Texas · Nonprofit
CONTRACOMMON
CONTRACOMMON (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,500 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $151k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $73k
- Net assets
- $46k
What Contracommon does
Mission
To empower underrepresented artists in the Central Texas area by providing accessible spaces and opportunities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Membership Programs. Provide affordable and accessible technology, equipment and facilities to emerging artists in the Central TX area, incl. private studios, wood shop, office, and flexible workspace. In FY24-25, we provided facilities access to 5 artists and private studio access to 13 artists.
$30,157 spent33% of program spendingExhibitions. Provide a non-traditional route for emerging artists to exhibit their work. We provide staffed open hours, install and deinstall services, advertising and promotion, documentation and point of sales services. 107 artists were showcased in exhibitions during FY24-25.
$20,917 spent23% of program spendingCommunity Events and Workshops. Provide opportunities for the public to experience art, learn art techniques or just be in community with one another while expressing creativity. Events include exhibition receptions, educational workshops, pop-up markets, festivals, performances, studio tours and more. We hosted 9 educational workshops serving 61 participants, 3 festivals hosting 93 performers and artists, 4 pop-up markets featuring 32 artist vendors, 13 community-oriented creative sessions serving 118 participants, and 8 exhibition receptions with 582 total attendees.
$40,671 spent44% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $91,745.
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 2021 to 2022, from $25k to $84k (+233%).
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.
92% of CONTRACOMMON’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 CONTRACOMMON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 funders by total. 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
CONTRACOMMON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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
97% 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 CONTRACOMMON.
“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 CONTRACOMMON's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CONTRACOMMON has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CONTRACOMMON
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.
Public support
35%
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 CONTRACOMMON: 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 CONTRACOMMON?
- CONTRACOMMON (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,500 to it, the largest being GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONTRACOMMON have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $72,500 in grants to CONTRACOMMON, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONTRACOMMON?
- GREATER AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONTRACOMMON 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 4 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