Texas · Nonprofit
CORSICANA ARTIST AND WRITER RESIDENCY
CORSICANA ARTIST AND WRITER RESIDENCY (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,050 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $271k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $136k
- Net assets
- $429k
What Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency does
Mission
The organization advances the production and presentation of new work and ideas by a national and international community of artists and writers by providing an arena of generous support and historic space enriched by the local legacies and community of corsicana, texas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency (cawr) provides public programming and educational outreach through open studios, presentations, literature and video documentation. This serves a broad community including artists, local and regional community cultural interest, and direct patrons. The organization provides general education and community outreach through the cawr storefront, including presentations and readings by residents, artwork display, a bookshop of writings by resident artist and materials related to the work of the residents.
$40,241 spent31% of program spendingIn 2025, the organization provided space and material support for 14 artists in residence.
$33,775 spent26% of program spendingThe organization has granted residencies to 170 artists and writers from across the united states and 17 countries, who come to produce career- shifting work influenced by grand, historic studios and small-town texas. Our residents are afforded an immersive environment to cultivate new sculpture, painting, film, installation, textile, performance, poetry, fiction and non, translation, and music composition, to list several practices - work that generally exhibit, publishes, screens and performs far beyond here, in new york, los angeles, puerto rico, caracas, paris, santiago, berlin, seoul, reykjavik, and dallas. Work that is seen, read, and experienced by people who then learn that corsicana, this residency, that texas helped make possible the next museum exhibition, the next bestselling nonfiction, the next film screened at festivals, the next play performed off-broadway. Of equal importance is our investment in the cultural vibrancy of rural and small-town america, and to express that these places don't just matter, but are consequential to global conversations in contemporary creative work.
$54,587 spentof which $1,280 as grants42% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $128,603.
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 2023 to 2024, from $195k to $342k (+75%).
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: 2022 6% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of CORSICANA ARTIST AND WRITER RESIDENCY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than 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.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 CORSICANA ARTIST AND WRITER RESIDENCY’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
CORSICANA ARTIST AND WRITER RESIDENCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
70% 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 CORSICANA ARTIST AND WRITER RESIDENCY.
“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
70% of CORSICANA ARTIST AND WRITER RESIDENCY'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. Of the $41k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $96k 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
CORSICANA ARTIST AND WRITER RESIDENCY runs a healthier operating margin 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 CORSICANA ARTIST AND WRITER RESIDENCY
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CORSICANA ARTIST AND WRITER RESIDENCY: 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 CORSICANA ARTIST AND WRITER RESIDENCY?
- CORSICANA ARTIST AND WRITER RESIDENCY (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $136,050 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($75,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CORSICANA ARTIST AND WRITER RESIDENCY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $136,050 in grants to CORSICANA ARTIST AND WRITER RESIDENCY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CORSICANA ARTIST AND WRITER RESIDENCY?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CORSICANA ARTIST AND WRITER RESIDENCY 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 5 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