Texas · Nonprofit
CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS
CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $224,823 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($105,204). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $225k
- Net assets
- $83k
What Creative Arts Center of Dallas does
Mission
To provide a nurturing environment for people to discover, develop and express their artistic visions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Creative Arts Center of Dallas, Inc. (the "Center") is recognized as a 501(c) (3) nonprofit Center based in Dallas, Texas. For 60 years, the Creative Arts Center of Dallas (CAC) has provided first class arts instruction to all levels of students, from teenagers to senior citizens. CAC's mission is to nurture a community where citizen artists discover, develop, and express their artistic visions. Since it received its charter in the state of Texas in 1966 as an educational arts center, CAC has instructed students in a relaxed, creative environment. CAC serves 2,500 classroom attendees a year through the offering of more than 500 classes and workshops per year covering 13 different art disciplines. The Center derives 87% ($994,943) of its revenue from program fees for conducting classes and workshops.
$650,760 spent$1,011,990 earned by the program86% of program spendingCAC is actively engaged in free outreach for the community through Art as a Second Language and 70 annual scholarships. It organizes local art exhibitions; artist talks and events for students and the Dallas community to instill awareness and demonstrate the importance of culture and the arts in our lives. The school has deep roots in the community, and its goal is to remain one of the foremost visual arts education facilities and community arts organizations in North Texas. The Center's primary sources of revenue are class fees, grants and free-will donations from supporters and the general public.
$106,681 spent14% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $757,441.
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 $340k to $610k (+79%).
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: 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Stephanie Motz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $12k → $60k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS’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
CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 74% · 2020 41% · 2021 48% · 2022 31% · 2023 35% — 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.
How long its funders stay
80% of CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $105k 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
CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS?
- CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS (Texas) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $224,823 to it, the largest being COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ($105,204). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $224,823 in grants to CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS?
- COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC is the largest funder on record, with $105,204 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CREATIVE ARTS CENTER OF DALLAS 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 9 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