Tennessee · Nonprofit
CARPE ARTISTA INC
CARPE ARTISTA INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,206 to it, the largest being GREATER NASHVILLE FUNDING ($22,926). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $633k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $-666123
What Carpe Artista Inc does
Mission
Transforming cultures globally by developing local arts communities through the nurturing of young creatives to reach their full potential in four core values: character, calling, craft, and community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Carpe artista engages in community development efforts through organizing events that bring awareness to the economic and innovation benefits of a thriving artistic community. These events engage local businesses and industry to partner for cultural development, while striving to promote the creative arts within the community. Carpe artista coordinates festivals, concerts, shows, farmers markets, and other public cultural events approximately 20,000 people benefited in 2022
$301,014 spent$55,117 earned by the program48% of program spendingCarpe academy provides artistic training and leadership development through award-winning camps, ongoing classes, and private instruction using interactive teaching methods in visual arts, music, and theater. With our focus on these core values character, craft, calling and community carpe artista seeks to assist creatives in reaching their full potential. Newly in development, the academy program has been expanded by adding a branch of career training called c3t carpe creative career training. Carpe artista will partner with the rutherford county school board, to pilot this program. C3t will provide students with opportunities to earn cte certifications that will prepare them for future career development in the arts. Plans include partnering with the tennessee state education department to solidify the programs inclusion in tennessee state schools.approximately 400 students benefited in 2022.
$294,966 spent$343,889 earned by the program47% of program spendingCarpe artista provides a job training program through the daily operation of carpe cafe, a coffee shop located in smyrnas historic depot district. This program offers high school and college age students the opportunity for hands-on training to further their educational and career objectives. The cafe incorporates arts education with live music performances, studio space for visual art displays, and periodic arts instruction. Approximately 16,000 people benefited in 2022.
$30,464 spent$32,538 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $626,444.
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 $324k to $478k (+47%).
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: 2020 7% · 2021 14% · 2022 15% · 2023 28% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of CARPE ARTISTA INC’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. 5 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.
Chief executive
Ron Alley
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $115 → $162.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 CARPE ARTISTA 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
CARPE ARTISTA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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 CARPE ARTISTA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 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 CARPE ARTISTA INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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
CARPE ARTISTA INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CARPE ARTISTA 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 CARPE ARTISTA 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 CARPE ARTISTA INC?
- CARPE ARTISTA INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,206 to it, the largest being GREATER NASHVILLE FUNDING ($22,926). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CARPE ARTISTA INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $36,206 in grants to CARPE ARTISTA INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CARPE ARTISTA INC?
- GREATER NASHVILLE FUNDING is the largest funder on record, with $22,926 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CARPE ARTISTA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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