Arizona · Nonprofit
DARKSKY AERIAL
DARKSKY AERIAL (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,403 to it, the largest being GEOFAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $27k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $5k
What Darksky Aerial does
Mission
Create breathtaking and inspiring aerial theater for audiences
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
In 2023 DarkSky Aerial created ARCO. ARCO is an original dance film, filmed on-site at Arcosanti in Mayer, Arizona. ARCO is created and performed by Dark Sky Aerial and filmed and produced by Sandcast Media. The film explores the themes of inertia, discord, enlightenment, and euphoria in a scene-by-scene experience told through visual storytelling and dance.
$28,392 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,392.
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 $18k to $7k (−62%).
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.
100% of DARKSKY AERIAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $16k → $28.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 DARKSKY AERIAL’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
DARKSKY AERIAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
62% 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 DARKSKY AERIAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 58% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 DARKSKY AERIAL's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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
DARKSKY AERIAL's revenue fell 41% between 2021 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
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In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DARKSKY AERIAL: 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 DARKSKY AERIAL?
- DARKSKY AERIAL (Arizona) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,403 to it, the largest being GEOFAMILY FOUNDATION ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DARKSKY AERIAL have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $26,403 in grants to DARKSKY AERIAL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DARKSKY AERIAL?
- GEOFAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DARKSKY AERIAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), 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