Florida · Nonprofit
DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR
DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR (Florida) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,801,387 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($950,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $809k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $425k
What Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator does
Mission
Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (DVCAI) mission is to promote, nurture and cultivate the vision and diverse talent of emerging artist from the Caribbean and Latin American diaspora through our exhibition, artist-in-residence, international exchange and outreach programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
New programs: bipoc curatorial cohort - a six day professional internal introspective offering emerging curators the opportunity to immerse in a rigourous schedule of chat sessions, experiential curating examples and international experiences and 1 on 1 conversations that support the process of developing an idea for a project into a full proposal 3 exhibitions were presented: across ebb and flow, whats in your container (1 and 2), riddims of graffiti, a solo exhibition by izia lindsay back-chat an online series of socially relevant artist talks that recounts the experences
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
DVCAI is a virtual nomadic museum space providing opportunities for emerging artist to showcase their works. We inspire artist to experiment and design without passing judgement on their cultural heritage. We initiate dialogue and provide a critical platform -a popup space for artist to mature. Curated Exhibitions: National Young Arts Foundation, Redline Contemporary Art Space, the Univ.of Miami Gallery, The Corcoran Museum of Art, The Harvey B. Gantt Center, The Miami Design District, Sarasota Art Museum, and The GreenSpace. International Cultural Exchanges in Bermuda, Suriname, Panama, Belize, Jamaica, Antigua and Aruba. We Create Zoom education sessions and podcasts to expose the various talents and exhibitions. We moderate complex topics with artists and support the fundraising of our peers. We curate speakers panels and populate the DVCAI archive at the Special Collections of the Univ of Miami and dLOC at the Univ of Florida. 2025 is our 29th anniversary
$675,562 spent$808,985 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $675,562.
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 $57k to $458k (+700%).
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 49% · 2019 41% · 2020 29% · 2021 10% · 2022 23% · 2023 22% · 2024 25% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Andrea Orane
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $22k → $554k.
3 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR’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
DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
35% 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 DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 81% · 2022 42% · 2023 22% — 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
50% of DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $428k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR: 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 DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR?
- DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR (Florida) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,801,387 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($950,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,801,387 in grants to DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $950,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIASPORA VIBE CULTURAL ARTS INCUBATOR find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 17 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing