain books and literary activities. This helped us to bring hundreds of families through the doors to learn together in new and fun ways (like partnering with the Bradenton Police Department to certify students as…
$13,365 spent26% of program spendingSLAM Club at Manatee School for the Arts was our new program this year. We created a college-level course in Sequential Art and Writing for high school students that allowed them to expand their writing and art skills. 40 students participated in the course throughout the school year, meeting every other week with the goal that in the spring there would be a comic con for them to show off their work. Each student had to create art pieces, writing pieces, and/or a full book.
$3,800 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $51,320.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $12k to $31k (+152%).
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.
20% of BAT CITY COMIC PROFESSIONALS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Stanley Baldwin
Executive Director/Treasurer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BAT CITY COMIC PROFESSIONALS’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
BAT CITY COMIC PROFESSIONALS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
100% 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 BAT CITY COMIC PROFESSIONALS.
“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 BAT CITY COMIC PROFESSIONALS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
BAT CITY COMIC PROFESSIONALS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BAT CITY COMIC PROFESSIONALS
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
33% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BAT CITY COMIC PROFESSIONALS: 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 BAT CITY COMIC PROFESSIONALS?
- BAT CITY COMIC PROFESSIONALS (Texas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,266 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC ($5,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BAT CITY COMIC PROFESSIONALS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,266 in grants to BAT CITY COMIC PROFESSIONALS.
- Who is the largest funder of BAT CITY COMIC PROFESSIONALS?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA CO INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAT CITY COMIC PROFESSIONALS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 2 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