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BATAVIA ARTISTS ASSOCIATION NFP INC WATER STREET STUDIOS
BATAVIA ARTISTS ASSOCIATION NFP INC WATER STREET STUDIOS (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $447,109 to it, the largest being DUNHAM FUND ($191,782). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $449k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $447k
- Net assets
- $156k
What Batavia Artists Association Nfp Inc Water Street Studios does
Mission
It is the objective of baai to make the arts accessible to the fox valley region and beyond. It is their vision to be a cultural hub in the midwest.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization offers high quality programs that include art education classes, workshops, and community outreach. The education program provides classes in a wide variety of mediums, including drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, metalworking, jewelry making, encaustic, and more. Just under 1,000 students are served every year. Over 700 free art sessions are made available to children, teens, and families through the outreach programs. The outreach programs partner with local schools and organizations to make the arts accessible to those who would not otherwise have the arts.
$166,502 spent$150,626 earned by the program44% of program spendingThe organization has over 4,000 square feet dedicated to gallery space for the curated works of local, national, and international artists. The galleries exhibit 24 shows annually. They host events including workshops, lectures, performances, and private parties in the galleries for the art is made more accessible to the community.
$156,174 spent$26,338 earned by the program42% of program spendingThe organization offers 25 subsidized artist studios for emerging and professional artists. The organization offers all resident artists the opportunity exhibit, teach, and sell artwork on the premises. The organization also offers a maker-space program that provides access to specialized print, ceramics, and metal equipments for self-directed artists.
$53,097 spent$119,824 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $375,773.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $248k to $399k (+61%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of BATAVIA ARTISTS ASSOCIATION NFP INC WATER STREET STUDIOS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $70k → $20k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 BATAVIA ARTISTS ASSOCIATION NFP INC WATER STREET STUDIOS’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
BATAVIA ARTISTS ASSOCIATION NFP INC WATER STREET STUDIOS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 69% · 2020 70% · 2021 86% · 2022 100% · 2023 50% — 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 BATAVIA ARTISTS ASSOCIATION NFP INC WATER STREET STUDIOS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BATAVIA ARTISTS ASSOCIATION NFP INC WATER STREET STUDIOS receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $447k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BATAVIA ARTISTS ASSOCIATION NFP INC WATER STREET STUDIOS 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 BATAVIA ARTISTS ASSOCIATION NFP INC WATER STREET STUDIOS
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BATAVIA ARTISTS ASSOCIATION NFP INC WATER STREET STUDIOS?
- BATAVIA ARTISTS ASSOCIATION NFP INC WATER STREET STUDIOS (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $447,109 to it, the largest being DUNHAM FUND ($191,782). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BATAVIA ARTISTS ASSOCIATION NFP INC WATER STREET STUDIOS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $447,109 in grants to BATAVIA ARTISTS ASSOCIATION NFP INC WATER STREET STUDIOS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BATAVIA ARTISTS ASSOCIATION NFP INC WATER STREET STUDIOS?
- DUNHAM FUND is the largest funder on record, with $191,782 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BATAVIA ARTISTS ASSOCIATION NFP INC WATER STREET STUDIOS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2018–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing