Arkansas · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (Arkansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,691,000 to it, the largest being The JE and LE Mabee Foundation Inc ($750,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Windgate Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Walter O Caldwell Foundationshared funderslocal
- Sheila Fortune Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2018 4% · 2019 7% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 27% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $531k → $14k.
1 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS’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
COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 89%; 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: 2021 94% · 2022 98% · 2023 64% — 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
COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside Arkansas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Windgate Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchAR · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Walter O Caldwell Foundationshared funderslocalAR · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 26 organizations near you
- Sheila Fortune Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nlt Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Star Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ruth and Joseph C Reed Foundation for The Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Segerstrom Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Barnes Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Genesis Inspiration Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Les Paul Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Services Initiative of Western New York Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Midwest Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS?
- COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (Arkansas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,691,000 to it, the largest being The JE and LE Mabee Foundation Inc ($750,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,691,000 in grants to COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS?
- The JE and LE Mabee Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 11funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing