Nevada · Nonprofit
DO & BE ARTS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE
DO & BE ARTS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE (Nevada) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $800,086 to it, the largest being OPPORTUNITY 180 ($800,086). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $391k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $800k
- Net assets
- $56k
What Do & Be Arts Academy of Excellence does
Mission
Do & Be Arts Academy of Excellence's mission is to cultivate creativity, become change-makers, achieve academic excellence, and broaden their perspectives through providing quality arts education for k-8th grade students in las vegas, nv. Do & Be Arts Academy of Excellence gives students a space to discover, understand, and use their voice. We do this by providing a transformative arts-integrated curriculum rooted in academics. This curriculum teaches history, self-discovery, cultural awareness, and behvior therapy. Students will gain a deeper knowledge of their importance and understand the role they play in their community and the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our primary program is to achieve three essential goals. 1. Academic proficiency - students will show high levels of growth and achieve 85% of mastery on math, ela, writing, social studies, and science grade-level assessments. Students will show grade-level growth or beyond on the beginning, middle, and end of year nwea map assessments. 2. Performing arts excellence - students will show growth on their pre and post-teatre music, dance, visual arts, and film/media assessments completed each quarter. Students will score 85% or higher on their theatre, music, dance, visual arts, and film/media post-assessments. Students will perform in 1 or more shows during each school year. 3. Project-based learning - students will complete 2 project-based learning during the school year. After each project-based learning, students will score 85% or higher on dbae's project-based learning rubric that assesses collaboration, innovation, critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication.
$88,540 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $88,540.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $150k to $574k (+284%).
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: 2024 66% · 2025 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of DO & BE ARTS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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.
From the IRS filings of DO & BE ARTS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE’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.
Where its funders are
100% of DO & BE ARTS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE's grant income comes from Nevada funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
DO & BE ARTS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE has grown faster 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 DO & BE ARTS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE
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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
31% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DO & BE ARTS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE: 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 DO & BE ARTS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE?
- DO & BE ARTS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE (Nevada) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $800,086 to it, the largest being OPPORTUNITY 180 ($800,086). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DO & BE ARTS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $800,086 in grants to DO & BE ARTS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DO & BE ARTS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE?
- OPPORTUNITY 180 is the largest funder on record, with $800,086 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DO & BE ARTS ACADEMY OF EXCELLENCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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