Rhode Island · Nonprofit
Dirt Palace Public Projects
Dirt Palace Public Projects (Rhode Island) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $709,280 to it, the largest being THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC ($575,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $486k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $709k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Dirt Palace Public Projects does
Mission
To enhance the cultural life of the olneyville neighborhood of providence rhode island by producing public arts exhibitions facilitating artist residencies and building relationships between artists educators and the community at large through educational events focused on street-side public displays as well as lectures artist talks and workshops. To create opportunities for female-identified artists and other people historically marginalized within the arts.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Dirt Palace Public Projects runs an artist residency program at 14 olneyville square in providence. Dirt palace classic residencies offer artists affordable live work studio space with access to our media based facilities - printshop wood shop sculpture studio music performance practice space. Resident artists pay rents and perform about 20 hours per month in studio management duties in exchange for a minimum 1 year artist residency. 5 artists participated in this program in 2024.
$72,085 spent$30,967 earned by the program12% of program spendingDirt Palace Public Projects facilitates its wedding cake house residencies program at 514 broadway. This program offers project based residencies with a focus on midcareer artists. Residencies give artists the space and time to work on projects. Each residency has a public component. There are no fees for artists to attend and some meals are covered. In 2024 one of these residencies was focused on artists who are parents and their children and one residency was focused on artists who are caregivers. This program hosted 43 artists and 6 youth and the public components showcased their work to 200 audience members.
$80,704 spent14% of program spendingIn 2020 Dirt Palace Public Projects partnered with providence college galleries to launch the interlace grant fund a re-granting program supported by the andy warhol foundation. In 2024 interlace awarded $10,550 in emergency relief grants to 42 providence area artists. Interlace also continued its project grant fund which awarded 9 $6000 artist project grants for a total of $54,000.
$302,175 spentof which $239,628 as grants51% of program spendingDirt Palace Public Projects facilitates exhibitions at the wedding cake house wch located at 514 broadway which are accessible via public events and tours as well as public artworks on the grounds which are viewable 24 hours a day seven days a week. In 2021 we launched an exhibition in 514 broadway with 3 artists who had photographed the wedding cake house before our renovation. This exhibition continued to be on view in 2024. Public sculptures installed between 2019 - 2023 continued to be viewable from the grounds and street. 8 poets were featured on our word shelter sign over the course of the year. This sign showcases the poetry of a different poet every 6 weeks on the grounds of 514 broadway facing the bus stop.
$14,453 spent$19,868 earned by the program2% of program spendingDirt Palace Public Projects facilitates the storefront window gallery located at 14 olneyville square providence. The storefront window gallery is a public art exhibition space with a 6 week rotation of artist installations. 8 artists exhibited in the gallery in 2024. The exhibition is visible to the general public in olneyville square 24 hours a day seven days a week. In conjunction with each art installation we produced an interview with the artist for our blog.
$8,279 spent1% of program spendingDirt palace public operated its wedding cake house bnb audience program which allows travelers to connect with artists and exhibitions through short term rentals at 514 broadway.
$109,762 spent$178,710 earned by the program19% of program spendingDirt Palace Public Projects facilitates the print shop at 14 olneyville square. The print shop includes screen print and letterpress facilities. The shop is run in collaboration with the dirt palace collaborative. Members of the collaborative have free access to the shop. Outside artists pay a fee to use the print shop.
$164 spent$129 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $587,622.
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 2018 to 2019, from $971k to $1.5M (+50%).
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: 2017 52% · 2018 66% · 2019 56% · 2020 29% · 2021 52% · 2022 32% · 2023 52% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
49% of Dirt Palace Public Projects’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 8 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
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $21k → $138k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Dirt Palace Public Projects’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
Dirt Palace Public Projects leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 73% · 2021 85% · 2022 79% · 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
Dirt Palace Public Projects draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Dirt Palace Public Projects is better cushioned than half 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
Government funding Dirt Palace Public Projects receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Dirt Palace Public Projects
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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 Dirt Palace Public Projects: 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 Dirt Palace Public Projects?
- Dirt Palace Public Projects (Rhode Island) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $709,280 to it, the largest being THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC ($575,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dirt Palace Public Projects have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $709,280 in grants to Dirt Palace Public Projects, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dirt Palace Public Projects?
- THE ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC is the largest funder on record, with $575,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dirt Palace Public Projects find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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